Release Notes

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)
- Support for GoBGP
- Support for Calico CNI
- Extended visibility and statistics
CCM Support:
- IP allocation policy
- Kubernetes 1.20 base support
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
CCM Support:
- Kubernetes 1.25 Integration
LB Spec:
- Stand-alone mode support kube-loxilb
- Load-balancer class support
- Advanced IPAM for ipv4/ipv6 with shared/exclusive mode
Utilities:
- loxicmd support : Data-Store support, more commands

Functional Features:
- Hardened NAT Support - CGNAT'ish
- L3 DSR mode Support
- Https end-point health monitoring probes
- Consistent Hash support for end-point selection
- SRv6 Support
- Transition to libbpf v1.0.1
- SCTP multihoming support
- Integration with Linux native QoS
- Support for Cilium CNI
- Grafana based dashboard
CCM Support:
- OpenShift Integration
- Kubernetes 1.26
- Operator support
- AWS support