From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7991B59A for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:55:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB0C22215; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:55:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:55:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=r6HeLshs/H f7fQNd3kZEL1E/eBZeLYeY7rmlxeBtlug=; b=bLAXs7JMVHWCxtTh97aq/1hyw8 Sn+eIx3stDfMsEE8aI43jGcFUbzXffhtVLhecQp7qREsLgCipy7zIhu24RNNA3kL P2GSuUSjbAdGMV0JGZrBzJRtRSlh62An1iGqogK/xDmp0ZSCambZ1DAVWGFrfNRF 82nOdWK6sPnR7v8is= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-me-proxy :x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=r6HeLs hs/Hf7fQNd3kZEL1E/eBZeLYeY7rmlxeBtlug=; b=pfcgNFt/tZHCkrEW/BWaFt ZTIphdgljnmIsI1RT1wfUptcU1/OEspJjLR+KtND3uZVLVXLZ/g9pc8L7yDFgUa+ g6gviAvK5M03AydSGLE5C+HCZIyRdmoZJ2ts+LExUJlbBTn6CYMtEWzvXv2X2wLN UX+c55D/GwUbuCmZChBdS4JLlC+cu2IfB3u80JK3gVFoWYSgQZv71sj6wyvt1Vlv QJbAiCKERKUmj4c9sbUFTl4ZM7uMRyjxQb0ZIb/Tw/tM7eG4obU5u6pi/GbsA10x QY7DoBZVW+EjG35zsRWYimMBeMsfDb3UnjYte+sAY2Lfv4ex5Gqn/6ptw9TqoZCA == X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4F6A4E4675; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:55:18 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: announce@dpdk.org Cc: Kevin Traynor Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:55:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1727697.dln13cOto6@xps> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [dpdk-announce] DPDK 18.11 released X-BeenThere: announce@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK announcements List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:55:20 -0000 As good news never come alone, the Camp Fire is contained, and a new major DPDK release is available: http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-18.11.tar.xz The branch 18.11 should be supported for at least two years, making it recommended for system integration and deployment. The maintainer of this LTS is Kevin Traynor. The version 18.11.0 is one of the biggest release ever, with a record breaking number of authors: 1418 patches from 187 authors 1314 files changed, 139697 insertions(+), 40992 deletions(-) Below are some new features, grouped by category. General: - ability to use externally allocated memory - new hotplug features, including multi-process and PCI failure handler - extendable table and lock-free r/w concurrency in hash library - traffic pattern aware power management - JSON interfaces for power policy example and new telemetry library Networking: - MAC swap, MPLS encapsulation and metadata matching in rte_flow API - new networking drivers for Aquantia Atlantic, Marvell Armada and NXP ENETC - postcopy live-migration in vhost-user - vDPA sample application - classification, metering and crypto in SoftNIC (using Packet Framework) Cryptography: - new crypto drivers for Cavium OCTEON TX and NXP CAAM JR - PDCP in security library Event mode: - eventdev Tx adapter - new event driver by Ericsson: DSW (distributed software eventdev PMD) Applications: - noisy VNF forward mode in testpmd - FIPS validation application More details in the release notes: http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.html There are 73 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers). Thanks to Akash Saxena, Alan Winkowski, Alex Porosanu, Alexander V Gutkin, Anand Rawat, Andrzej Ostruszka, Ankur Dwivedi, Archana Muniganti, Ayuj Verma, Bei Sun, Brian Archbold, Brian Russell, Cody Doucette, David Wilder, Dekel Peled, Dharmik Thakkar, Dmitri Epshtein, Dong Wang, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Emma Finn, Eric Zhang, Evgeny Im, Faicker Mo, Gagandeep Singh, Geoffrey Lv, Hari Kumar Vemula, Hongjun Ni, Huaibin Wang, Ian Dolzhansky, Igor Russkikh, Jia He, Joyce Kong, Junxiao Shi, Leah Tekoa, Liron Himi, Malvika Gupta, Martin Harvey, Matias Elo, Murthy NSSR, Nikolay Nikolaev, Nithin Dabilpuram, Paul Fox, Paul Luse, Paul M Stillwell Jr, Pavel Belous, Pradeep Satyanarayana, Ragothaman Jayaraman, Ryan E Hall, Sabyasachi Sengupta, Shlomi Gridish, Shuai Zhu, Stewart Allen, Subrahmanyam Nilla, Szymon Sliwa, Takeshi Yoshimura, Tejasree Kondoj, Tom Millington, Tomasz Cel, Tone Zhang, Viacheslav Ovsiienko, Vikas Aggarwal, Vivek Sharma, Xiaolong Ye, Xiaoyu Min, Yanjie Xu, Yelena Krivosheev, Yogev Chaimovich, Yongping Zhang, Youri Querry, Yuval Caduri, Zhirun Yan, Zorik Machulsky and Zyta Szpak. Below is the number of patches per company (with authors count): 522 Intel (61) 233 Mellanox (13) 125 Cavium (18) 95 NXP (8) 50 Solarflare (10) 35 AT&T (2) 32 OKTET Labs (4) 31 Semihalf (6) 31 Microsoft (2) 30 RedHat (5) 29 6WIND (7) 25 ARM (7) 22 Aquantia (2) 21 Netronome (1) 19 Cisco (4) 17 Chelsio (2) 13 Samsung (1) 13 Marvell (5) 13 Broadcom (5) 11 Ericsson (1) Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top reviewers are: 111 Ferruh Yigit 60 Maxime Coquelin 56 Bruce Richardson 55 Shahaf Shuler 49 Yongseok Koh 48 Jerin Jacob 48 Andrew Rybchenko 45 Akhil Goyal 44 Anatoly Burakov 40 Qi Zhang 30 Bernard Iremonger The new features for 19.02 may be submitted until this Thursday, in order to be reviewed and integrated during December. DPDK 19.02 should be released at the very beginning of February. Thanks everyone PS: Do not forget to register for the US Summit in San Jose, December 3-4 https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-north-america-2018/