Design Specs

Monitoring Features

• Critical Resource Monitoring
• Dtel support
• Everflow enhancement
• gRPC
• HW resource monitor
• Inband Flow Analyzer
• L3 RIF counter support
• Port Mirroring
• PSU and FAN LED management
• Sensor transceiver monitoring
• sFlow
• SSD diagnostic tolling

Routing/Switching Features

• Basic VRF and L3 VXLAN
• BFD-Enhancement
• BFD - SW - 100ms interval from FRR
• BGP-EVPN support(type 5), (related HLD Fpmsyncd,Vxlanmgr,template)
• BGP Route Install Error Handling
• BGP/Neighbor-down fib-accelerate
• Consistent ECMP support (fine grain ECMP)
• EVPN/VXLAN
• FRR BGP NBI
• L2 functional and performance enhancements
• Layer 2 Forwarding Enhancements
• L3 performance and scaling enhancements
• LACP Fallback Feature for SONiC
• MLAG
• NAT in SONiC
• Proxy ARP
• Routing Stack Graceful Restart
• SONiC VRF support
• STP/PVST
• VRF

QoS Features

• Asymmetric PFC
• Configurable Drop Counters in SONiC
• Dynamic headroom calculation
• Egress shaping (port, queue)
• PFC WD
• PFC Watermark
• Sub-port support

System

• AAA - (Radius_Auth, TACACS+ Auth, AAA Improvements)
• Build system improvements
• Build time improvements
• Console Support for SONiC (SSH forwarding)
• Container warm restart (BGP/TeamD/SWSS/SyncD)
• CoPP Config/Management
• D-Bus to Host Communications
• Debian Kernel Upgrade to 4.9
• Debug Framework
• Dynamic port breakout
• Enable synchronous SAI APIs (error handling)
• FirmWare utils extension
• Incremental Config (IP, LAG, Port shut/unshut)
• IPv6 Link-local enhancements
• kdump
• Log analyzer to pytest
• Management Framework
• Management Framework (Phase 2)
• Mgmt VRF
• Multi-DB optimization
• SONiC entity MIB extensions
• SONiC CLI Auto-generation tool
• SONiC Generic Configuration Update and Rollback
• SPytest
• Support hardware reboot/reload reason (Streaming Telemetry)
• Sub-port support
• System health and system LED
• Thermal control
• Warm Reboot
• ZTP

Platform Related

• Gearbox
• Kubernetes (docker to be controlled by Kubernetes)
• Multi-ASIC 202006
• ONIE FirmWare tools
• PDDF advance to SONiC Platform 2.0, BMC
• Platform Development Environment
• PMon Refactoring
• SSD diagnostic tolling
• Transceiver parameter tuning

Security

• Egress ACL bug fix and ACL CLI enhancement
• Egress mirroring and ACL action support check via SAI
• IPv6 ACL

Please refer to SONiC Roadmap page for which release, a particular feature is in.