Sonic Roadmap Planning

There will be periodic SONiC Roadmap planning sessions. These will define the new capabilities to be delivered by the SONiC project in its next release. It's expected that new feature contributions will be aligned with the roadmap.

Pull requests for features that are not in the roadmap may not be accepted into the project. This is to help ensure the project can produce a stable, reliable release and make progress.

Release	Release Date	SAI version	Features Included
SONiC.202411	11/30/2024	SAI1.15.0	Progress Tracking
			[HLD] bmp for monitoring SONiC BGP info
			[Logrotate] Add logrotate feature HLD
			Add HLD for FRR-SONiC Communication Channel Enhancements
			Adding the HLD for SONiC reset local users' passwords
			BBR and Overlay ECMP coexistence with dual ToR
			BGP Loading Optimization HLD
			BGP PIC HLD
			BGP route aggregation with BBR awareness
			Broadcom syncd bookworm upgrade
			DSCP inner marking with IP-in-IP
			Expand docker manifest capabilities to include network and ports configuration
			Extend sysmonitor functionality to wait for host daemons
			FEC Histogram
			Fpmsyncd Next Hop Table Enhancement HLD
			Graceful SAI failure handling w/o orchagent crash
			HLD for cli sessions feature
			HLD for ECN and WRED statistics support in SONiC
			HLD for Memory_Statistics
			IPM: IP Measurements
			IPMC dataplane
			Kdump Remote SSH Config Enhancements
			Merged EVPN VxLAN MH HLD from Cisco and BCM
			Mitigating DHCP Starvation Attacks
			Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) Updated HLD
			Notification to SAI that fast-reboot is done
			Port Access Control Phase 1
			Power over Ethernet (PoE)
			Reset user password upon long press on reset button
			Silicon config support for Broadcom yml file and property overwrite
			SONiC Security Auditing HLD
			SRv6 VPN HLD for 202305 release
			Support SSD cleanup
			UEFI key management in SONiC to perform secure boot key rotation, update, remove revoke etc
			upgrade FRR to version 10.0.1, upgrade libyang2 to 2.1.148.
			Upgrade to FRR 10.0.1
			VRRP
			Weighted Cost Multipathing for Chassis and PizzaBox devices
SONiC.202405	05/31/2024	SAI1.14.0	Progress Tracking
			[LLDP][T2] Advertise Chassis Hostname when present.
			[NTP] Fix config template to init default parameters
			[SubnetDecap] Add subnet decap HLD
			Add details of sff_mgr regarding deterministic bringup for SFF compliant modules
			Add HLD for IPv4 port based DHCP server in SONiC
			[Add LDAP HLD
			Add SRv6 SID L3Adj
			Base OS upgrade to Bookworm
			Bookworm Upgrade LLDP, SNMP subagent, ICCPD, PDE, FRR
			[CVL dynamic table field support]
			CVL Infra Enhancement
			CVL singleton table and multi-list table support
			Decrease number of false positive triggers while using PFC watchdog
			Extend CMIS host management debug capability
			Extend CMIS host management to support warmboot and fastboot
			Go Code format checker and formatter
			High-level Design of Storage Monitoring Daemon
			HLD: DHCPv4 - Specify dhcp relay's Gateway explicitly with Primary address.
