Release TeraFlowSDN Controller 7.0

Release Notes:

• #229 (closed): New P4 Service handler for 5G UPF offloading
• #292 (closed): Implement integration test for Ryu OpenFlow
• #338 (closed): Multiple enhancements in Telemetry component and deployment logic
• #347 (closed): Integrate DDoS Mitigation with TeraFlowSDN
• #349 (closed): New Monitoring Updates For Optical Controller Integration
• #353 (closed): Update L2VPN NBI to use Service instead of Slice
• #355 (closed): Enhance WebUI Network Topology depicting with Pan/Tilt/Zoom capacities
• #356 (closed): INT Collector invocation and processing crashes after integrating gNMI
• #357 (closed): Logging issues not reporting timestamps
• #358 (closed): NBI to format config rules for services and devices
• #359 (closed): Cleaner logs in fabric TNA services
• #361 (closed): Fix Automation invocation bug
• #362 (closed): Update SIMAP server to support InfluxDB connection
• #363 (closed): Extend gNMI/OpenConfig SBI Driver for basic L2 VPNs
• #366 (closed): SIMAP AI-Engine Framework
• #367 (closed): End-to-End integration test with ETSI OSM RO IETF L2VPN
• #369 (closed): MWC26 F5G SIMAP Demo integration
• #370 (closed): Fix OFC25 integration test
• #371 (closed): Policy re-design
• #372 (closed): Fix Analytics backend handlers
• #373 (closed): New Automation test
• #374 (closed): Implement P4-based topologies for testing
• #375 (closed): Fix some details in Automation service
• #376 (closed): Refactor and improve SD-Fabric tests
• #378 (closed): Update NBI IETF Network YANG files
• #379 (closed): IETF_NETWORK NBI extension for IS-IS TE data
• #380 (closed): New NBI for Media Channel Services
• #381 (closed): New NBI for Optical Slices
• #383 (closed): Fix CI/CD pipeline - Kafka service name and Context unit tests
• #386 (closed): Add missing OpenROADM driver field in WebUI add device form
• #387 (closed): Automation closed loop for optical and multi-granular nodes
• #388 (closed): Fix OFC22 and ECOC22 integration tests to check if services are active
• #391 (closed): Fix optical slot codec in Context DB
• #393 (closed): Fix URLs to download gNMIc tool for hackfests
• #395 (closed): Update copyright headers for R7