## Features for Release VPP 19.04

### Infrastructure
- DPDK 19.02 integration
- Buffer manager rework and improvements
- Python3 migration (work in progress)
  - vppapigen
  - Python API wrappers
  - Docs generation
  - vpp_config
  - "make test" python3 readiness and refactoring
- Add "make test-gcov" target to main Makefile
- Refactor multiarch code
- vfctl script: bind VF to vfio-pci after VF is created
- cmake cross-compilation support
- CLI control of graph dispatch elogs
- AppImage packaging (disabled by default)
- Complete upstreaming of wireshark dissector
- Remove JVPP which is now an FD.io project
- Punt infra: manage dispatch of exception packets

### VNET & Plugins
- BVI Interface
- Deprecate TAP cli
- Experimental TAP interface TCP segmentation offload
- Vmxnet3 driver plugin
- LACP passive mode
- ACL plugin refactoring
- RDMA (ibverb) driver plugin - MLX5 with multiqueue
- IPSEC
  - Intel IPSEC-MB engine plugin
  - Tunnel fragmentation
  - CLI improvements
  - Performance improvements
  - API modernisation and improvements
  - New Tests and test refactoring
- Crypto
  - Introduce crypto infra
  - crypto_ia32 plugin
  - Add support for AEAD and AES-GCM
  - Implement rfc4231 test cases
  - Implement crypto tests per RFC2202
- Perfmon improvements
  - Python to C parser for intel CPUs
  - 2-way parallel stat collection
  - Collect data on selected thread(s)

### Host stack
- Improve ldp/vls/vcl support for multi-process and multi-threaded applications
- Major refactor/cleanup of session layer
- Refactor cut-through sessions to use a custom transport
- Baseline QUIC transport support