[dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.7.0 released

[dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.7.0 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release can be downloaded here:
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v1.7.0

Changelog (main changes since 1.6.0r2)
	- fixes for:
		* PMD as shared libraries
		* MAC addresses with ixgbevf
		* mbuf corruption with pcap
		* race conditions in timers
		* build errors
	- enhancements:
		* better default NUMA allocation
		* EAL PCI cleanup
		* VFIO
		* flow control configuration
		* MTU configuration
		* RSS configuration
		* more hardware filters
		* more counters
		* vectorized LPM
		* vectorized ixgbe
		* link, queue and rate management with ixgbe
		* multiple queues with virtio-uio
		* e1000/ixgbe base drivers upgrade
		* i40e
		* new testpmd engines
		* IP fragmentation / reassembly
		* link bonding library
		* ACL library
		* packet distributor library
		* packet framework library
		* factorized configurations
		* rte_malloc optimizations
		* rte_snprintf deprecated

Statistics for this release cycle:
	829 files changed, 112805 insertions(+), 14208 deletions(-)
	34 authors (from 6WIND, Intel and many others)
Thank you to everyone!

Waiting the next release, "SPEED MATTERS" contest will end this summer
and winners will be announced during IEEE Hot Interconnect:
	http://www.6wind.com/speed-matters-information
	http://goo.gl/VaL9Ps
And other events to come:
	http://dpdk.org/events

-- 
Thomas