Release TeraFlowSDN Controller 6.0

Release Notes:

• #92 (closed): Implement SBI Driver for Nokia SR Linux L2 VPNs through gNMI
• #114 (closed): Integrate management of Network Access Control Lists (ACLs) created through the NBI and forwarded to SBI
• #116 (closed): Updates in Telemetry Backend to support P4 in-band network telemetry
• #161 (closed): Creation of IP link with supporting coherent pluggable to pluggable connection
• #192 (closed): Implement Telemetry Backend Collector gNMI/OpenConfig
• #195 (closed): Integrate QKD tests in TFS CI/CD pipeline
• #267 (closed): Plugin-based Automation service extensions and example P4INTZSMHandler
• #278 (closed): Basic flexgrid lightpath deployment
• #281 (closed): Optical Bandwidth Expansion
• #295 (closed): INT collector launched by the corresponding P4 INT service
• #299 (closed): Modify NBI to Update Slice L3VPN
• #301 (closed): DSCM Pluggables
• #302 (closed): Add test to feature develop during #232 (closed)
• #303 (closed): Add test to feature develop during #234 (closed), related to OSM integration
• #305 (closed): Enhanced NETCONF-OpenConfig SBI Driver for DSCM Pluggables
• #306 (closed): Enhanced RESTCONF-based OpenConfig NBI for DSCM Pluggables
• #309 (closed): Updates in Policy component to support the revised Automation loops
• #310 (closed): Implement NBI connector to interface with OSM Client
• #314 (closed): New service for IPoWDM configuration fron Orchestrator to IPoWDM controller
• #315 (closed): Add missing P4 INT collector attribute in example descriptor
• #317 (closed): VNT Manager lacks requirement confluent-kafka
• #318 (closed): Optimize OSM Client CI/CD pipeline
• #319 (closed): Fix Docker image cleanup in CI/CD pipeline
• #320 (closed): IETF SIMAP Basic support with Kafka YANG-push
• #329 (closed): ECOC 2025 Hack-Your-Research
• #331 (closed): bitnami/kafka moved to bitnamilegacy/kafka
• #339 (closed): Instruct policy to observe a specific KPI ID for alarms
• #340 (closed): Fix CI/CD pipeline jobs after multiple merges
• #341 (closed): OpenROADM Flexgrid Support
• #343 (closed): Integration of Mimir Deployment in Production Environment
• #344 (closed): Implement a new Firewall Agent controllable through RESTCONF/OpenConfig
• #346 (closed): Fix Python versions in install_requirements.sh script
• #348 (closed): Telemetry collector python versioning and misplacement issues
• #351 (closed): Update copyright headers for R6