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+| **Project** | Open Network Automation Platform |
+| | (ONAP) |
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+| **Release name** | Guilin |
+| | |
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+| **Release version** | 7.0.0 |
+| | |
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+| **Release date** | December 3rd 2020 |
+| | |
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+
+Guilin Features
+===============
+ONAP Gulin 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.