NETCONF

Overview

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

• Northbound plugin for RESTCONF protocol, as described in RFC-8040

• Northnound plugin for descring RESTCONF endpoint in terms of OpenAPI 3.0

Behavior/Feature Changes

New NETCONF release offers lightweight Netty-based RESTCONF Northbound on port 8182. For more details see: 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 and NETCONF-1298.

New Features

• NETCONF-873

• NETCONF-1225

• NETCONF-1298

Deprecated and Removed Features

There are no deprecated or removed features.

Resolved Issues

The following table lists the issues resolved in this release.

Issues resolved in versions 9.0.0 through 9.0.0 (JIRA)

Type	Key	Summary	Resolution	Fix Version(s)
	NETCONF-1427	Call Home Device Connection Failure	Done	8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1425	Device attempts to reconnect even if client config throws exception	Done	7.0.11, 8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1418	Reconfigured device failed to reconnect with: IllegalStateException: Transaction factory was closed. No further operations allowed.	Done	7.0.11, 8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1392	Description of subscription query parameters is wrong	Done	7.0.11, 8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1378	HTTP/2 cleartext upgrade flow fails for Java built in HttpClient	Done	8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-989	Reconnection failure after deleting and re-adding call-home devices	Done	7.0.11, 8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1432	Remove transaction to update mountpoint to connecting state before device removal	Done	7.0.12, 8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1424	Offload transport-http request processing	Done	8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1403	Add transport.http.AcceptHeader and its parser	Cannot Reproduce	8.0.4, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1401	Require properly-parameterized TransportChannelListener	Done	9.0.0
	NETCONF-1346	OpenAPI: improve parameters validation	Done	8.0.1, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-1341	Migrate to Apache Pekko	Done	9.0.0
	NETCONF-1417	Expose NETCONF event stream for RESTCONF subscriptions	Done	9.0.0
	NETCONF-1371	Provide Java based tests for OpenApi over Netty	Done	9.0.0
	NETCONF-1370	Migrate restconf-openapi to Netty	Done	9.0.0
	NETCONF-1344	OpenAPI: add metadata endpoint	Done	8.0.2, 9.0.0
	NETCONF-939	Create swagger benchmark with Junos models	Done	9.0.0

Known Issues

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