TAC Project Status

Nephio R4 was released onFeb 24, 2025
Details: https://lfnetworking.org/nephio-r4-launch-advancing-cloud-native-network-automation-with-o-ran-integration-and-gitops/

planning is underway for the R5 release, details are available here: https://lf-nephio.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOME/pages/316506116/R5+Planning

• Community is planning a GenAI hackathon (dates tentatively April 15 - April 30)

• Nephio O-RAN implementation of cluster creation was demoed at the O-RAN F2F in Paris on Feb 27

• A Nephio-Sylva collaboration is being discussed

• There is active collaboration between Nephio and O-RAN in the FOCOM and NFO implementation

<dates>

• Support in promoting/coordinating logistics for GenAI and Nephio hackathon

• Developers required in SIG Automation 

• Active participation from additional services providers Orange, DT, Bell, Vodafone etc.

Scandium (Release Sign-Off On 11-Nov-2024)

Titanium Details:https://lf-opendaylight.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ODL/pages/55672833/Release+Schedule+for+Titanium (Delayed)

• Multiple improvements made to controller,netconf and many features.

• ODL-Tutorial for users has been created by David Arjona

<dates>

Oslo (Release sign-off was on Jan 16 2025)

Paris (June 2025) Details: Release Planning: Paris - ONAP Wiki - Confluence

• ONAP has gone through a transformation from "Monolithic" to "Modular Network Automation"

• Streamlined continuous delivery environment

• New focus on standard-based intent-driven approach

• Community is planning to present updates at the ONAP DTF Days 2025 (Event schedule is under discussion); for session topics, see ONAP DTF DAYs 2025

• Detailed update (ONAP messaging 2025): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MTqJDP8QyJwYUyxzDsCoxbUlJsb3Ec_S3xE4Q97HP4/edit?tab=t.0

• Nephio, O-RAN

The ONAP DTF Days 2025 Virtual Event has been officially scheduled. Please be advised the following event details and planning updates:

• Event Dates: Approved by the ONAP TSC, the event will take place on May 13-14, 2025.

• Duration: A 2-day virtual event, focused on ONAP development and community engagement.

• Session Schedule: The ONAP TSC will finalize the detailed session schedule this week.
  
  

  • May 13, 8:00AM - 8:45AM EDT: Byung-Woo Jun, at Ericsson

  • May 13, 9:00AM - 9:30AM EDT: Keguang He at CMCC

  • May 13, 9:45AM  - 10:30AM EDT: Andreas Geissler at Deutsche Telekom

  • May 14, 8:00AM - 8:30AM EDT: Deena Mukundan  at Tech Mahindra

  • May 14, 8:45AM - 9:30AM EDT: John Keeney & Toine Siebelink at Ericsson

  • May 14, 9:45AM - 10:30 AM EDT: Muddasar at MITRE, Shankar Malik at CORAN Labs

• Session Topics and Schedule: see the Wiki page ONAP DTF DAYs 2025 ; @Byung-Woo Jun created this page.

• Support in promoting/coordinating logistics for self-standalone ONAP core projects

• Support in promoting new ONAP message

• Supports in promoting/coordinating AI/ML-driven intent network automation orchestration

Pieman (Released May 14, 2024 ), Quinnipiac (to be released Mar 20, 2025 )

Red River (preliminary release date: Nov 6, 2025 )

• Archived RI1, RI2, Kuberef and Barometer

• Discussions are ongoing to refresh RA1 to current OpenStack releases

•  

• None

<dates>

• Board / Staff: Communicate outages and IT decisions affecting our projects better

  • gerrit.opnfv.org was down for days and we did not received any notifications

  • Jenkins will be shut down on a short notice

• TAC / Staff: Provide an actual support to maintain Scorecard integration

  • E.g. add some comments here why do we need Scorecard at all.

VPP 25.02 (Released Feb 26, 2025), CSIT 25.02 Report Mar 12, 2025

VPP 25.06 Jun 25, 2025, CSIT 25.06 Report Jul 9, 2025

• Migration from Jira to GitHub Issues complete

• Investigation of migration from Jenkins to GitHub Actions and technical design scheduled to begin in March

• TSC planning for CY2025 equipment upgrade cycle

• FD.io marketing planning a podcast series beginning in April/May

<dates>

<dates>

N/A

N/A

TSC Notes

<dates>

Current integration projects underway can be found here: https://lf-networking.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AQBBFw?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiNjc3ZjNjYzM0Njk0NDkzNmJkYWMzZTM4Y2FmMDE2MjgiLCJwIjoiYyJ9

None at this time.

CNTi Test Suite version 1.4.1 was released on Jan 29, 2025.

CNTi goal is to release on a monthly basis (either major or minor release):

• CNTi issues a new major release when there are significant new functional/technical enhancements

• CNTi issues a new minor release when there are smaller functional/technical enhancements or bug fixes

• CNTi Community Priorities 1H/2025 defined:

  • CNF Test suite code cleanup/refactoring, hardening, and test cleanup

  • Support fixes and enhancements for project Sylva

  • Identify and establish new collaboration with other communities, vendors, operators

• CNTi working with Project Sylva in evaluation of security requirements that can be provided via CNTi Test Suite

• CNTi participation in London events

<dates>

• CNTi is actively collaborating with Project Sylva with the CNTi Test Suite being used as part of their CNF Validation program. CNTi and Sylva are starting to discuss additional cloud native best practice tests for security and potential inclusion into the CNTi Test Suite.

• Discussions with NGMN in progress for possible collaboration

Continued support in promoting the work of CNTi in providing a vendor neutral test suite to validate a CNF’s adherence to cloud native best practices. Additional CNF vendors, CSPs, or projects that might leverage and contribute to our work will help drive confidence and adoption for cloud native in telecom networks.

Action: Ask that LFN TAC members and Board members for CNF vendors consider executing the CNTi Test Suite to a) provide us feedback and b) validate their use of cloud native best practices.

Preparing for initial release (aiming for within a month).

Initial release planned for within the month (code complete, just pending announcement and some testing). The initial release will begin our planned schedule of releases every 6 months.

• Ongoing discussions / design talks for potentially creating a lift-and-shift deployment tool to turn existing cloud deployments into Paraglider configuration.

• Introduced technical talks to community meetings.

• Will be releasing a call for a TAC rep this week.

<dates>

• Collaborating with teams at IBM research for data plane optimization as well as a zero-trust controller deployment option.