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ICN R3 Release Notes

ICN R3 Release Notes

Apr 23, 2026

Summary

ICN v0.4.0 is released as a part of ICN R3 release.

what is released?

We're pleased to announce the delivery of Akraino ICN R3 release. All the components are de-coupled and they can run standalone and they all integrated with ICN installation script.

components of the release (Akraino new)

The main themes of this release are:

Metal3 Provisioning script:  Metal3 IPMI provisioning script and de-provisioning script for bare-metal and Virtual deployment with IPMI LAN protocol support

Binary Provisioning agent(BPA) Operator: 

  • BPA operator is provision k8s cluster in Bare-metal and virtual deployment provisioned by metal3. BPA operator uses the metal3 information  

  • BPA operator provision nested K8s cluster(K8s cluster inside a VM maintained by  K8s). BPA manages k8s based VM under Cloud

Binary Provisioning agent(BPA) Rest API controller: Binary Provisioning agent Rest API controller runs as K8s service in the bootstrap cluster. Allow the user to upstream software, container images and OS images

Kubernetes deployment(KuD): KuD is the multi-cluster installer having 3 installation provision type to install k8s multi-cluster in Baremetal, VM and containerized solution. KUD is part of Multicloud-k8s project in ONAP. KUD is released with multiple components as folllows:

Software released and packaged with ICN:

Components

Link

License

Akraino Release target

Provision stack - Metal3

https://github.com/akraino-icn/baremetal-operator - v1.0-icn

Apache License 2.0

R3

Ironic - Ironic IPA downloader

https://github.com/akraino-icn/ironic-ipa-downloader  - v1.0-icn

Apache License 2.0

R3

Ironic - Ironic image

https://github.com/akraino-icn/ironic-image - v1.0-icn

Apache License 2.0

R3

Ironic - Ironic Inspector Image

https://github.com/akraino-icn/ironic-inspector-image - v1.0-icn

Apache License 2.0

R3

Host Operating system

Ubuntu 18.04

GNU General Public License

R3

NIC drivers

XL710 - https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/xl710-10-40-controller-datasheet.pdf

GNU General Public License Version 2

R3

QAT drivers

Intel® C627 Chipset - https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97343/intel-c627-chipset.html

GNU General Public License Version 2

R3

Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory

Intel® Optane™ DC 256GB Persistent Memory Module  - 

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-storage/optane-dc-persistent-memory/optane-dc-256gb-persistent-memory-module.html

PMDK: Persistent Memory Development Kit - https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/

SPDX-License-Identifier - BSD-3-Clause

R3

ONAP

https://git.onap.org/multicloud

Apache License 2.0

R3

Workloads

OpenWRT SDWAN - https://openwrt.org/

GNU General Public License Version 2

R3

KUD

https://git.onap.org/multicloud/k8s/ 

Apache License 2.0

R3

Kubespray

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray v2.12.6

Apache License 2.0

R3

K8s

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm - v1.16.9

Apache License 2.0

R3

Docker

https://github.com/docker - 18.09

Apache License 2.0

R3

Virtlet

https://github.com/Mirantis/virtlet -1.4.4

Apache License 2.0

R3

SDN - OVN

https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn - 0.3.0

Apache License 2.0

R3

OpenvSwitch

https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs - 2.12

Apache License 2.0

R3

Ansible

https://github.com/ansible/ansible - 2.9.7

Apache License 2.0

R3

Helm

https://github.com/helm/helm - 2.9.1

Apache License 2.0

R3

Istio

https://github.com/istio/istio - 1.0.3

Apache License 2.0

R3

Rook/Ceph

https://rook.io/docs/rook/v1.0/helm-operator.html v1.0

Apache License 2.0

R3

MetalLB

https://github.com/danderson/metallb/releases - v0.7.3

Apache License 2.0

R3

OVN4NFV-K8Ss-Plugin

https://github.com/opnfv/ovn4nfv-k8s-plugin - v0.9.0

Apache License 2.0

 

Device Plugins

https://github.com/intel/intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes - SRIOV

Apache License 2.0

R3

Node Feature Discovery

Apache License 2.0

R3

CNI

https://github.com/coreos/flannel/ - release tag v0.11.0

https://github.com/containernetworking/cni - release tag v0.7.0

https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins - release tag v0.8.1

https://github.com/containernetworking/cni#3rd-party-plugins - Multus v3.3tp, SRIOV CNI v2.0( with SRIOV Network Device plugin)

Apache License 2.0

R3

Dependencies of the release (upstream version, patches)

ICN BP depends on all software version in the table Software released and packaged with ICN:

Upgrade Procedures

not applicable

Release Data

TBD

Enhancements

Functionality changes

not applicable

New Features

not applicable

Version change

Module version changes

not applicable

Document Version Changes

not applicable

Deliverable

Software Deliverable

ICN repo is available here: ICN repo

Documentation Deliverable

version

Documents name

Authors

last update

version

Documents name

Authors

last update

v1.0

ICN Architecture Document

ICN Contributors

May 15, 2020 

v1.0

ICN Installation Guide

ICN Contributors

May 15, 2020 

v1.0

ICN Release Notes for ICN

ICN Contributors

May 15, 2020 

v1.0

ICN Test Document

ICN Contributors

May 15, 2020 

Document Version Changes

Version

Authors

Data released

Version

Authors

Data released

v1.0

ICN Contributors

May 29, 2020 

Fixed Issues and Bugs

Issues are captured  here- ICN fixed Issues and Bugs

Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

System Limitations

ICN BP works on Ubuntu 18.04

Known Issues

Issues

Description

Issues

Description

https://lf-akraino.atlassian.net/browse/ICN-365

Reduce the KUD installation time with customs options

 

 

Workarounds

no work appliable

References