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Front Haul Interface Library Release Notes
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Version FH oran_e_maintenance_release_v1.0, March 2022 
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* Update to DPDK 20.11.1.
* Static Compression support which reduces overhead in user plane packets.
* QoS support per configuration table 3-7.
* DDP Profile for O-RAN FH.
* VPP like vectorization of packet handling.
* C-plane update.
* Support for Measurement of dummy payloads in the range of 40 to 1400 bytes per user.
* CVL(Columbiaville) measured transport implementation including timing parameters adjustment
  prior to C/U plane traffic.

Version FH oran_release_bronze_v1.1, Aug 2020
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* Add profile and support for LTE.
* Add support for the 32x32 massive mimo scenario. Up to 2 cells demo showed with testmac
* mmWave RRH integration. Address regression from the previous release.
* Integrate block floating-point compression/decompression.
* Enhance C-plane for the Category B scenario.


Version FH oran_release_bronze_v1.0, May 2020
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* Integration and optimization of block floating point compression and decompression.
* Category B support
* Add support for alpha and beta value when calculating SFN based on GPS time.
* Support End to End integration with commercial UE with xRAN/ORAN RRU for both mmWave and
  sub-6 scenarios

Version FH oran_release_amber_v1.0, 1 Nov 2019
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* Second version released to ORAN in support of Release A
* Incorporates support for 5G NR sub 6 and mmWave
* Support for Application fragementation under Transport features was added
* This release has been designed and implemented to support the following numerologies defined in the 3GPP |br|
  specification 
  *	Numerology 0 with bandwidth 5/10/20 MHz with up to 12 cells
  *	Numerology 1 with bandwidth 100MHz with up to 1 cell
  *	Numerology 3 with bandwidth 100MHz with up to 1 cell
* The feature set of xRAN protocol should be aligned with Radio Unit (O-RU) implementation
* Inter-operability testing (IOT) is required to confirm correctness of functionality on both sides
* The following mandatory features of the ORAN FH interface are not yet supported in this release
* RU Category  Support of CAT-B RU (i.e. precoding in RU)
* Beamforming Beam Index Based and Real Time BF weights
* Transport Features QoS over FrontHaul


Version FH seedcode_v1.0, 25 Jul 2019
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* This first version supports only mmWave per 5G NR and it is not yet
* optimized
* It is a first draft prior to the November 2019 Release A
* The following mandatory features of the ORAN FH interface are not yet
* supported in this initial release
* RU Category  Support of CAT-B RU (i.e. precoding in RU)
* Beamforming Beam Index Based and Real Time BF weights
* Transport Features QoS over FrontHaul and Application Fragmentation