[dpdk-announce] DPDK 17.08 released

[dpdk-announce] DPDK 17.08 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new major release is available:
	http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-17.08.tar.xz

Some highlights:
	- x86 requires SSE4.2
	- more ARM optimizations using NEON
	- service cores API
	- GRO library
	- traffic management API (QoS)
	- ethdev flow fuzzy match
	- ethdev flow isolate mode
	- lock-free Tx queue capability API
	- failsafe driver
	- cryptodev rework
	- eventdev burst mode
	- NXP DPAA2 eventdev driver
	- dpdk-test-eventdev application
	- eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd example

More details in the release notes:
	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.html

A lot of work was done during 3 months:
	1023 patches from 125 authors
	1018 files changed, 90842 insertions(+), 22245 deletions(-)

There are 38 new contributors
(including authors, reviewers and testers):
Thanks to Ashwin Sekhar T K, Balasubramanian Manoharan, Boris Pismenny,
Changpeng Liu, Cian Ferriter, Dahir Osman, Dariusz Stojaczyk,
Dirk-Holger Lenz, Gabriel Carrillo, George Wilkie, Harrison McCullough,
Herbert Guan, Ivan Dyukov, Jamie Lavigne, Jens Freimann, Jesse Bruni,
Kirill Rybalchenko, Leonid Myravjev, Mandeep Rohilla, Markus Theil,
Matan Azrad, Michael Lilja, Moti Haimovsky, Radu Nicolau, Ray Kinsella,
Robert Shearman, RongQiang Xie, Sangjin Han, Sha Zhang, Shachar Beiser,
Shahed Shaikh, Steeven Li, Tom Barbette, Tonghao Zhang, Vincent S. Cojot,
Wen Chiu, Xiaoyun Li and Xingyou Chen.

Below is the number of patches per authors grouped per company
(accuracy may be not perfect):
	423     Intel (53)
	130     Cavium (9)
	100     6WIND (6)
	 89     NXP (4)
	 75     Mellanox (9)
	 49     Broadcom (1)
	 31     unknown (8)
	 20     Chelsio (1)
	 13     Microsoft (1)
	 13     Brocade (6)
	 12     Solarflare (2)
	  8     Cisco (1)
	  7     Linaro (1)
	  7     CESNET (1)
	  7     Atomic Rules (1)
	  6     RedHat (4)
	  5     Samsung (2)
	  5     OKTET Labs (2)
	  3     Wind River (2)
	  3     IBM (1)
	  3     ARM (1)
	  2     Amazon (2)
	  1     Semihalf (1)
	  1     Netronome (1)
	  1     Napatech (1)
	  1     Huawei (1)
	  1     HP (1)
	  1     Big Switch (1)
	  1     AT&T (1)

The new features for the 17.11 cycle must be submitted before August 25,
in order to be reviewed and integrated during September.
The next release is expected to happen at the very beginning of November.

Let's continue the good work!
Thanks everyone