-xNF Integration
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-- ONAP CNF orchestration - Enhancements
-- Extension of PNF Pre-onboarding/onboarding
-- Enhancements for PNF Plug & Play'
-- xNF License Management
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-Lifecycle Management
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-
-- Policy Based Filtering
-- CLAMP Deployment of Native policies
-- Bulk PM / PM Data Control Extension
-- Support xNF Software Upgrade in association to schema updates
-- Configuration & Persistency Service
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-Security
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-- CMPv2 Enhancements
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-Standard alignment
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-- ETSI-Alignment for Guilin
-- ONAP/3GPP & O-RAN Alignment-Standards Defined Notifications over VES
-- Extend ORAN A1 Adapter and add A1 Policy Management
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-NFV testing Automatic Platform
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-- Test Result Auto Analysis & Certification
-- Test Task Auto Execution
-- Test Environment Auto Deploy
-- Test Topology Auto Design
+Increased Cloud Native Functionality
+....................................
+
+- Improved synchronization of k8s resources after the creation of the CNF.
+ When some change occurs for the CNF in the k8s cluster, k8splugin sends
+ a notification to the cnf-adapter which performs an update of the changes
+ into A&AI.
+- CDS integration with k8splugin
+
+ - The creation of the profile allows the specification of labels and
+ additional k8sresource types to be returned by the status API
+ - Better Configuration API support including rollback, improved deletion
+ of the configuration with or without removal of the configuration
+ resources in the cluster
+ - Creation of the configuration template without a dedicated helm chart
+ which allows for easy update of the override values by configuration API
+ without a need to duplicate configuration template helm chart from the
+ main Helm chart. The configuration template (Helm chart) is taken from
+ the main definition.
+
+- New model for CNF modeling: Application Service Descriptor (ASD) model
+
+E2E Network Slicing
+...................
+
+- CPS Integration with SDN-R for RAN Slice allocate and reconfigure scenarios
+- E2E network Slicing with CPS is completed for allocation and re-use scenarios
+- E2E Closed loop with CPS is functional
+- IBN based closed loop with ML MS (POC) and Config DB is functional
+- Optimization of cm-handle registration with CPS-DMI Plugin to upload yang
+ model
+- CPS Integration Stabilization for RAN Slice activate/deactivate scenarios
+- Addition of call to OOF for allocateNSSI to enable TN NSSI reuse in TN NSSMF
+- Addition of call to OOF for terminateNxi API to deallocate NSSI
+ (without terminating TN NSSI even when NSI is terminated) in TN NSSMF
+- Closed-loop enhancement in CCVPN to support Transport Slicing’s closed-loop
+
+Control Loop evolutions
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+
+- Control Loop in TOSCA LCM Improvement: abstract Automation Composition
+ Management (ACM) logic with a generic Automation Composition definition,
+ isolating Composition logic from ONAP component logic. It elaborates APIs
+ that allow integrate with other design systems as well as 3PP component
+ integration.
+- The current PMSH and TCS control loops are migrated to use an Automation
+ Composition approach. Support for Automation Compositions in SDC is also
+ introduced.
+- A Metadata set allows a global set of metadata containing rules or global
+ parameters that all instances of a certain policy type can use. Metadata
+ sets are introduced in the Policy Framework in the Jakarta release. This
+ means that different rule set implementations can be associated with a
+ policy type, which can be used in appropriate situations.
+- Introduction of Prometheus for monitoring Policy components so that
+ necessary alerts can be easily triggered and possible outages can be
+ avoided in production systems.
+
+ - Expose application level metrics in policy components. An end user can
+ plug in a Prometheus instance and start listening to the metrics exposed
+ by Policy components and either raise alerts or show them on a Grafana
+ dashboard for operations team to keep monitoring the health of the system.
+ - Improve the policy/api and policy/pap readiness probes to handle database
+ failures so that the policy/api and policy/pap kubernetes pods are marked
+ ready only if the Policy database pod is ready.
+ - Provide sample Grafana dashboards for policy metrics
+
+- Migration of Policy Framework components to Springboot to support easier
+ handling, configuration and maintenance.
+- Policy Framework Database Configurability. The Policy Framework can be
+ configured to use any JDBC-compliant RDBMS and configuration files are
+ supplied for the Postgres RDBMS. MariaDB remains the default RDBMS for the
+ Policy Framework in ONAP
+- System Attribute Improvements
+
+ - Transaction boundaries on REST calls are implemented per REST call
+ - JDBC backend uses Spring and Hibernate rather than Eclipselink
+ - All GUIs are now included in the policy/gui microservice
+ - Documentation is rationalized and cleaned up, testing documentation is
+ now complete
+ - Scripts are added to make release of the Policy Framework easier
+
+Fault management
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+
+- DCAE Helm Transformation finalized
+- Topic alignment for DCAE microservices: use standard topics for PM-Mapper,
+ Slice-Analysis and KPI-MS
+
+Extended O-RAN Integration
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+
+- The O-RAN A1 interface (from the CCSDK project) provides a flexible way for
+ RAN operators to manage wide area RAN network optimization
+- Enhanced A1 interface controller and A1 Policy capabilities are now usable
+ by any service provider deploying and using ONAP. This functionality is used
+ downstream in the O-RAN-SC Non-RealTime RIC project
+- The OOF SON project has updated the SDN-R to use O-RAN aligned O1 YANG models
+ and the RAN-Sim to use O-RAN aligned O1 YANG models
+- Convergence on VES message formats for Performance Management,
+ Fault Management, Configuration Management
+
+
+Controllers
+...........
+
+- SDN-C is upgraded to OpenDaylight Phosphorus release
+- Enhancements to CCVPN, Network Slicing, and ONAP A1 Interface
+
+Service Design
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+
+- Improved support for TOSCA features
+- Automation Composition Management model
+- Support for large CSAR via S3 storage
+
+Inventory
+.........
+
+- Schema updated for CCVPN use case mainly enhancing and bug fixes of the Cloud
+ Leased Line (CLL) service
+
+ONAP Operations Manager
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+
+- Introduction of Strimzi Kafka Operator
+- Migration of all Kafka native clients to use Strimzi Apache Kafka.
+- Disable VID, Portal