Mission: E2 updates with first E2APv2.0 support and improvements in subscription interface in xapp frameworks.

Original primary goals: TODORIC-878 A1 mediator testing in nanobot; RIC-860 xapp testing nanobot enhancements: wider coverage of functionality, e.g., Subscription deletion // RIC-849 Second step of reimplementation of A1 mediator in golang, excl. A1AP-EI  // RIC-714 support for DMS REST interface in addition to DMS CLI // RIC-698 Switch from Redis 5 to Redis 6 // partially done only RIC-704 E2 check, validate and define how various overload and disconnect case are handled, incl. checking highload-results from dawn;  RIC-886 Support two SCTP streams in same association for global (support functions) and functional procedures (ric services);  RIC-916 new reconnect timer in E2 to reject new connect for x seconds; RIC-888 interface so that xApps can only query E2SMs with a given OID; RIC-722 + RIC-867 base support for E2APv2.0 (same level of functionality as before) in e2t, e2m, submgr, and nodeb-rnib; RIC-638 Adapt configuration transfer capabilities as defined in E2AP v2.0; RIC-383 Epic: implement E2AP RESET as per E2APv2.0; RIC-445 SSH container/pod that includes a RIC CLI ; RIC-870 helm3 in default deployment and move ric platform deployment to ric-dep; RIC-815 ric-dep documentation only in ric-dep and it-dep only has references ; RIC-827 support deployment of ric platform in different k8s namespaces to allow two parallel installations // RIC-808 List subscriptions by xApp debug interface; RIC-375 Remove support for ASN.1 (over RMR) based subscription in subscription manager (incl. xapp modifications) // RIC-705 update xappframework for c++ to change in xApp registration  // RIC-642 Add REST subscription support in Python framework

Planned F release highlights

Status 2022-05-05: From the 27 28 epics planned (link) we implemented 8 9 (link). 7 items have been moved out of the F release, e.g, because of implementation delays (link). Incomplete items: 12 (link). Additionally we fixed 18 bugs and small implementation tasks (link)

F release source code, container images and deployment instructions

The list of container images for the F release (link)

Code coverage: Code coverage reports (current coverage and list of components that need to set up Jenkins job for auto-generation of the reports as part of CI)