Netris 4.4.0 Release Notes (May/15/2025)

What’s new in Netris 4.4.0?

Features

  • CloudStack support.

  • Cumulus NVUE ACL support.

  • Controller HA.

  • Topology Validation. Compare actual topology with designed topology in the controller and surface errors when mismatches are identified.

  • Global Routing. Support native VPC subnet reachability from outside of the Netris-managed fabric.

  • Export Topology to CSV. Topology information can be exported to NetQ .dot format and CSV format for labeling and patching cables.

  • Hypervisor Integrated Fabric.

  • Optical Monitoring. Light levels are now monitored.

  • EVPN-MH on Dell-SONiC.

  • Add support for object labels.

  • Add interfaces to V-Nets based on labels.

  • Softgate PRO support.

  • ACLs are now VPC aware.

  • Netris controller can now be installed in an air-gapped environment.

  • QoS for RoCE on EC-SONiC.

  • EC-SONiC support.

  • Ubuntu 24.04 support.

  • Arista support.

Enhancements

  • CloudStack agent details. Netris reports meta information about the Netris agent running on a CloudStack host.

  • CloudStack agent IPv6 SLAAC. Adds support for IPv6 SLAAC.

  • CloudStack telemetry. Adds agent telemetry view in Network → Inventory.

  • Spectrum-X improvements. Support RoCE, Adaptive Routing, ASIC Monitoring, BGP graceful restart.

  • EC-SONiC support improvements. Support QoS for RoCE, Adaptive Routing, L3VPN, VLAN-aware V-Net.

  • Dell-SONiC Topology Validation.

  • Scale support for over 1000 VPCs and over 1000 DNAT rules. Netris can now manage over 1000 V-Nets and over 1000 DNAT rules.

  • Underlay link type toggle and IP address change in Terraform on existing links. When using Terraform, links can now be set to Underlay and back, and IP addresses can be changed without deleting and recreating links. Terraform will use the Update function.

  • Softgate HS supports Mellanox ConnectX NICs. Softgate HS can now be installed on servers with Mellanox ConnectX network cards.

  • Optimize BGP overlay for Hypervisor Integrated Fabric.

  • Improve Softgate PRO scalability.

  • Load Balancer is VPC aware, supports IPv6, and is horizontally scalable.

  • Improved breakout support. 1x800G / 2x400G / 1x400G / 4x200G / 2x200G / 1x200G / 8x100G / 4x100G / 2x100G / 1x100G / 8x50G / 4x50G / 2x50G / 1x50G / 2x40G / 1x40G / 8x25G / 4x25G / 2x25G / 1x25G / 8x10G / 4x10G / 2x10G / 1x10G.

  • Improved interface stats aggregation. Controller now shows bps, pps, and errors for aggregated interfaces based on data from member ports.

  • Collect VNI bps/pps stats for Softgate HS BGP peers.

  • REST API changes.

  • Dell-SONiC is now supported in CloudSim.

  • Network links can be edited.

  • Softgate HS Maintenance Mode.

Note

Some features are limited to specific platforms, as described in the Netris supported functionality and platforms matrix.

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