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CCSDK/O-RAN: A1 Policy Functions

• Continued maturing A1-Policy controller functions:
  
  • Removed deprecated DMaaP NBI
  • Upgrade to JDK 17+
  • Numerous 3PP dependency updates
  • Improved support for custom south-bound adapters for custom A1-AP protocol versions
  • Improved test logging/report
  • Improved API documentation/formatting
  • Improved logging/debug-ability in CSIT tests
  • Added graceful shutdown operation to API
  • Added support for fine-grained access control enforcement

• NCMP registration and de-registration performance improvements
• General read and query performance improvements
• DMI Audit (query cm handles)
• Support multiple top level data nodes
• Added dataspace and schema sets queries
• XML support for writing data
• Support queries across anchors
• CPS Path enhancements
• 96% Percent OpenSSF Gold Standard badge 

• Clients can now register and de-register large scale networks (20k nodes) in a timely fashion
• Response times for many queries are no faster by a factor of 10-50
• Clients can query cm handles on properties they have
• No more limitation on single top level element in any model
• Nodes only supporting XML format can now be added to NCMP
• More varied ways of querying CPS Data and metadata
• Progress to gold badge gives clients a level of trust in the security and qualiyy aspects of CPS

Continued migration of MR clients to use kafka native

• Interactive architecture diagram updated
• End-2-End guides removed because they have become outdated due to unmaintained projects.

Minor bug fixes.

Package upgrades, etc

Introduction of "Production" ONAP setup, including:

• Istio Service Mesh based deployment
• Ingress (Istio-Gateway) deployment and usage as standard external access menthod (removal of Nodeports)
• Internal Security provided by ServiceMesh and Component2Component AuthorizationPolicies
• External Security by introducing AuthN/Z using Keycloak and OAuth2Proxy for Ingress Access

Removal of unsupported components (AAF, Portal, Contrib,...)

Update of component helmcharts to use common templates and practices

Introduction of Kubernetes Operators for

• Cassandra (k8ssandra-operator) - to support latest Cassandra version (optional for London)
• Keycloak

• Continuing the CloudNative journey of ONAP
• Use established best practices and products