Release TeraFlowSDN 4.0

Release Notes:

Context:

• Multiple extensions for logical inventory, optical layer, and QKD nodes

Device:

• Enhanced gNMI/OpenConfig driver to increase performance using libyang
• Optical NetConf driver now discovers underlying equipment ports and resources
• Optical NetConf driver provides support for transponders and multi-granular optical nodes
• New driver to manage QKD nodes
• Support to manage device's logical inventory

Optical Controller:

• Extended to support optical bands and lightpaths

NBI:

• Export hardware, L2 and L3 inventory of network devices through IETF Inventory YANG data model
• Added support for configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs) in network devices
• Added missing create/update/delete methods in the TFS API

WebUI:

• Added new sections and extensions to manage QKD services and applications
• Added new sections and extensions to manage optical resources
• New automatic converter of IETF slice JSON descriptors to TFS slice

Quantum Key Distribution Framework:

• New framework able to onboard and control QKD nodes, services and applications
• New QKD Application Registry able to manage services and applications
• Extensions on multiple components in support for QKD

Monitoring-Telemetry-Automation Framework:

• New scalable and extensible framework
• Data collection externalized to new Telemetry component
• Data analytics especialized to new Analytics component
• Analytics component supports Apache Spark and Dask as backends
• New KPI Descriptor and Value manager components
• New Automation component to manage the overall framework
• Automation component auto-activates telemetry collection of network equipment ports
• New QoS Profile component to facilitate management of constraints in ZSM-automated services

DLT:

• DLT component has been updated to expose the complete topology
• DLT gateway now works with HyperLedger Fabric v2.4+
• Chaincode for HyperLedger Fabric v2.4+ is provided

Others:

• Stabilized use of MicroK8s v1.29
• Automatic configuration of microservices with LinkerD if the later is installed
• Released a new generic database management framework to facilitater creation of per-component databases
• Kafka is deployed as an alternative to NATS
• Multiple enhanements in CI/CD automated tests
• New integration tests running in CI/CD pipeline
• Updated versions of multiple dependencies
• Multiple smaller enhancements and bug fixes