+
+.. ========================
+.. * * * GUILIN * * *
+.. ========================
+
+Version: 7.0.0
+--------------
+
+:Release Date: 2020-12-03 (Guilin Release)
+
+New features
+============
+
+Artifacts released:
+
+.. csv-table::
+ :header: "Repository", "Java Artifact", "Docker Image (if applicable)"
+ :widths: 15,10,10
+
+ "policy/parent", "3.2.0", ""
+ "policy/common", "1.7.1", ""
+ "policy/models", "2.3.5", ""
+ "policy/api", "2.3.3", "onap/policy-api:2.3.3"
+ "policy/pap", "2.3.3", "onap/policy-pap:2.3.3"
+ "policy/drools-pdp", "1.7.4", "onap/policy-drools:1.7.4"
+ "policy/apex-pdp", "2.4.4", "onap/policy-apex-pdp:2.4.4"
+ "policy/xacml-pdp", "2.3.3", "onap/policy-xacml-pdp:2.3.3"
+ "policy/drools-applications", "1.7.5", "onap/policy-pdpd-cl:1.7.5"
+ "policy/distribution", "2.4.3", "onap/policy-distribution:2.4.3"
+ "policy/docker", "2.1.1", "onap/policy-jdk-alpine:2.1.1, onap/policy-jre-alpine:2.1.1"
+
+Key Updates
+===========
+
+* Kubernetes integration
+ - All components return with non-zero exit code in case of application failure
+ - All components log to standard out (i.e., k8s logs) by default
+ - Continue to write log files inside individual pods, as well
+* Multi-tenancy
+ - Basic initial support using the existing features
+* E2E Network Slicing
+ - Added ModifyNSSI operation to SO actor
+* Consolidated health check
+ - Indicate failure if there aren’t enough PDPs registered
+* Legacy operational policies
+ - Removed from all components
+* OOM helm charts refactoring
+ - Name standardization
+ - Automated certificate generation
+* Actor Model
+ - Support various use cases and provide more flexibility to Policy Designers
+ - Reintroduced the "usecases" controller into drools-pdp, supporting the use cases
+ under the revised actor architecture
+* Guard Application
+ - Support policy filtering
+* Matchable Application
+ - Support for ONAP or 3rd party components to create matchable policy types out of the box
+* Policy Lifecycle & Administration API
+ - Query/Delete by policy name & version without policy type
+* Apex-PDP enhancements
+ - Support multiple event & response types coming from a single endpoint
+ - Standalone installation now supports Tosca-based policies
+ - Legacy policy format has been removed
+ - Support chaining/handling of gRPC failure responses
+* Policy Distribution
+ - HPA decoders & related classes have been removed
+* Policy Engine
+ - Deprecated
+
+Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
+=========================================
+
+System Limitations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The policy API component requires a fresh new database when migrating to the guilin release.
+Therefore, upgrades require a fresh new database installation.
+Please see the
+`Installing or Upgrading Policy <https://onap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submodules/policy/parent.git/docs/installation/oom.html#installing-or-upgrading-policy>`__ section for appropriate procedures.
+
+Known Vulnerabilities
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* `POLICY-2463 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/POLICY-2463>`_ - In APEX Policy javascript task logic, JSON.stringify causing stackoverflow exceptions
+
+Workarounds
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+* `POLICY-2463 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/POLICY-2463>`_ - Use the stringify method of the execution context
+
+Security Notes
+==============
+
+* `POLICY-2878 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/POLICY-2878>`_ - Dependency upgrades
+ - Upgrade com.fasterxml.jackson to 2.11.1
+* `POLICY-2387 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/POLICY-2387>`_ - Dependency upgrades
+ - Upgrade org.json to 20200518
+ - Upgrade com.google.re2j to 1.4
+ - Upgrade com.thoughtworks.xstream to 1.4.12
+ - Upgrade org.eclipse.persistence to 2.2.1
+ - Upgrade org.apache.httpcomponents to 4.5.12
+ - Upgrade org.projectlombok to 1.18.12
+ - Upgrade org.slf4j to 1.7.30
+ - Upgrade org.codehaus.plexus to 3.3.0
+ - Upgrade com.h2database to 1.4.200
+ - Upgrade io.cucumber to 6.1.2
+ - Upgrade org.assertj to 3.16.1
+ - Upgrade com.openpojo to 0.8.13
+ - Upgrade org.mockito to 3.3.3
+ - Upgrade org.awaitility to 4.0.3
+ - Upgrade org.onap.aaf.authz to 2.1.21
+* `POLICY-2668 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/POLICY-2668>`_ - Dependency upgrades
+ - Upgrade org.java-websocket to 1.5.1
+* `POLICY-2623 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/POLICY-2623>`_ - Remove log4j dependency
+* `POLICY-1996 <https://jira.onap.org/browse/POLICY-1996>`_ - Dependency upgrades
+ - Upgrade org.onap.dmaap.messagerouter.dmaapclient to 1.1.11
+
+
+References
+==========
+
+For more information on the ONAP Frankfurt release, please see:
+
+#. `ONAP Home Page`_
+#. `ONAP Documentation`_
+#. `ONAP Release Downloads`_
+#. `ONAP Wiki Page`_
+
+
+.. _`ONAP Home Page`: https://www.onap.org
+.. _`ONAP Wiki Page`: https://wiki.onap.org
+.. _`ONAP Documentation`: https://docs.onap.org
+.. _`ONAP Release Downloads`: https://git.onap.org
+
+Quick Links:
+ - `POLICY project page`_
+ - `Passing Badge information for POLICY`_
+