			NetScan over VLAN support
			NextHop Group Table Enhancement
			RESTCONF infra enhancement
			SAI health monitor and dump generation
			SONiC container upgrade to Bookworm (Debian 12)
			SONiC Debian Upgrade Cadence process improvement
			Support OpenSSL 3.0 SymCrypt provider and engine for bookworm
			Test Plan for OSPF and BFD
			Third party container management using the Sonic Application Framework
			TLS1.3 Support
			UMF Config Session Support
			UMF infra enhancement
			UMF: OpenConfig YANG support for Physical Interfaces
			UMF subscription enhancement
			UMF: Transformer Infrastructure
			Upgrade FRR to 8.5.4
			Upgrade SWSS/SyncD to debian 12
			Weighted-Cost Multi-Path
SONiC.202311	11/30/2023	SAI1.13.3	Progress Tracking
			[DASH] ACL tags HLD
			AMD-Pensando ELBA SOC support
			Auto FEC
			Banner HLD
			FRR version 8.5.1 Upgrade
			Build improvements changes
			CMIS host management - Port signal integrity per speed
			CMIS Module Management Enhancement HLD
			Container Hardening
			Create CMIS-custom-SI-settings.md
			Egress Sflow Enhancement
			Factory reset
			Fix containers deployments dependencies on boot/config_reload affecting user experience
			gNMI Master Arbitration
			High-level design for Wake-on-LAN feature in SONiC
			Libvs Port Counter Support
			NAT Bookworm Upgrade
			NTP: Additional NTP configuration knobs + NTP server provisioning
			PDDF System Fan Enhancement
			PDDF support for Ufispace platforms and GPIO extension
			Persistent DNS address across reboots
			RADIUS NSS Vulnerability
			[SNMP]: SONiC SNMP Changes to support IPv6
			SSH global config
			Sflow 800G Support
			TACACS NSS Vulnerability
			UMF: Additional Optimizations for Transformer Infrastructure
			UMF Infra Enhancement for SONIC-YANG
			UMF Subscription Infra Phase 2
			Upgrade hsflowd and remove dropmon build flags
			Virtual SONiC Network Helper
SONiC.202305	05/31/2023	SAI1.12.0	Progress Tracking
			ACL keys for matching BTH_opcode and AETH_syndrome
			Auto tech support w/orchagent abort case
			Build Time Improvement Version Caching Support
			Chassis - execute Line card cmds from Sup remotely
			Collecting dump during SAI failure
			Config Reload Enhancement
			Docker migration to Bullseye
			FIB Suppress Announcements of Routes Not Installed in HW
			MDIO IPC Client Library
			PDDF FPGA Device Support
			PDDF S3IP Compliant SysFS Path Support
			PINS Generic SAI Extensions resource monitoring support
			Port breakout feature with CMIS enabled
			Preserve CoPP table during fastboot
			Reproducible SONiC web server population script
			REST Server DoS Attack Security Fix
			rsyslog enhancements
			SONiC YANG RADIUS Server and RADIUS table
			SONiC YANG Support for IPv6 Link Local
			Standalone local clock setting
			Static Route BFD HLD document
			Switch Port Modes and VLAN CLI Enhancement
			UMF Subscription Infra Phase 1
			UMF Transformer Enhancements and Optimization
			V4/V6 L3 ACL optimization
SONiC.202211	11/30/2022	SAI1.11.0	Progress Tracking
			Add syslog message rate limit configuration per container
			Auto Neg Enhancement
			BRCM KNET sflow psample API compliance upgrade
			Bulk counters
			Bullseye Docker Migration - FRR, PDE, BRCM Platform, ICCPD
			Build Time Improvement
			General config CLI validation by YANG model
			gNMI interface for config
			Incremental port configuration update
			Link Training
			Make syslog log level configuration persistent
			NPU MDIO Access Support and gbsyncd Enhancement
			OSFP Transceiver monitoring
			PDDF QSFPs Low Power Mode Support
			PINS Generic SAI Extensions
			PINS Runtime Configuration
			RJ-45
			S3IP sysfs
			Security Secure boot
			Security California Law
			Setting RIF loopback action to drop
