[dpdk-announce] DPDK 2.2.0 released

[dpdk-announce] DPDK 2.2.0 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

À l'approche des fêtes de Noël, la communauté DPDK est fière d'annoncer
qu'une nouvelle version est disponible:
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v2.2.0

The statistics are - again - impressive:
	797 patches from 100 authors
	709 files changed, 84203 insertions(+), 13473 deletions(-)

The participation is increasing a lot with 70 new contributors
(including authors, reviewers and testers):
Thanks to Aaron Conole, Amruta Zende, Andriy Berestovskyy, Chas Williams,
Christian Ehrhardt, Christoph Gysin, Claire Murphy, David Hunt, Des O Dea,
Dex Chen, Don Provan, Fan Zhang, Ferruh Yigit, Fiona Trahe, Flavio Leitner,
Francesco Santoro, Guo Xin, Harry van Haaren, Ian Betts, Igor Ryzhov,
Jerin Jacob, Jerome Jutteau, Jesper Wramberg, Jianbo Liu, Jianfeng Tan,
John Daley, John Griffin, John J Browne, Jon DeVree, Julien Meunier,
Lee Roberts, Marcel Apfelbaum, Marcin Kerlin, Mario Carrillo, Mark Smith,
Matej Vido, Mauricio Vasquez B, Michael S. Tsirkin, Mike Sowka, Ming Zhao,
Mukesh Dua, Na Na, Nathan Law, Nicolas Harnois, Pavel Krauz,
Piotr Bartosiewicz, Rasesh Mody, Raslsn Darawsheh, Remy Horton, Rich Lane,
Robin Jarry, Roger Melton, Rolf Neugebauer, Shesha Sreenivasamurthy,
Stephen Hurd, Thiago Martins, Tim Shearer, Tiwei Bie, Victor Kaplansky,
Vlastimil Kosar, Weichun Chen, Wen-Chi Yang, Xiaobo Chi, Xiao Wang, Xutao Sun,
Yaacov Hazan, Yongjie Gu, Yuanhan Liu, Yulong Pei, Yu Nemo Wenbin.

These new contributors are associated with these domain names:
6wind.com, akamai.com, alibaba-inc.com, anritsu.com, arccn.ru, asaltech.com,
atendesoftware.pl, bigswitch.com, bivio.net, broadcom.com, brocade.com,
canonical.com, caviumnetworks.com, cisco.com, ctbri.com.cn, ezchip.com, 
gmail.com, hpe.com, intel.com, linaro.org, luminatewireless.com,
mail.ustc.edu.cn, mellanox.com, netronome.com, nokia.com, outscale.com, 
overturenetworks.com, qlogic.com, redhat.com, rehivetech.com,
ruckuswireless.com, semihalf.com, studenti.polito.it, vault24.org.

Changelog (main enhancements since 2.1.0):
	* ARM v7
	* ARM v8
	* ring freeing
	* keep alive monitoring
	* more sched subports
	* extended statistics
	* get queue information
	* precision time protocol with Intel devices
	* TSO with igb, fm10k
	* Rx interrupt with e1000 and i40e
	* vector optimizations for i40e, fm10k and virtio
	* vhost multi-queue
	* Mellanox mlx5 networking driver
	* Netronome nfp networking driver
	* szedata2 100G networking driver
	* crypto API (experimental)
	* Intel AES-NI multi-buffer crypto driver
	* Intel QuickAssist crypto driver
	* option -d works with directories
	* more in packet framework
	* ethtool example
	* l-thread example
	* standard make install

More details in the release notes:
	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.html

The new features for the 2.3 cycle must be submitted before February.
The features properly reviewed and approved before March 3rd will be part
of the next release.

May the force be with DPDK!