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This release notes document is for the latest Spirent TestCenter software base packages, test packages, and hardware. Click the attached PDF to open the release notes.
The following is a partial list of new content that is being introduced as part of this release.
The New Features document includes detailed descriptions of each new feature and many helpful GUI screen captures. 
Spirent AION

• Spirent Hardware with Spirent AION Licensing​
  • Extended support to PX3 and MX3 hardware​
  • Added platform migration tooling​

• Additional NRZ speeds of 40G and AN/LT support for 100/50/40/25G NRZ speeds on the following models. ​
  • Test modules: ​PX3-400GS-T2, DX3-400GS-T2, PX3-QSFP-DD-2 and DX3-QSFP-DD-2​
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  • Appliances​: PX3-QSFP-DD-8 and DX3-QSFP-DD-8​
• ​Extend XStream performance mode and scale enhancement mode to 4x100G mode on PX3-QSFP-DD-2​
  • Support 1x2 and 4x2 LAG profiles supported at 4x100G mode

• PX3-QSFP28-12
  • Extend User Defined Counters and User Defined Capture Counter to 10G and 25G speed modes

• Spirent 802.11ax 6GHz Wi-Fi 6/6E C50 High Radio Count (HRC) Appliance ​
  • C50-KIT-11AX-6E​
  • C50 4-Port 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M Ethernet Copper, 802.11AX Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band NICs for 20 OFDMA/MU Clients, 2x2 MIMO, 2.4GHz/5GHz/6GHz, and HW Timing ​
• Spirent C50 WLAN 802.11AX Tri-Band 6GHz Wi-Fi 6/6E Appliance ​
  • C50-KIT-11AX-8​
  • C50 4-Port 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M Copper, 802.11AX Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band Wi-Fi NICs, 2.4GHZ/5GHZ/6GHz, DFS Radar Signal Emulation and Testing, and HW Timing

• L2TP Hello Message Multiple Retries
  • Added support for multiple retries of L2TP hello messages for emulated LAC (L2TP access concentrator) and LNS (L2TP network server) devices ISIS LSP Generator Wizard ​
• Enterprise Profile Support for PTP​
  • Introduces Enterprise profile support for PTP to enable users to simplify PTP node specific configuration.​
  • ISIS LSP Generator Enhancement for SRv6 – Phase 2​
  • Can create SRv6 Node or Link MSD Sub-TLV, End X SID Sub-TLV, LAN End X Sub-TLV and SRv6 SID Structure Sub-Sub-TLV (for End SID, End X SID, And LAN End X SID)​
• SRv6 VPNv6 Wizard Traffic Binding​
  • Enhance wizard to support binding traffic for IPv6 VPN over SRv6 Core
• ISIS IPv6 Adj SID Manual Binding​
  • Added binding an MLS label to ISIS IPv6 link (adj)​
• ​VxLAN EVPN: VNI filter at BGP

• TSN TestCenter IQ profile support for existing QBv, Qbu and FRER​
  • Each profile supports health indicator, chart view, profile specific view and report generation

• Extend support to PX3-QSFP-DD-8 and PX3-QSFP-DD-2 hardware​

• • This release supports 400G port speeds in performance mode only​
  • Performance mode means that only two ports on each hardware can be used while Enhanced Layer 4-7 is deployed​
  • 400G sub-rates (200, 100, and 50G) and functional mode (enabling use of all ports with lower performance) will be supported in future releases.

• RFC 2544 and RFC 2889
  • Added new option to allow users to know iteration status during test execution

• Simplify Spirent TestCenter Virtual instance deployment via Terraform

• A limited functionality beta implementation of RFC-6349 for TCP benchmarking is available.