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• BulkPM API fix
• New remote debugging feature
• Remove DMaaP MR dependency
• Support new JanusGraph version (TBD)

• new component to 
  • configure and import Keycloak realms
  • add AuthenticationPolicies for ONAP Ingress interfaces to enforce Authentication and Authorization

• Add flexibility in Realm creation
• Add possibility to restrict the access to ONAP APIs/UIs protected by Keycloak and Oauth2-Proxy

1. provide incident API

1. Preliminarily provide an incident management framework to reduce the pressure on OSS/BSS by aggregating lots of anomalous data into a small number of incidents. 

according to Dan Timoney, the incident management is no longer targeted for New Delhi.

• move it to Oslo

• internal improvements
• support for external DB

• Flexible integration to external Databases

1. Continue Performance Improvements
2. (new) VES events for CM Changes
3. Delta/Comparison feature
4. Model Upgrade using 'ModuleSetTag' for better efficiency & performance
5. Subscription based CM Data Notifications
6. Support for alternate (3GGP FDN) identifier

1. Faster processing of large requests
2. Message based integration for 3PP interested in CM updates
3. Compare current CM data with original to help with optimization, & troubleshooting
4. More efficient and faster upgrade for many (similar) nodes
5. Finer control of notifications ie. control only relevant data changes are notified
6. 3GPP Compliance, prepare for 3GPP compliant interfaces

• VES Collector
  • remove DMaaP MR dependency
• SNMP Trap Collector
  • Updates of outdated libraries
• PRH Handler (13.1.0)
  • remove DMaaP MR dependency

• Remove the dependency to DMaaP MessageRouter and directly integrate with Kafka

• DMaaP MR is being deprecated.

• Direct integration to Kafka Topics without intermediate service will remove dependencies and gain performance

• Update to latest MongoDB version

• Use latest Database version

• Update to latest MongoDB version

• Use latest Database version

• Template support for DB Operators:
  • mariadb-operator (0.28.1)
  • k8ssandra-operator (v1.16.0)
  • postgres-operator (CrunchyData) (5.5.0)
• Update for configurable "imagePullSecrets" per component

• Support for external DB creation
• Enable DB lifecycle management and Backup via Operator

• Enable ONAP component individual installation (ONAP Streamlining)

• Add support for k8ssandra-operator including latest Cassandra version (4.1.3)

• Add support for mariadb-operator including latest MariaDB version (11.2.2)

• Update to latest Bitnami charts including latest MongoDB version (7.0.5)

• Add support for postgres-operator including latest Postgres version (16.1)

• Add support for postgres-operator

• Add default role creation

• Enable ONAP component individual installation (ONAP Streamlining)

• Support check for "service" readiness

• Better dependency checks 

No changes

OSA: no changes as there were no vulnerabilities raised externally to ONAP 

SECCOM:

• Recommendations for package upgrades
• Add python compatibility module
• CLM scan for Portal NG

DMaaP removed from policy framework

Tracing support added in policy CLAMP ACM

Support for outProperties in restart and redeploy scenarios of CLAMP ACM.

Backward compatibility support added for ACM participants

Regression test suite added for CLAMP ACM

• Amount of security vulnerabilities drastically reduced
• Debugging and diagnostics in CLAMP ACM is enhanced with tracing support
• Users can retain outProperties history of elements after redeployment.
• Users can use the older version of participants against the new ACM-R releases with optional upgrade to latest features.

• use non-root user in containers
• update dependencies

• remove connection to DMaaP MessageRouter

Maintain parity with latest community supported OpenDaylight release

Stay current with third party library patch levels

• remove connection to DMaaP MessageRouter
• Java 17 upgrade code

• Remove the dependency to DMaaP MessageRouter and directly integrate with Kafka
• Java 17 upgrade code

• Kafka version update to 3.7.0

• use latest version in combination with the latest Strimzi-Kafka Operator update (0.41.0)

1.Provide generative AI interactive functionality based on large models.
2.Provide the function of storing usage records of large models
3.Provide large model evaluation functionality to assess different large models.

1.Based on user input, use a large model to identify and analyze user intentions, and provide feedback information.
2.Learn and analyze user historical data as training data for large models.
3.Evaluate the performance of different large models and assist users in selecting the optimal large model.

Version updates:

• Kubernetes (>= v1.28.6)
• Istio (v1.21.0)
• Operators:
  • Strimzi-Kafka (0.41.0)
  • K8ssandra-operator (v1.16.0)
  • Mariadb-operator (0.28.1)
• Keycloak (22.0.4) - Instructions updated

• latest versions of infrastructure components solve security fixes, are supported and deliver the latest features