+Guilin Maintenance Release 7.0.1 delivered a number of fixes and updates
+across the following projects:
+
+ - AAI - bug fixes and certificate update
+ - CCSDK - bug fixes and certificate update
+ - DCAEGEN2 - bug fixes
+ - DMaaP - bug fixes
+ - DOC - restructure user guides section and added tutorials
+ - Integration - new docker for robot framework
+ - Music - certificate update
+ - MSB - bug fixes
+ - OOM - docker improvement
+ - SDNC - bug fixes
+ - SO - bug fixes
+ - VID - certificate update
+
+Details on the specific Jira tickets addressed by each project can be found in
+the component specific Release Notes: :ref:`release notes<doc-releaserepos>`
+
+
+Guilin Major Release 7.0.0
+==========================
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Project** | Open Network Automation Platform |
+| | (ONAP) |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Release name** | Guilin |
+| | |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Release version** | 7.0.0 |
+| | |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Release date** | December 3rd 2020 |
+| | |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Guilin Features
+===============
+ONAP Guilin focusses on:
+
+* 5G network automation and services such as network slicing through RAN, core
+ and transport
+* deepening O-RAN Software Community integration along with other leading SDOs
+* seamless orchestration of CNFs, VNFs and PNFs
+* and bringing several new ONAP Blueprint and docs updates.
+
+5G Network Slicing
+------------------
+In the industry evolution toward 5G networks, Guilin expands upon the
+end-to-end network slicing introduced with Frankfurt with the addition of RAN,
+core, and transport through Network Slice Subnet Management Function (NSSMF)
+which completes functionality with the Communication Service Management
+Function (CSMF) and Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) components. In
+addition to the NSSMF included in Guilin, ONAP supports an external RAN NSSMF.
+Next, the RAN domain also has initial support for a simple closed control loop
+and machine learning (ML) for intelligent slicing.
+
+ONAP/O-RAN Alignment
+--------------------
+The release also marks greater ONAP + O-RAN Software Community harmonization by
+adding support for the A1 interface (O-RAN A1-AP v1.1), adding to the existing
+O1 support. ONAP can now manage multiple A1 targets with different versions and
+includes a A1 Policy Management Service that interacts with the Near Real-Time
+RIC\19s policy instances and provides a transient cache for these policies.
+
+CNF, VNF and PNF integration
+----------------------------
+Guilin contains a large number of new features classified into design time,
+run time, and ONAP operations to optimize the self-serve control loop and
+dashboard, make it easier to reuse existing models, make xNF pre-onboarding and
+onboarding easier, speed up UI development, and more. For Documentation
+(Usability), ONAP documentation made improvements such as setting up ONAP,
+Platform Operations, Service Design and Deployment, and User Guides. Specific
+to cloud native, The Service Design & Creation (SDC) project, the unified
+design time tool, now supports Helm types to natively support Cloud Native
+Network Functions (CNF).
+
+Enhancements in ONAP Blueprints
+-------------------------------
+Other enhancements to the ONAP Blueprints includes a new Standard Defined VNF
+Event Stream (VES) event for Fault Management (FM) / Performance Management
+(PM) Data Collection, the first use of Machine Learning in Self-Organizing
+Networks (SON), and greater support for 5G RAN Wireless Network Resource Model
+(NRM) with Service Modeling and Definition and Intent Based Network supporting
+intent-drive 5G slice creation. The Cross Domain and Cross Layer VPN (CC-VPN)
+includes transport slicing and the MDONS (Multi-Domain Optical Network Service
+) has been extended.
+
+Functional Requirements
+-----------------------
+The following requirements have been introduced in the Guilin Release:
+
+xNF Integration
+...............
+
+- ONAP CNF orchestration - Enhancements
+- Extension of PNF Pre-onboarding/onboarding
+- Enhancements for PNF Plug & Play'
+- xNF License Management
+
+Lifecycle Management
+....................
+
+- 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
+
+Security
+........
+
+- CMPv2 Enhancements
+
+Standard alignment
+..................
+
+- ETSI-Alignment for Guilin
+- ONAP/3GPP & O-RAN Alignment-Standards Defined Notifications over VES
+- Extend ORAN A1 Adapter and add A1 Policy Management
+
+NFV testing Automatic Platform
+...............................
+
+- Test Result Auto Analysis & Certification
+- Test Task Auto Execution
+- Test Environment Auto Deploy
+- Test Topology Auto Design
+
+Non-Functional Requirements
+---------------------------
+The following 'non-functional' requirements have been introduced in the Guilin
+Release:
+
+Best Practice
+.............
+
+- ONAP shall use STDOUT for logs collection
+- IPv4/IPv6 dual stack support in ONAP (Guilin)
+- Containers must crash properly when a failure occurs
+- Containers must have no more than one main process
+- Application config should be fully prepared before starting the
+ application container
+- No root (superuser) access to database from application container
+
+Code Quality
+............
+
+- Each ONAP project shall improve its CII Badging score by improving input
+ validation and documenting it in their CII Badging site
+- Each ONAP project shall define code coverage improvements and achieve at
+ least 55% code coverage
+
+Security
+........
+
+- ONAP must complete update of the Python language (from 2.7 -> 3.8)
+- ONAP must complete update of the java language (from v8 -> v11)
+- All containers must run as non-root user
+- Continue hardcoded passwords removal
+- Flow management must be activated for ONAP.
+- Each project will update the vulnerable direct dependencies in their code
+ base
+
+Tests
+.....
+
+- More tests integrated in CI/CD but enhancements expected in Honolulu
+- ONAP shall increase the number of Docker Benchmark tests
+
+Others
+......
+
+- ONAP to support Multi - tenancy