New and changed features for Cisco IOS XR, Release 5.3.x

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Features Added and Changed in Release 5.3.x

Table 1. New and Changed Features

Feature

Changed in Release

Where Documented

Routing Features

OSPF strict-mode Support for BFD Dampening

Release 5.3.2

OSPF FIB Download Notification

Release 5.3.2

RPL - if prefix is-best-path / is-best-multipath

Release 5.3.2

BGP DMZ aggregate bandwidth

Release 5.3.2

Segment Routing OSPF and LDP Interworking

Release 5.3.2

NLRI Policy Support in BGP Flowspec

Release 5.3.2

BGP Graceful Maintenance

Release 5.3.2

Per Neighbor TCP MSS

Release 5.3.2

Configuring and Verifying Segment Routing for TE

Release 5.3.1

BGP Maximum Prefix - Discard Extra Paths

Release 5.3.1

Implementing BGP chapter

L3VPN iBGP-PE-CE

Release 5.3.1

Source route tag

Release 5.3.1

BFD over Bundles CISCO/IETF Mode Support on a Per Bundle Basis

Release 5.3.1

Segment Routing Support for IPv6

Release 5.3.1

LISP Data plane RLOC security IPv6 RLOC

Release 5.3.0

OSPFv2 Segment Routing Topology Independent Fast Reroute

Release 5.3.0

64 ECMP

Release 5.3.0

Echo Timer

Release 5.3.0

Interface and Hardware Component Features

Bundle Ethernet Interface scale enhancement

Release 5.3.0

Broadband Network Gateway Features

Support for Service Accounting on Line Card Subscriber Interfaces

Release 5.3.2

Excessive Punt Flow Trap for A9K-8x100G-LB-SE and A9K-8x100G-LB-TR line cards.

Release 5.3.2

Parameterized QoS (PQoS) for line card subscribers.

Release 5.3.2

Geo Redundancy for PPPoE sessions.

Release 5.3.2

RADIUS over IPv6

Release 5.3.1

BNG Subscriber Templates

Release 5.3.0

DIAMETER Support in BNG

Release 5.3.0

Excessive Punt Flow Trap (EPFT)Enhancements

Release 5.3.0

L2VPN and Ethernet Services Features

MAC Move Counters

Release 5.3.2

BGP RFC3107 Support for Pseudowire Headend

Release 5.3.2

Non Revertive Behavior for LACP Bundle Interface

Release 5.3.2

Virtual Circuit Connection Verification

Release 5.3.2

VXLAN Anycast Gateway

Release 5.3.2

MPLS Layer3 VPN Features

IP-IP Tunneling

Release 5.3.1

GRE IPv4 Transport over MPLS

Release 5.3.2

Data Center Interconnect (DCI)

Release 5.3.2

IP Addresses and Services Features

NP LPTS Based Policer

Release 5.3.2

5-level ACL Chaining

Release 5.3.2

IPv6 Path MTU Discovery Support for Applications Using Ping Protocol

Release 5.3.2

IPv6 Virtual Addresses

Release 5.3.1

Smart Licensing for PMIPv6 LMA

Release 5.3.1

VRF-Aware LMA

Release 5.3.0

MPLS Features

Stateful PCE Enhancements

Release 5.3.2

Policy-Based Tunnel Selection for IPv6

Release 5.3.2

MPLS Top Label Hash for OAM Packets

Release 5.3.2

IPv6 Support in MPLS LDP

Release 5.3.0

Delegation of PCC Initiated Tunnels

Release 5.3.0

Multi Nexthop Tracking

Release 5.3.0

Quality of Service Features

TCP Establishment DSCP Marking/ Set IP Precedence/DSCP for NTP

Release 5.3.2

In Configuring Modular QoS Service Packet Classification section.

8 level Egress Priority

Release 5.3.2

In Configuring Low-Latency Queueing with Strict Priority Queueing

VPLS QoS (CRS)

Release 5.3.2

In Supported Capability Matrix and VPLS and VPWS QoS: Example - section.

IP DSCP support for IPv6

Release 5.3.1

See Supported Capability Matrix section in Configuring Modular QoS Service Packet Classification chapter in Modular Quality of Service Configuration Guide .

nV Satellite Features

Soft Minimum Active Links for Dual Home Topology

Release 5.3.1

ICL Fabric Port Monitoring

Release 5.3.1

Satellite nV Usability Enhancements

Release 5.3.2

Multiple ICCP groups for Dual host

Release 5.3.2

Dynamic ICL for Cisco ASR 9000v

Release 5.3.2

Access Bundle with fabric redundancy

Release 5.3.2

802.3ah Loopback on Bundled and non-Bundled ICLs

Release 5.3.2

ARP Redundancy Support for Dual Head Topology

Release 5.3.2

Multicast Features

Multicast CAC

Release 5.3.0

MLDP LFA FRR

Release 5.3.2

IPv6 Multicast over Point-to-Point GRE tunnels

Release 5.3.2

DNS-based SSM Mapping

Release 5.3.2

System Management Features

Consumption Model

Release 5.3.2

GPS ToD Support for NMEA

Release 5.3.2

Flex XR Install

Release 5.3.2

Overlapping Regular Expression

Release 5.3.2

Console Management Port (CMP)

Release 5.3.2

PTP support updates

Release 5.3.1

Clocking support for Cluster

Release 5.3.0

CPAK Support

Release 5.3.0

Netflow Features

MPLS Aware Netflow Support

Release 5.3.2

Export to IPV6/VRFv6 Address Host

Release 5.3.2

System Security Features

Network Configuration Protocol

Release 5.3.2

Layer 2 Lawful Intercept

Release 5.3.2

Overlapping Lawful Intercept Taps

Release 5.3.2

Implementing MACsec Encryption on the ASR 9000.

Release 5.3.2

Network Configuration Protocol

Release 5.3