Sonic Roadmap Planning

There will be periodic SONiC Roadmap planning sessions. These will define the new capabilities to be delivered by the SONiC project in its next release. It's expected that new feature contributions will be aligned with the roadmap.

Pull requests for features that are not in the roadmap may not be accepted into the project. This is to help ensure the project can produce a stable, reliable release and make progress.

Release	Release Date	SAI version	Features Included
SONiC.201705	5/15/2017	0.9.4	BGP
			ECMP
			LAG
			LLDP
			QoS - ECN
			QoS - RDMA
			Priority Flow Control
			WRED
			COS
			SNMP
			Syslog
			Sysdump
			NTP
			COPP
			DHCP Relay Agent
			SONiC to SONiC upgrade
			Multiple Images support
			One Image
SONiC.201709	9/15/2017	0.9.4	VLAN
			ACL permit/deny
			IPv6
			Tunnel Decap
			Mirroring
			Post Speed Setting
			BGP Graceful restart helper
			BGP MP
SONiC.201712	12/15/2017	1.0	Fast Reload
			SONiC Support SAI 1.0
			TACACS+
			LACP Fallback
			MTU Setting
			Vlan Trunk
			Static Port breakout1
			Dynamic ACL Upgrade
			SWSS Unit Test Framework
			CobfigDB framework
SONiC.201803	03/15/18	1.2
			Critical Resource Monitoring
			MAC Aging
			IPv6 ACL
			BGP/Neighbor-down fib-accelerate
			PFC WD
SONiC.201807	07/30/18	1.3
			gRPC
			Dtel support
			SONiC Architecture and User Manual (Documentation)
			Sensor transceiver monitoring
			LLDP extended MIB: lldpremtable, lldplocporttable, lldpremmanaddrtable, lldplocmanaddrtable, lldplocporttable, lldpLocalSystemData
SONiC.201811	11/30/18	1.3	Release Note
			Debian Kernel Upgrade to 4.9
			Warm Reboot
			Incremental Config (IP, LAG, Port shut/unshut)
			Asymmetric PFC
			PFC Watermark
			Routing Stack Graceful Restart
			Basic VRF and L3 VXLAN
SONiC.201904	04/30/2019	1.4	Release Note
			FRR as default routing stack
			Upgrade each docker to stretch version
			Upgrade docker engine to 18.09
			Everflow V2 - IPV4/IPv6 Portion 2.0
			Egress ACL bug fix and ACL CLI enhancement
			L3 RIF counter support
			PMon Refactoring
			BGP-EVPN support(type 5), (related HLD Fpmsyncd,Vxlanmgr,template)
			Transceiver parameter tuning PR pending on CR sign off
SONiC.201911	10/30/2019	1.5	Progress Tracking       Release Notes
			ZTP - design review in progress
			Mgmt VRF
			sFlow
			L3 perf enhancement
			VRF
			Platform test
			SSD diagnostic tolling
			Management Framework
			Multi-DB optimization-Part 1
			Sub-port support
			Build time improvements
			Egress mirroring and ACL action support check via SAI
			Configurable drop counters
			Log analyzer to pytest
			HW resource monitor
			NAT
			ONIE FW tools - bios & cpld
SONiC.202006	06/30/2020	SAI1.6.3	Progress Tracking, Release Note
			Build Improvements
			Bulk API for route
			D-Bus to Host Communications
			Debian 10 upgrade, base image,driver
			Dynamic port break
			Egress shaping (port, queue)
			FW utils extension: SSD upgrade
			Getting docker ready for Debian 10
			Platform APIs move to new APIs * - Continuation
			Port Mirroring
			Porting mVRF support to Debian 10
			Proxy ARP
			Pytest 100% moved from ansible to Pytest
			SPytest
			Thermal control
SONiC.202012	12/31/2020	SAI 1.7.1	Progress Tracking, Release Note
			Consistent ECMP support (fine grain ECMP)
			Console Support for SONiC (Hardware)
			Console Support for SONiC (SSH forwarding)
			Container warm restart (BGP/TeamD/SWSS/SyncD)
			CoPP Config/Management
			Distributed forwarding in a VOQ architecture HLD
			Dynamic headroom calculation
			Enable synchornous SAI APIs (error handling)
			EVPN/VXLAN
			FRR BGP NBI
			Gearbox
			Kubernetes (docker to be controlled by Kubernetes)
			Management Framework (Phase 2)
			Merge common lib for C++ and python (SWSS common lib)
			Move from Python2->python3
			Multi-ASIC
			Multi-DB enhancement-Part 2
			ONIE FW tools CPLD, BIOS, SSD, Firmware upgrade [Uniform Tool]
			PDDF advance to SONiC Platform 2.0, BMC
			SONiC entity MIB extensions
			Support hardware reboot/reload reason (Streaming Telemetry)
			System health and system LED
SONiC.202106	06/30/2021	SAI 1.8.1	Progress Tracking, Release Note
			Add FRR running configuration to tech support
			Broadcom silicon common config
			Dynamic policy based hashing
			Enable/Disable auto negotiation and speed setting with number of lanes
			Error handling (swss)
			Inband mgmt VRF
			IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered
			MC-LAG (L2)
			PCIe Monitoring
			PDK - Platform Development Environment
			RADIUS AAA
			SONiC for MPLS Dataplane
			Telemetry for Multi-ASIC
			TPID config support
			Enhanced xcrvd SFP error flow HLD
			Entity sensor MIB extension
SONiC.202111	11/30/2021	SAI 1.9.1	Progress Tracking
			ACL orch redesign
			App extension CLI generation tool
			Automatic tech support and core dump creation
			Better route scalability with multiple next-hops
			Class-Based Forwarding
			CLI level authorization
			DHCP support IPv6
			Dynamic Policy Based Hashing
			Dynamic port breakout
			EXP to TC QoS maps
			EVPN VXLAN for platforms using P2MP tunnel based L2 forwarding
			Handle port config change on fly in xcvrd
