P4Runtime Release v1.0.0-rc3

Changelog:

• API
  • relaxed constraints on Protobuf bytestrings for more compact representation and better support for upgrade scenarios
  • added support for one-short action selector programming
  • support for "new" types (P4_16 user-defined types) in order to enable translation (e.g. port ids)
  • added reserved SDN port numbers to p4runtime.proto
  • removed color-awareness information from P4Info
  • added ability to associate a cookie to a forwarding-pipeline configuration, which enables verifying which config is used by the switch without retrieving the whole config over P4Runtime
• specification
  • moved to Open Document Format for figures (.odg files) for easier editing
  • added section on API versioning
  • added section on extending P4Runtime for new P4_16 architectures
• build
  • renamed BAZEL rules to abide by agreed-upon convention
  • new Docker image (specific to this project) to build the specification, includes soffice to generate figures from .odg files

P4Runtime Release v1.0.0-rc2

This is the first release we are doing since moving the specification document from gDoc to Github. As a result most of the effort went into translating the spec to a properly-formatted Madoko document.

Changelog:

• specification
  • convert to Madoko (thanks @chrispsommers for the initial conversion work from gDoc!)
  • updated "In Scope" section
  • improved grammar all over document
• protobuf files
  • fix typo in comments
• build
  • added BAZEL rules to build Protobuf / gRPC libraries