Montreal Release Key Updates

• CPS Path Improvement, we recently added %, >,<, OR, Contains functionality and use of recursive SQL to fetch descendants in CPS Path querying
• Upgrade to Java 17, Spring boot uplift to v3.1.2 and OpenApi 3.
• Support Multiple CM-Handles for NCMP Get Bulk Operation 
• Completed top-level data nodes support, patch operation for multiple data nodes is now supported.
• Significant improvement of read/write and query operations 
• Improve stability by huge reduction of memory consumption
• OpenSSF Best Practices GOLD badge. TBC

• Enhancing CPS CORE API by making it more RESTFUL
• Upgrade of Java, Spring Boot and OpenAPI will help significantly improve vulnerability assessment and security assessment.
• All the list items should be retrieved when a Get request is executed for a list data node. The Get node API can now return list of data nodes using XPath
• SQL can now also be fetched using fetch descendants from queries
• Get Data Node to return the entire List data node.
• No more 32k limit during DB operations
• Extend hazelcast to work on Kubernetes which now allows for capabilities to work on the clustered mode along with standalone

• Updated Java to Version 17

• Add support for YANG modules automation

• Provides YANG modules automation tools, which helps improve the YANG development efficiency and check the version update of the YANG model.

• Add support for Gateway-API in Ingress template (13.0.1)
• Add support for mariadb-operator (13.0.2)

• Besides the Istio Ingress APIs now the support for Gateway API is added to the templates (https://istio.io/latest/docs/tasks/traffic-management/ingress/gateway-api/), which includes:
  
  • TCP Routes
  • UDP Routes
• MariaDB-operator (https://github.com/mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator) offers a declative way to manage MariaDB instances, including:
  • logical DBs, Users, Grants
  • HA (e.g. Galera)
  • Backup and restore
  • Support for latest MariaDB releases

• MariaDB DBs (version 11.1.2) will be created via Operator (13.0.1)

• All ONAP MariaDB instances will now be created with the latest version by default using the mariaDB-operator
• Add Galera clients (e.g. SO, SDNC) will use access to "primary" pod to avoid "Deadlocks" 

• Add default role creation to ServiceAccount

• Via global option it can be decided, whether the ServiceAccount Chart includes the required roles
• This supports the deployment of single ONAP components without a "common" roles-wrapper
  (see ONAP deployment dependencies)

• Support for update of service through import of service template
• Support for update of service through import of service CSAR
• Support for adding/updating interfaces on services
• Support for TMF641 v4.1 milestone and jeopardy events
• Support for timeout in operation implementations
• Support for customization of CSAR generation on a per model basis

• Services can be updated directly in yaml when desired

• More comprehensive support for defining behaviour of interface operations

• Adaptability to define CSAR structure and content to suit the requirements of individual models

• Optimize the intent report processing process and provide the intent report export capability
• Complete component upgrades, including java upgrades to version17, and so on

E2E Network Slicing

PNF software version onboarding

PNF support

• No changes