			SONiC ECMP calculator
			SONIC YANG - VxLAN, SNMP
			SRv6 uSID support in SONiC dataplane - uN, uA
			Structured message by streaming telemetry
			Systemd bootchart integration
			Syslog Source IP configuration
SONiC.202205	05/31/2022	SAI1.10.2	Progress Tracking
			Active Active ToRs
			Add SAI version check to SONiC build system
			Add system date row to ‘show version’
			Added fan_drawer class support in PDDF
			Align crmorch with sai_object_type_get_availability
			CMIS Diagnostics
			Command for showing specific MAC from DB
			counter delay via config_db and not via systemd
			Deterministic interface Link bring-up
			DSCP/TC remapping for tunnel traffic
			Dynamic Policy Based Hashing (edit flow)
			Extend auto tech support for memory threshold
			FRR version update from 7.5 to 8.2
			Klish CLI for show-tech support
			Migrated PDDF to Bullseye
			Move Nvidia syncd and pmon to Debian11- "Bullseye"
			NVGRE/GRE
			Password Hardening
			PINS - Batched programming requests for higher throughput
			Queue statistics based on queue configurations and not max
			Route Flow counters (based on generic counters)
			SONiC Generic Configuration Update and Rollback - Full Support
			SONIC YANG Support for KDUMP, ACL, MCLAG, BUM Storm Control
			Sorted next hop ECMP
			Storm Control (BUM)
			Symcrypt integration with OpenSSL
			System Ready Enhancements
			Updated PDDF kernel modules in compliance with kernel 5.10 APIs
			Updated PDDF SFP Class with refactored SFP framework
SONiC.202111	11/30/2021	SAI1.9.1	Progress Tracking
			ACL orch redesign
			App extension CLI generation tool
			Automatic tech support and core dump creation
			Better route scalability with multiple next-hops
			Class-Based Forwarding
			CLI level authorization
			DHCP support IPv6
			Dynamic Policy Based Hashing
			Dynamic port breakout
			EXP to TC QoS maps
			EVPN VXLAN for platforms using P2MP tunnel based L2 forwarding
			Handle port config change on fly in xcvrd
			Host interface trap counter
			L2 functional and performance enhancements
			New branch creation for Debian11
			One line command to extract multiple DBs info of a SONiC component - Debug dump utility
			Overlay ECMP
			Overlay ECMP - BFD offload
			PDK - Platform Development Environment
			PINS (P4 Integrated Network Stack)
			Reclaim reserved buffer for unused ports
			Routed sub-interface naming convention
			SONiC for MPLS Dataplane
			SONiC Generic Configuration Update and Rollback - Preliminary Support
			SRv6 support (Cntd)
			Support for passing IS-IS, LDP and MicroBFD packets to CPU
			Upgrade SONiC init flow
			VXLAN src port configuration
SONiC.202106	06/30/2021	SAI1.8.1	Progress Tracking, Release Note
			Add FRR running configuration to tech support
			Broadcom silicon common config
			Dynamic policy based hashing
			Enable/Disable auto negotiation and speed setting with number of lanes
			Error handling (swss)
			Inband mgmt VRF
			IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered
			MC-LAG (L2)
			PCIe Monitoring
			PDK - Platform Development Environment
			RADIUS AAA
			SONiC for MPLS Dataplane
			Telemetry for Multi-ASIC
			TPID config support
			Enhanced xcrvd SFP error flow HLD
			Entity sensor MIB extension
SONiC.202012	12/31/2020	SAI1.7.1	Progress Tracking, Release Note
			Consistent ECMP support (fine grain ECMP)
			Console Support for SONiC (Hardware)
			Console Support for SONiC (SSH forwarding)
			Container warm restart (BGP/TeamD/SWSS/SyncD)
			CoPP Config/Management
			Distributed forwarding in a VOQ architecture HLD
			Dynamic headroom calculation
			Enable synchornous SAI APIs (error handling)
			EVPN/VXLAN
			FRR BGP NBI
			Gearbox
			Kubernetes (docker to be controlled by Kubernetes)
