Adding networking-recipe release notes for IPDK 24.01

Signed-off-by: Sabeel Ansari <[email protected]>

RELEASENOTES.md

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 # IPDK Release Notes
 
+## v24.01
+
+### Networking Recipe
+
+The networking recipe enhances and extends the functionality enabled in 23.07 release.
+
+#### Features and enhancements
+
+* Exception packet handling - Enhance Linux Networking with multiple VNI support, port to bridge association and VLAN traffic offload
+* Packet IO feature support to facilitate the exchange of packets between control plane applications and P4 dataplane
+* Supports active-backup use case of LAG on IDPF interfaces done via bonding driver (Intel IPU E2100 target only)
+* Supports both indexed and direct meters in policer mode
+* Security enhancements
+  * Upgrade from OpenSSL 1.1.1x to 3.x
+  * Library updates to address security issues
+    * Fixed in `gRPC` 1.59.2: CVE-2023-33953, CVE-2023-4785
+    * Upgraded `protobuf` to version 25.0
+    * Upgraded `abseil-cpp` to version 20230802.0
+    * Upgraded `zlib` to version 1.3
+* Build script updates
+* Documentation updates
+* Bug fixes
+
+#### Limitations
+
+* Link Aggregation Group(LAG) feature limitations:
+  * LAG configuration to be done via bonding driver
+  * LAG configuration mode supported from infrap4d is active-backup
+  * For active-backup at least 2 links should be part of one lag group
+  * ECMP and LAG functionality are mutually exclusive, they cannot co-exist in the same .p4 profile
+  * Number of nexthop table entries cannot go beyond 8K because now we put nexthop table in WCM table
+  * Tunnel non LAG packets, we need to add manually entries to tx_lag_table with action as bypass
+  * Underlay LAG interface/members should not be associated with any OvS bridge.
+* Packet IO feature limitations:
+  * Supports maximum of 2 vports and each port supports maximum of 4 rx and tx queues
+* Policer Meters feature limitations:
+  * No command line interface is available for deleting meter configurations
+  * Direct meter configuration is not completely displayed in IMC logs
+
 ## v23.07
 
 ### Storage