			Host interface trap counter
			L2 functional and performance enhancements
			New branch creation for Debian11
			One line command to extract multiple DBs info of a SONiC component - Debug dump utility
			Overlay ECMP
			Overlay ECMP - BFD offload
			PDK - Platform Development Environment
			PINS (P4 Integrated Network Stack)
			Reclaim reserved buffer for unused ports
			Routed sub-interface naming convention
			SONiC for MPLS Dataplane
			SRv6 support (Cntd)
			Support for passing IS-IS, LDP and MicroBFD packets to CPU
			Upgrade SONiC init flow
			VXLAN src port configuration
SONiC.202205	05/31/2022	TBD	Progress Tracking
			NVGRE/GRE
			System with zero port support
			Align crmorch with sai_object_type_get_availability
			Move Nvidia syncd and pmon to debian11
			Dynamic Policy Based Hashing (edit flow)
			counter delay via config_db and not via systemd
			Route Flow counters (based on generic counters)
			hostcfgd Redesign-split hostcfgd into multiple services
			Password Hardening
			Queue statistics based on queue configurations and not max
			Add system date row to ‘show version’
			Command for showing specific MAC from DB
			Event-mgmt Infra
			Klish CLI for show-tech support
			Storm Control (BUM)
			CMIS Diagnostics
			System Ready Enhancements
			SONiC fanout support
			100% SONiC YANG model
			Deprecating Python2 platform daemons
			MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case
			SONiC management repo  Python3 compliance
			Active Active ToRs
			Vxlan enhancement
			BGP config incremental update
			Symcrypt integration with OpenSSL
			Sorted next hop ECMP
			400G DR support
			ACL UDF
			Streaming Telemetry support for Syslog
			FRR version update from 7.5 to 8.1
			ACMS and Restful API for Arista 7060
			PINS enhancement
			SAG
			L2 Dot1Q tunneling support
			VLAN Stacking
			Config Reload Enhancement: Introduce the Transaction Mechanism
			EVPN-MH Phase #1
			Further extensions and uses of application extension framework
			MPLS scalability enhancement in SAI and SWSS
			Global setting to allow IPv6 link-local neighbours to always be programmed
			Docker image on Bulleyes
			Platform support for Edgecore AS4630
			Platform support for Edgecore AS7326
			Platform support for Edgecore AS7816
			Platform support for Edgecore AS5835
			PINS SAI Extensions
			PINS SAI.P4 enhancements for Layer2 support and VxLAN
			SRv6 policy steering w/ FRR protocols integration
			SRv6 sBFD, DT46
			DASH – SAI PTF extension for SmartNIC
			SONiC with P4 DPDK (PNA architecture) – Basic SoftSwitch with DPDK
			Deterministic interface Link bring-up
Backlog
			AAA improvement
			ACL enhancements: Policing, DHCP/PCP remark, L2
			ACL UDF
			Align crmorch with sai_object_type_get_availability
			ARP Refresh
			App extension with warmboot awareness
			App extension with Orchagent/SWSS
			BGP Add Path
			BGP ExtComm
			BGP Link bandwidth ExtComm
			BFD SW 100ms interval from FRR
			Chassis infrastructure, T2 topologies and sample Testcases converted
			CMIS Diagnostics
			CPU Queues
			Distributed VOQ architecture HLD
			Deprecating Python2 platform daemons
			DHCP relay IPv6 support
			DPB Reconcile
			Dynamic CoPP reconcile
			Enabling IS-IS in the dataplane
			Extending Entphysicaltable MIB table
			Extend FW debug info in sysdump
			Event-mgmt Infra
			Everflow Support on VOQ Chassis
			Fabric Port support for SONiC
			Flow-based Services (incl. packet DSCP remark)
			Gearbox part 2
			Generic counters (Flow counters)
			Inband port support for Chassis
			Kernel programming performance enhancement
			Klish CLI for show-tech support
			Kubernetes enhancements
			LAG Support for Chassis
			Link Training
			L2 Dot1Q tunneling support
			libebpf support and usage
			MACSec support in Chassis
			MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case
			Management Framework RBAC
			Media Enhancements (Media Information & Settings)
			Mgmt FW Phase 3
			MultiDB reconcile
			NVGRE/GRE
			Platform Monitoring for Chassis systems
			Routing/BGP for Chassis
			Routed sub-interface reconcile
			RPVST+
			SAG
			Sample Rate on mirror
			Segment Routing support in SONiC
			Sflow with remote collector
			Show running enhancement
			SNMPd Enhancements
			SONiC shared headroom - enhanced configuration
			SONiC new polling counters for counters which has extend CPU req.
			SONiC app extension (w/o orchagent)
			SONiC fanout support
			SONiC IPSEC support
			SONiC NAT Scaling
			100% SONiC YANG model
			Static Anycast Gateway
			Storm Control (BUM)
			STP/PVST
			System Ready Enhancements
			System with zero port support
			TDR support for 1G Cu SFP
			Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure
			Telemetry for Chassis
			Telemetry for BGP
			(Test) Testbed v2
			(Test) Upgrade to Python3 compliance
			(Test) Ansible 2.10 upgrade
			Thresholds (statistics)
			V4/V6 L3 ACL optimization
			VoQ Chassis Support in SONiC
			VNET ping tool to debug VNET configuration
			UI Content (UMF client)

NOTE

• Platform APIs will be backwards compatible in 201908, will be cut over to new APIs in the next release