			Management Framework (Phase 2)
			Merge common lib for C++ and python (SWSS common lib)
			Move from Python2->python3
			Multi-ASIC
			Multi-DB enhancement-Part 2
			ONIE FW tools CPLD, BIOS, SSD, Firmware upgrade [Uniform Tool]
			PDDF advance to SONiC Platform 2.0, BMC
			SONiC entity MIB extensions
			Support hardware reboot/reload reason (Streaming Telemetry)
			System health and system LED
SONiC.202006	06/30/2020	SAI1.6.3	Progress Tracking, Release Note
			Build Improvements
			Bulk API for route
			D-Bus to Host Communications
			Debian 10 upgrade, base image,driver
			Dynamic port break
			Egress shaping (port, queue)
			FW utils extension: SSD upgrade
			Getting docker ready for Debian 10
			Platform APIs move to new APIs * - Continuation
			Port Mirroring
			Porting mVRF support to Debian 10
			Proxy ARP
			Pytest 100% moved from ansible to Pytest
			SPytest
			Thermal control
SONiC.201911	10/30/2019	1.5	Progress Tracking       Release Notes
			ZTP - design review in progress
			Mgmt VRF
			sFlow
			L3 perf enhancement
			VRF
			Platform test
			SSD diagnostic tolling
			Management Framework
			Multi-DB optimization-Part 1
			Sub-port support
			Build time improvements
			Egress mirroring and ACL action support check via SAI
			Configurable drop counters
			Log analyzer to pytest
			HW resource monitor
			NAT
			ONIE FW tools - bios & cpld
SONiC.201904	04/30/2019	1.4	Release Note
			FRR as default routing stack
			Upgrade each docker to stretch version
			Upgrade docker engine to 18.09
			Everflow V2 - IPV4/IPv6 Portion 2.0
			Egress ACL bug fix and ACL CLI enhancement
			L3 RIF counter support
			PMon Refactoring
			BGP-EVPN support(type 5), (related HLD Fpmsyncd,Vxlanmgr,template)
			Transceiver parameter tuning PR pending on CR sign off
SONiC.201811	11/30/18	1.3	Release Note
			Debian Kernel Upgrade to 4.9
			Warm Reboot
			Incremental Config (IP, LAG, Port shut/unshut)
			Asymmetric PFC
			PFC Watermark
			Routing Stack Graceful Restart
			Basic VRF and L3 VXLAN
SONiC.201807	07/30/18	1.3
			gRPC
			Dtel support
			SONiC Architecture and User Manual (Documentation)
			Sensor transceiver monitoring
			LLDP extended MIB: lldpremtable, lldplocporttable, lldpremmanaddrtable, lldplocmanaddrtable, lldplocporttable, lldpLocalSystemData
SONiC.20180	03/15/18	1.2
			Critical Resource Monitoring
			MAC Aging
			IPv6 ACL
			BGP/Neighbor-down fib-accelerate
			PFC WD
SONiC.201712	12/15/2017	1.0	Fast Reload
			SONiC Support SAI 1.0
			TACACS+
			LACP Fallback
			MTU Setting
			Vlan Trunk
			Static Port breakout1
			Dynamic ACL Upgrade
			SWSS Unit Test Framework
			CobfigDB framework
SONiC.201709	9/15/2017	0.9.4	VLAN
			ACL permit/deny
			IPv6
			Tunnel Decap
			Mirroring
			Post Speed Setting
			BGP Graceful restart helper
			BGP MP
SONiC.201705	5/15/2017	0.9.4	BGP
			ECMP
			LAG
			LLDP
			QoS - ECN
			QoS - RDMA
			Priority Flow Control
			WRED
			COS
			SNMP
			Syslog
			Sysdump
			NTP
			COPP
			DHCP Relay Agent
			SONiC to SONiC upgrade
			Multiple Images support
			One Image
Backlog
			400G DR support - Deferred from 202205 release
			400G ZR optics performance monitoring - Deferred from 202305 release
			AAA improvement
			ACL enhancements: Policing, DHCP/PCP remark, L2
			ACL UDF
			ACMS and Restful API for Arista 7060 - Deferred from 202205 release
			Add SNMP view to filter MIB browsing - Deferred from 202305 release
			Add new YANG models for IS-IS/SR/MPLS configs and telemetry - Deferred from 202305 release
			Add PIT HLD document , this PR replace previous PR#1014 - Deferred from 202305 release
			Adding IS-IS and SR/MPLS from FRR - Deferred from 202305 release
			Align crmorch with sai_object_type_get_availability
			ARP Refresh
			App extension with warmboot awareness
