Release Progress Tracking 202012

202106 Features Tracking

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Feature	HLD Review Date	Owner	Code Review Owner	Code Review Date	Code PR Status	SAI Change	Priority/Conf (High/Low)
Telemetry for Multi-ASIC		MSFT	Intel		Single telemetry sever to aggregate data from multiple Redis DB	TBD
Dynamic policy based hashing	04/13/2021	Nvidia/MSFT	MSFT/Aviz	5/15/21	Hash packets on custom fields	Yes	High
DHCP relay IPv6 support	03/30/2021	Nvidia	BRCM	Update by 4/20	Currently DHCP relay supports only IPv4. The idea is to extend the support to IPv6 and it should work for both as the same time. Also, currently DHCP relay is enabled only based on the Type in the METADATA and it must be ‘ToRRouter’. We will remove this restriction and will integrate it with copp manager so user can decide if to have DHCP relay or not regardless of the device type	No	High
App extension with Orchagent/SWSS		Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	Need Info	2nd phase of the application extension: dynamically adds logic to swss/orchagent so additional use applications can be developers developed based on SONiC application extension infrastructure. For example: dynamic policy based hashing Feature on hold for further calcification	No	Low
App extension CLI generation tool	4/16/21	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	5/12/21	2nd phase of the application extension: a CLI generation tool for application extension programs. An improvements following the current infra available	No	High
App extension with warmboot awareness	Included in #682	Nvidia	BRCM/ MSFT	4/30/21	2nd phase of the application extension: warmboot awareness and integration of an application extension that requires warmboot support		High
Add FRR running configuration to tech support	N/A(email update)	Nvidia	BRCM	4/30/21	Improve the FRR information in the tech support following the below github issue 5067	No	High
Enable/Disable auto negotiation and speed setting with number of lanes	1/19/2021	Nvidia	BRCM/ Dell/ Intel [Need platform vendor reviewers]	March/ 4/30/21	Add new CLIs to enable/disable auto negotiation per interface as well as setting the number of lanes per requested speed.	SAI API is already part of 1.7	High
TPID config support SONiC TPID Configuration Support by gechiang · Pull Request #681	Oct-20	MSFT	Nvidia- tbd/ BRCM	Need Info	Allow us to covert our PTF fanout switches to run SONiC OS	Yes	High
Deprecating Python2 platform daemons	No HLD	MSFT [Vendors will have to support]	Nvidia-tbd	Need Info	All platform daemons will run using Python 3. Python 2 support  will be removed. Vendors must build and install Python 3 sonic-platform packages. N/A – No HLD. Some vendors are already building/installing Python 3 sonic-platform packages, so there are a number of examples	N/A
MACSec support in Chassis	03/30/2021	MSFT	BRCM/ Juniper		403, 193, 5700, 18, 22, 434, 1475, 1474, 713, 714, 715,716, 717, 719, 704, 684, 722 & 755 - Merged 26 - Open
MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case	3/30/2021	MSFT	BRCM/ Juniper		MACsec can enable primary and fallback Connectivity Association Keys(CAK) at a same time. Meanwhile the primary and fallback key can be switched or replaced without any outage.	No
Error handling (swss)	3/19/2021	MSFT	Nvidia/ BRCM		Handle SAI failures in orchagent. [Ques: feature was discussed before, will we have new HLD or existing HLD?]	No
SONiC YANG model	4/30/2021	MSFT	MSFT/ YANG WG		Handle SAI failures in orchagent. [Ques: feature was discussed before, will we have new HLD or existing HLD?]	No