5.18 Release notes

Table of Contents

1. New Features
2. Fixed Issues

New Features

NOTE: For releases earlier than 4.19 please visit 5.2 release notes page.

Kernel	Category	Description
5.18	TC pedit IPv4 / IPv6 src / dst:ACL
	L3 HW Statistics:Netdevice-Statistics
	SN4600 in GA	Fully certified SN4600
5.17	VXLAN with IPv6 underlay:Virtual-eXtensible-Local-Area-Network-(VXLAN)
	SN5700 in GA	Fully certified SN5700
5.16	GRE6 for Spectrum-2 and above:L3-Tunneling
	Mirroring ECN-marked packets
	Multi-level qdisc offload:Queues-Management
	Port shaper:Queues-Management
	transceiver module power mode policy:Switch-Port-Configuration
	transceiver module reset:Switch-Port-Configuration
	Support for multiple router interface MAC prefixes:Static-Routing
	SN4410 in GA	Fully certified SN4410
5.14	Inner layer 3 and custom multi-path hash policies:Static-Routing
	Transceiver module EEPROM full read access:Switch-Port-Configuration
	Remove Mellanox SwitchX-2 and SwitchIB ASICs support
5.13	Egress and flow-based sampling with extra metadata:Packet-Sampling
	Resilient next-hop groups:Static-Routing
5.12	Route offload notifications:Static-Routing
	ethtool lanes support:Switch Port Configuration
5.11	Nexthop objects support:Static-Routing
	Q-in-Q:Bridge
	Q-in-VNI:Virtual-eXtensible-Local-Area-Network-(VXLAN)
5.10	Firmware fatal events using devlink health:Firmware-Dump
	Support for DCB buffer commands:Quality-of-Service
	Critical and emergency alarms:Temperature-and-Fan-Control
	transceiver_overheat counter:Switch-Port-Configuration
5.9	TC police action: ACL
	monitoring shared buffer drops:Packet-Drops-Monitoring
	link down reason: Switch-Port-Configuration
	TX4810 in Alpha quality	Partially certified TX4810
5.8	Control Plane Policing (CoPP): Quality-of-Service
	TC pedit TCP / UDP sport / dport: ACL
	SN4600C in GA	Fully certified SN4600C
5.7	Packet drops monitoring: ACL
	FIFO stats offload
	Queues management: RED nodrop mode
	ACL actions hardware stats types
	Packet trap policers
	TC skbedit priority and pedit TOS / traffic_class.
	SN3420 in GA	Fully certified SN3420
5.6	Packet drops monitoring: Tunnel and exceptions
	ETS and TBF qdisc offloads
	Default port priority
5.5	SN3800 in GA
	Packet drops monitoring: Layer 3 and exceptions
	Add extended ACK for EMADs error code indicating a bad parameter with string TLV
	Initial Spectrum-3 support
	Initial 400G support
5.4	Packet drops monitoring: Layer 2
	CPU port's shared buffer occupancy monitoring
5.3	Spectrum-2 SN3700 GA	Fully certified SN3700
	PTP	Add support for PTP (Spectrum only)
	ACL match on ingress device	Add support for new key: match on ingress
5.2	Spectrum-2 SN3700C GA	Fully certified SN3700C
5.1	Spectrum-2 GRE	Add support for GRE
	Spectrum-2 QoS	Add support for QoS
	VXLAN	Add VXLAN support for Spectrum-2 as well as FDB vetoing for both
	HW discard counters	Add additional HW discard counters to ethtool
	devlink dev info	Add new devlink info command to show ASIC revision, platform PSID and running FW version
5.0	One-armed router support	Add support to disable ICMP redirect generation
	VXLAN with VLAN-aware bridges support	VXLAN with VLAN-aware bridges support
	VXLAN router support	Add support for VXLAN routing
	Add hock Firmware upgrade support	Add support for ad hock Firmware version overriding the in-driver automatic Firmware upgrade
	Spectrum-2 MC router	Add support for IPv4/6 Multicast router
4.20	QoS MC-awarness	Add support for dedicated pool for BUM traffic
	VXLAN support	VXLAN with VLAN-unaware bridges support
4.19	VRRP	Support of Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
	TC chain templates	Allow user to specify a template that would cover all the filters to be inserted in the chain
	Spectrum-2 support	Initial support for Spectrum-2: basic L2, L3 and ACLs
	QoS	Trust-DSCP and DSCP rewrite
	Counters	Include RFC-2819 counters in stats length
	FW Auto upgrade	Always bump required firmware version

Fixed Issues

Category	Description	Commit info
mlxsw:	Avoid warning during ip6gre device removal	details
mlxsw: i2c	Fix initialization error flow	details