			App extension with Orchagent/SWSS
			ASIC Firmware update mechanism - Deferred from 202305 release
			BGP Add Path
			BGP config incremental update - Deferred from 202205 release
			BGP ExtComm
			BGP Link bandwidth ExtComm
			BGP Unnumbered config_db knobs - Deferred from 202211 release
			BFD SW 100ms interval from FRR
			Chassis infrastructure, T2 topologies and sample Testcases converted
			CMIS Diagnostics
			Config Reload Enhancement: Introduce the Transaction Mechanism - Deferred from 202205 release
			ConfigDB 100% YANG model - Deferred from 202305 release
			CPU Queues
			DASH Infra - Deferred from 202305 release
			DASH – SAI PTF extension for SmartNIC - Deferred from 202205 release
			Distributed VOQ architecture HLD
			Debug Port Data - Deferred from 202305 release
			Deprecating Python2 platform daemons - Deferred from 202205 release
			Default value from SONiC YANG for configuration - Deferred from 202211 release
			DHCP relay IPv6 support
			DHCPv4 refactoring - Deferred from 202211 release
			Docker image on Bulleyes - Deferred from 202205 release
			DPB Reconcile
			Dynamic CoPP reconcile
			Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) - Deferred from 202211 release
			ECMP and LAG hashing and IP fields - Deferred from 202211 release
			ECN and WRED statistics - Deferred from 202305 release
			Enabling IS-IS in the dataplane
			Extending Entphysicaltable MIB table
			Extend FW debug info in sysdump
			Extended TeamD expire timer - Deferred from 202211 release
			Event-mgmt Infra - Deferred from 202205 release
			Everflow Support on VOQ Chassis
			EVPN-MH Phase #1 - Deferred from 202205 release
			Fabric Port support for SONiC
			Flow-based Services (incl. packet DSCP remark)
			Firmware upgrade infra - Deferred from 202211 release
			Further extensions and uses of application extension framework
			Gearbox part 2
			Generic counters (Flow counters)
			Generic Hash - ECMP and LAG hashing and IP fields - Deferred from 202305 release
			Global setting to allow IPv6 link-local neighbours to always be programmed
			gNMI: Save-On-Set - Deferred from 202305 release
			HLD for changing teamd expiry timer - Deferred from 202305 release
			IEEE 802.1s – Multiple Spanning Tree Support - Deferred from 202305 release
			Inband port support for Chassis
			IPSec on vSwitch - Deferred from 202211 release
			IS-IS and OSPF routing support - Deferred from 202305 release
			Kernel programming performance enhancement
			Klish CLI for show-tech support
			Kubernetes enhancements
			LAG Support for Chassis
			L2 Dot1Q tunneling support
			libebpf support and usage
			Link and node path protection - Deferred from 202305 release
			Link Event Damping - Deferred from 202305 release
			MACSec support in Chassis
			MACSEC enhancement: primary & fallback case - Deferred from 202205 release
			MacSec fallback key support - Deferred from 202305 release
			Management Framework RBAC
			Media Enhancements (Media Information & Settings)
			Mgmt FW Phase 3
			MPLS scalability enhancement in SAI and SWSS
			MultiDB reconcile
			MMU incremental config update - Deferred from 202211 release
			Neighbor Enhancement - Nbrmgrd ARP refresh for router port - Deferred from 202211 release
			Neigh refresh - Deferred from 202305 release
			NVGRE/GRE
			Operator security profile - Deferred from 202305 release
			P4 Runtime State Cache - Deferred from 202305 release
			P4-CLI - Deferred from 202305 release
			PINS Generic SAI Extensions - Cross Referencing of dynamic PINS Extensions objects with SAI objects - Deferred from 202305 release
			Platform Monitoring for Chassis systems
			Platform Integration Test, aka. PIT - Deferred from 202211 release
			PINS enhancement
