Release Notes (For major release milestones)

0.7.0 beta (Aug, 2022)

Initial release of loxilb

Functional Features:
- Two-Arm Load-Balancer (NAT+Routed mode)
  - Upto 16 end-points support
- Load-balancer selection policy
  - Round-robin, traffic-hash (fallback to RR if hash fails)
- Conntrack support in eBPF - TCP/UDP/ICMP/SCTP profiles
- GTP with QFI extension support
  - ULCL classifier support
- Native QoS-Policer support (SRTCM/TRTCM)
- GoBGP Integration
- Extended visibility and statistics
LB Spec Support:
- IP allocation policy
- Kubernetes 1.20 base support
- Support for Calico Networking
Utilities:
- loxicmd support : Configuration utlity with the look and feel of kubectl

Functional Features:
- Enhanced load-balancer support including SCTP statefulness, WRR distribution
- Integrated Firewall support
- Integrated end-point health-checks
- One-ARM, FullNAT, DSR LB mode support
- NAT66/NAT64 support
- Clustering support
- Integration with Linux egress TC hooks
LB Spec:
- Stand-alone mode to support LB Spec kube-loxilb
- Load-balancer class support
- Advanced IPAM for ipv4/ipv6 with shared/exclusive mode
- Kubernetes 1.25 Integration
Utilities:
- loxicmd support : Data-Store support, more commands

Functional Features:
- Hardened NAT Support - CGNAT'ish
- L3 DSR mode Support
- Https end-point liveness probes
- Maglev clustering
- SCTP multihoming support
- Integration with Linux native QoS
- Support for Cilium, Weave Networking
- Grafana based dashboard
- IPSEC Support (with VTI)
- Initial support for in-cluster mode
kube-loxilb/LB Spec Support:
- OpenShift Integration
- Support for per-service liveness-checks, IPAM type, multi-homing annotations
- Kubernetes 1.26 (k0s, k3s, k8s )
- Operator support
- AWS EKS support

Functional Features:
- Kube-proxy replacement support
- IPVS compatibility mode
- Master-plane HA support
- BFD and GARP support for Hitless HA
- Enhancements for Multus support
- SCTP multi-homing end-to-end support
- Cloud Availability zone(s) support
- Redhat9 and Ubuntu24 support
- Support for upto Linux Kernel 6.8
- Full Support for Oracle OCI
- SockAddr eBPF for LocalVIP access
- Container size enhancements
- HA enhancements for multiple cloud-providers and various scenarios (active-active, active-standby, clustered etc)
- CICD infra enhancements
- Robust secret management for HTTPS apis
- Performance enhancements with CT scaling
- Enhanced exception handling
- GoLang Profiling Support
- Full support for in-cluster mode
- Better support for virtio environments
- Enhanced RSS distribution mode via XDP (especially for SCTP workloads)
- Loadbalancer algorithms - LeastConnections and SessionAffinity added
kube-loxilb Support:
- Kubernetes 1.29
- BGP (auto) Mesh support
- CRD for BGP peers
- Kubernetes GWAPI support
Utilities:
- N4 pfcp test-tool added
- Seagull test tool integrated
- Massive updates to documentation

Functional Features:
- L7 (Transparent) proxy
- HTTPS termination
- Native eBPF implementation for Policy based IP Masquerade/SNAT
- Kubernetes vCluster support
- E2E SCTP multi-homing support with Multus
- Multi-AZ/Region hitless HA support for AWS/EKS
- Service communication proxy support for Telco deployments
Kubernetes Support:
- Kubernetes 1.30
- CRD for BGP policies

Functional Features:
- Support for any host onearm LB rule
- HTTP 2.0 parser
- NGAP protocol parser
- ECMP Load-balancing support
- Non-privileged Container support
- AWS Local-Zone support
- Multi-Cloud HA support (AWS+GCP)
- Updated CICD workflows
Kubernetes Support:
- Ingress Manager support
- Enhanced GW API support

Functional Features:
- SRv6 implementation
- Rolling upgrades
- URL Filtering
- Wireguard support (ingress + egress)
- SIP protocol support
- Sockmap support for SCTP
- Support for proxy protocol v2
- SYNProxy support
- IPSec service mesh for Telco workloads (ingress + egress)
Kubernetes Support:
- Kubernetes 1.31
- Multi-cluster support
- Support for Cilium and LoxiLB in-cluster support
- Kubernetes network policy support