+Increased Cloud Native Functionality
+....................................
+The Honolulu release has important updates to support cloud native network
+functions (CNF). The functionality includes configuration of Helm based CNFs
+and seamless day 1, 2 operations. The Configuration API allows a user to
+create, modify and delete Kubernetes (K8s) resource templates and their base
+parameters and the Profile API allows for sophisticated day 0 configuration.
+The Query API gathers filtered status of the CNF and the HealthCheck API
+executes dedicated health check jobs to verify the status of a CNF. This new
+functionality is implemented in the Controller Design Studio (CDS) component
+using dedicated templates called Controller Blueprint Archives (CBA).
+In addition, there is Swagger documentation for the API of the K8s plugin
+component in the MutliCloud project.
+
+Deeper 5G Support
+.................
+There is a significant set of new functionality around end-to-end 5G network
+slicing in the Honolulu release. This release includes three internal Network
+Slice Subnet Management Function (NSSMF) components for RAN, core, and
+transport domains. External NSSMFs continue to be supported for RAN and core.
+Next, slice optimization continues to be an area of ongoing effort with closed
+loop automation and intelligent slicing testing. There are also enhancements in
+NST, NSI, and NSSI selection in the OOF project and A&AI includes schema
+changes to accommodate network and transport slicing.
+
+In addition, the ExtAPI project now included Enhanced Service Ordering for
+additional service types and the UUI graphical user interface has improved
+slicing support. The VID graphical user has support for PNF plug-and-play
+allowing operators to interact with PNFs via VID. In addition, there is better
+compliance to standards such as 3GPP TS28.540/541 5G NRM driven xNF models in
+ONAP. Finally the OOF SON functionality supports offline trained ML-models
+providing additional inputs for Physical Cell Identity (PCI) optimization.
+DCAE includes a new KPI microservice.
+
+Configuration Persistence Service
+.................................
+Another key 5G related initiative is the new Configuration Persistence Service
+(CPS) module that allows ONAP projects to store persistent state defined by
+YANG models, deploy YANG models at runtime, and share access to configuration
+management data.
+
+Further O-RAN Integration
+.........................
+A key enhancement in the Honolulu release was increased support for the O-RAN
+A1 standard that is implemented in the CCSDK and SDN-C projects. The O-RAN A1
+interface provides a flexible way for RAN operators to manage wide area RAN
+network optimization reducing capex investment needs. Both the enhanced A1
+interface controller and A1 policy capabilities are now usable in ONAP with a
+Near-Real-Time Radio Intelligent Controller (nRTRIC). This functionality is
+also used downstream in O-RAN-Source Community (OSC) Non-RealTime RIC
+(NONRTRIC) project, strengthening alignment between ONAP & OSC. In addition,
+the DCAE project includes VES 7.2 integration that improves integration with
+both O-RAN and 3GPP. Finally, there is a new CPS interface to query RAN
+configuration data.
+
+Expanded Modularity
+...................
+Modularity has been an important topic in ONAP to allow users to pick and
+choose the components they need for their specific use case and Honolulu
+continues to advance modularity. DCAE now simplifies microservice deployment
+via Helm charts.
+
+Service Design
+..............
+
+- Includes increased support for ETSI standards such as SOL001, SOL004, and
+ SOL007 and allows users to choose unlicensed or externally licensed xNFs.
+- Vendor License Model is now optional
+- SDC distribution status report enhanced
+
+Inventory
+.........
+
+- A&AI includes support for multi tenancy.
+- Model updates for CCVPN Transport Slicing and Network Slicing
+- GraphGraph POC enhanced for schema visualization and visual model generation
+- Sparky UI updates including Browse, Specialized Search, BYOQ, and BYOQ
+ Builder Views
+
+ONAP Operations Manager
+.......................
+
+- Portal-Cassandra image updated to Bitnami, supporting IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack
+- CMPv2 external issuer implemented which extends Cert-Manager with ability to
+ enroll X.509 certificates from CMPv2 servers
+- New version for MariaDB Galera using Bitnami image, supporting IPv4/IPv6 Dual
+ Stack
+- Support of Helm v3.4 and Helm v3.5