From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254A72E81; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:36:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com (mail-wi0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F57C231C for <announce@dpdk.org>; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:36:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wi0-f170.google.com with SMTP id bs8so19628346wib.5 for <announce@dpdk.org>; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:36:47 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=C52hdKgQLiYwOREVIkJHJaznHyMA5hGoK97MYqEJpM8=; b=drz9htU/LxKvvccMClkrPRX7d8jhJD0PrsbD3p3YcrUE+TlW/mu+SDXjpi0XhuQIX6 pb1S6sxSls/kSLnOY2j6z5d6MxtinqJJ+ilossU/Uho6OBFiTbaBj6WlGlVGKy6xSOBQ UEwVkxWfJuxyenp81c1h+0bH6H0M22WeNUG8W6Zev6QUaZdNF+txHvZRLoa2ErZDusx1 rfte48FCvDRpvznMEv0q7FpemU12bLmv/o98ihfB98LcbIW4vONykRZ0Ipv2zwjZTjsW mP3Rg/5pnuguEDsZCafs62ca73k39kkkrVjl3s7qV/vfZyrWQYwKBdXozOcia3ty2avw 4MZg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn3ExGVDqkPaC8h1dfvi8rh0VjWuHBApF4Yc8M7wbHSIKR1Hmv783MRh2TLeo3jDrgoXAxe X-Received: by 10.194.6.227 with SMTP id e3mr63391303wja.107.1417127807405; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:36:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u9sm12511165wjy.37.2014.11.27.14.36.46 for <announce@dpdk.org> (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:36:46 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> To: announce@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:36:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1473067.S4rcvcHcI1@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.17.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: announce@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Errors-To: announce-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "announce" <announce-bounces@dpdk.org> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:37:47 +0100 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 1.8.0-rc2 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:36:49 -0000 A new DPDK release candidate wait to be massively tested: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v1.8.0-rc2 This is the first release candidate (rc1 was a first step to integrate some important reworks). If everything goes well, the 1.8.0 release should be out in 2 weeks. Changelog (main changes since rc1) - fixes for: * ixgbe * i40e * virtio * vmxnet3 * pcap * kni * Ubuntu * Fedora * FreeBSD - enhancements: * upgrade ixgbe base driver with X550 support * upgrade i40e base driver * TCP segmentation offload * bonding mode 4 & 5 * default conf for each PMD * i40e configurable CRC stripping * i40evf RSS * i40e VXLAN * i40e mac vlan filter * i40e ethertype filter * i40e flow director * i40e link status interrupt * i40e VMDQ * Cisco VIC PMD * AF_PACKET PMD * virtio promiscuous * vhost library * power management in KVM guest * IBM PowerPC support preview * unit test to measure cycles per packet * distributor example * skeleton application * option to list enabled lcores * option to set master lcore * some clean-up of EAL * documentation guides generated with sphinx It's now time for stabilization, i.e test, fix but don't break it more ;) Thank you all for making it great. -- Thomas