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NETCONF
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Overview
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The NETCONF projects hosts multiple components relating to IETF's NETCONF Working Group:

* Northbound and southbound plugins for NETCONF protocol, as described in `RFC-6241 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6241>`__
* Northbound plugin for RESTCONF protocol, as described in `RFC-8040 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8040>`__
* Northnound plugin for descring RESTCONF endpoint in terms of `OpenAPI 3.0 <https://swagger.io/docs/specification/about/>`__


Behavior/Feature Changes
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New NETCONF release offers lightweight Netty-based RESTCONF Northbound on port 8182.
For more details see: `NETCONF-873 <https://lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net/browse/NETCONF-873>`__.

The OpenAPI component modernization has continued by introducing parameters to load documentation
to width and depth which helps users to scale document as needed.
For mode details see: `NETCONF-1225 <https://lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net/browse/NETCONF-1225>`__
and `NETCONF-1298 <https://lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net/browse/NETCONF-1298>`__.

New Features
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* `NETCONF-873 <https://lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net/browse/NETCONF-873>`__
* `NETCONF-1225 <https://lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net/browse/NETCONF-1225>`__
* `NETCONF-1298 <https://lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net/browse/NETCONF-1298>`__

Deprecated and Removed Features
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There are no deprecated or removed features.

Resolved Issues
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The following table lists the issues resolved in this release.

.. jira_fixed_issues::
   :project: NETCONF
   :versions: 8.0.0-8.0.2

Known Issues
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The following table lists the known issues that exist in this release.

.. jira_known_issues::
   :project: NETCONF
   :versions: 8.0.0-8.0.2