About this Guide

The Oracle Communications Session Border Controller (OCSBC) and Oracle Communications Session Router (OCSR) Release Notes document provides the following information when applicable:

• An introduction to the full release
• An overview of the new features available
• An overview of the interface enhancements
• A summary of known issues, caveats, and behavioral changes

If any of these sections does not appear in the document, then there were no changes to summarize in that category for that specific release.

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Related Documentation

The following table lists the members that comprise the documentation set for this release:

Document Name	Document Description
Acme Packet 4600 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 4600.
Acme Packet 6100 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6100.
Acme Packet 6300 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6300.
Acme Packet 6350 Hardware Installation Guide	Contains information about the components and installation of the Acme Packet 6350.
Release Notes	Contains information about the current documentation set release, including new features and management changes.
ACLI Configuration Guide	Contains information about the administration and software configuration of the Service Provider Oracle Communications Session Border Controller.
ACLI Reference Guide	Contains explanations of how to use the ACLI, as an alphabetical listings and descriptions of all ACLI commands and configuration parameters.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide	Contains information about Oracle Communications Session Border Controller logs, performance announcements, system management, inventory management, upgrades, working with configurations, and managing backups and archives.
MIB Reference Guide	Contains information about Management Information Base (MIBs), Oracle Communication's enterprise MIBs, general trap information, including specific details about standard traps and enterprise traps, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) GET query information (including standard and enterprise SNMP GET query names, object identifier names and numbers, and descriptions), examples of scalar and table objects.
Accounting Guide	Contains information about the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller’s accounting support, including details about RADIUS and Diameter accounting.
HDR Resource Guide	Contains information about the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller’s Historical Data Recording (HDR) feature. This guide includes HDR configuration and system-wide statistical information.
Administrative Security Essentials	Contains information about the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller’s support for its Administrative Security license.
Security Guide	Contains information about security considerations and best practices from a network and application security perspective for the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller family of products.
Installation and Platform Preparation Guide	Contains information about upgrading system images and any pre-boot system provisioning.
Call Traffic Monitoring Guide	Contains information about traffic monitoring and packet traces as collected on the system. This guide also includes WebGUI configuration used for the SIP Monitor and Trace application.
Header Manipulation Rule Guide	Contains information about configuring and using Header Manipulation Rules to manage service traffic.

Revision History

This section contains a revision history for this document.

Date	Description
April 2018	Initial Release
May 2018	Removes DTMF Detection limitation on VNF Updates the "SIPREC Support for SRTP" item in New Features
May 2018	Adds Caveat stating no 'packet trace remote' on the Acme Packet 3900 Moves ACMECSBC-26311 to caveats Removes ACMECSBC-28444 Adds the High Availability issue and workaround to Caveats.
June 2018	Adds Supported Ethernet Controller table to Platform Support section. Removes known issue on ims-aka option Updates HDR, MIB and ACLI element with pre-alerting feature in 810M1. Adds Pooled Transcoding Caveat. Adds Pooled Transcoding Known Issues.
July 2018	Adds the Acme Packet 3900 IPSec Limitations Caveat. Adds the Known Issue about getting IPSec support for the Acme Packet 3900 and VNF Adds the IPSec license display on VNF Known Issue. Updates the Pooled Transcoding list of supported hardware/software combinations.
September 2018	Updates for SCZ810M1 Corrects KVM component version list Removes outdated caveat on monitoring KVM Kernel development for additional NIC support Moves QoS for transcoded calls caveat to "Older Caveats Fixed in This Release" Removes VNF limitation on DTMF generation Adds "New Features in 8.1.0M1" chapter. Updates typographical error within the Known Issues table. Updates location in full doc set of new features. Adds the VM initial boot Known Issue.
October 2018	TLS1.0 not supported by default in compatibility mode
November 2018	Updated cipher list for tls-profile.
March 2019	Adds "Maintain DSA-Based HDR and CDR Push Behavior" to "Upgrade and Downgrade Caveats". Removes T.140-Baudot Relay from the list of features unsupported with pooled transcoding.
April 2019	Adds explanation of change in HMR matching.
May 2019	Updates SIPREC Support for SRTP section to indicate full support. Updates "TLS Cipher Updates" to remove TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA384. Updates the Known Issues table for accuracy.
June 2019	Adds Daylong Transcoding Session Cleanup feature to New Features chapter. Adds OCOM incompatibility with IPv6 to known issues.
July 2019	Adds TSM SDK section to "Coproduct Support."
October 2019	Adds MSRP Known Issue to Known Issues table. Updates "Behavioral Changes," "Deprecated Features," and "SNMP/MIB Changes" to account for MIB object deprecation.
November 2019	Clarifies generic upgrade path statement Adds trace tool limitations to "Trace Tools" caveat.
December 2019	Updates Known Issues list