			PINS GE Netlink - Deferred from 202211 release
			PINS SAI.P4 enhancements for Layer2 support and VxLAN - Deferred from 202205 release
			P-NAC (Port based Network Access Control) - Deferred from 202305 release
			Port auto-negotiation status - Deferred from 202305 release
			Port Init Profile (Port Bulk) - Deferred from 202305 release
			Port-security - Deferred from 202211 release
			Port bulk support - Deferred from 202211 release
			Python 3.0 upgrade for testbed - Deferred from 202305 release
			Qumram-MX support - Deferred from 202305 release
			Reproducible SONiC web server population script HLD - Deferred from 202211 release
			Routing/BGP for Chassis
			Routed sub-interface reconcile
			RPVST+
			Sample Rate on mirror
			Segment Routing support in SONiC
			Security Secure upgrade - Deferred from 202211 release
			Sflow with remote collector
			Show running enhancement
			SNMPd Enhancements - Deferred from 202205 release
			Secure upgrade v2 - Deferred from 202305 release
			SONiC shared headroom - enhanced configuration
			SONiC management repo  Python3 compliance
			SONiC new polling counters for counters which has extend CPU req.
			SONiC app extension (w/o orchagent)
			SONiC fanout support - Deferred from 202205 release
			SONiC IPSEC support
			SONiC NAT Scaling
			SONiC Port Access Control - Deferred from 202305 release
			SONiC Static Port Channel Support - Deferred from 202305 release
			SONiC with P4 DPDK (PNA architecture) – Basic SoftSwitch with DPDK - Deferred from 202205 release
			100% SONiC YANG model
			StateDB on YANG model - Deferred from 202211 release
			Static Anycast Gateway
			Static LAG Support - Deferred from 202211 release
			Storm Control (BUM)
			STP/PVST
			Streaming Telemetry support for Syslog - Deferred from 202205 release
			SR-MPLS support - Deferred from 202305 release
			SRv6 Orchagent support for FRR integration in SONiC - Deferred from 202305 release
			SRv6 policy steering w/ FRR protocols integration - Deferred from 202205 release
			SRv6 sBFD, DT46 - Deferred from 202205 release
			SRv6 VPN - Deferred from 202305 release
			Static Anycast Gateway HLD - Deferred from 202305 release
			Support PCEP (pathd daemon from FRR) and BFD protocols - Deferred from 202305 release
			Switch Port Modes and VLAN CLI Enhancement - Deferred from 202211 release
			SWSS App State DB and Redis performance - Deferred from 202305 release
			System Ready Enhancements
			System with zero port support - Deferred from 202205 release
			TDR support for 1G Cu SFP
			Teamd warm-restart - Deferred from 202211 release
			Testbed v2 scale out - Deferred from 202211 release
			Testcase/Testbed Infrastructure
			Telemetry for Chassis
			Telemetry for BGP
			(Test) Testbed v2
			(Test) Upgrade to Python3 compliance
			(Test) Ansible 2.10 upgrade
			Third Party Container Management - Deferred from 202305 release
			Thresholds (statistics)
			Traffic Management - Deferred from 202305 release
			vlan management improvement - Deferred from 202305 release
			VLAN Stacking - Deferred from 202205 release
			VoQ Chassis Support in SONiC
			VNET ping tool to debug VNET configuration
			Vxlan enhancement - Deferred from 202205 release
			UI Content (UMF client)
			UMF DB Access Layer Enhancement - Deferred from 202305 release
			UMF Translib API Enhancement - Deferred from 202305 release
			Uploading logs to remote syslog server - Deferred from 202305 release
			User Management (RBAC) - Deferred from 202305 release
			UMF Management Infra Enhancement - Deferred from 202305 release
			YANG model enhancement - Deferred from 202305 release

NOTE

• Platform APIs will be backwards compatible in 201908, will be cut over to new APIs in the next release