Changes and New Features

• Added support for Spectrum-X 1.2 RA

• Added beta-level support for Quantum-X800 (XDR speed)

• OVN Bare-metal – Added support for tenant Isolation for E-W and N-S

• DOCA Telemetry library - Added support for high-frequency sampling and load-balancing between central observability DBs

• DOCA Flow – performance analysis tool, live upgrade, FDB RSS pipe support in switch model

• DOCA Flow – pkt_meta field has been changed to big endian

• Added GA support for OVS-DOCA and local mirroring

• Added support for HBN on SimX, HBN LTS, PBR, and improved scale

• Added alpha-level support for DOCA RDMA on GPU

• Virtio-net scale 1K devices – optimizations, service restart flow for VFE, and support for hotplug/unplug on a virtio device during host power-off/power-cycle

• Added support for virtio-net-controller high availability (HA) to minimize per device down time

• Virtio-blk – improved recovery time and hotplug/unplug flow

• Firefly service – SyncE, DTS

• Rivermax – IPMX ProAV, H4M, GFN license server

• App Shield Lib – added POC-level support for NIM container threat detection

• Storage –

  • Added alpha-level support for target offload for BlueField-3 storage controller

  • Added beta-level support for SNAP virtio-fs

• DOCA-Host new profile – DOCA-ROCE

• Added GA support for DOCA Management Service (DMS)

• Data Path Acceleration – Added support for:

  • DPA tooling for customer apps perf tuning

  • Beta-level DOCA DPA comms

  • Performance counters

  • Queue-access function optimization

  • DPA side RQ to allow zero pad

• DOCA DMA perf improvements

• DOCA Comm Channel – new Comch support, and deprecation of old Comm Channel

• Changed from using proprietary strongSwan-bf to using upstream strongSwan

The following changes in DOCA 2.9.0 (BSP 4.9.0) and BMC 24.10-LTSU1 break backward compatibility and therefore require customers to upgrade all DOCA software components to the latest available version to avoid anomalous behavior: