[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.8.0 released

St Leger, Jim

2014-12-20 19:39:07 UTC

Fabulous work by all in the community! Thanks Thomas for pushing us along and getting it done! It's like an early holiday present :-)

Enjoy the holidays!
Jim

P.S. Sorry if this top-post offends anyone.

-----Original Message-----
From: dev [mailto:dev-***@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:30 AM
To: ***@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.8.0 released

A new DPDK release can be downloaded here:
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v1.8.0

For those who prefer using git for updates to the stable releases, the new branch "releases" will be updated when a new release is out.

Changelog (main changes since 1.7.1)
- fixes for:
* i211
* ixgbe
* i40e
* virtio
* vmxnet3
* pcap
* kni
* ring API
* bonding
* empty cfgfile
* packet framework table
* l3fwd-vf example
* multi-process example
* Ubuntu
* Fedora
* RHEL/CentOS
* FreeBSD
- enhancements:
* IBM PowerPC support preview
* option to list enabled lcores
* option to set master lcore
* logs rework
* mbuf rework
* TCP segmentation offload
* extended statistics
* default conf for each PMD
* upgrade ixgbe base driver with X550 support
* upgrade i40e base driver
* 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 enic PMD
* AF_PACKET PMD
* vmxnet3 performance
* virtio promiscuous
* vhost library
* bonding mode 4 & 5
* power management in KVM guest
* unit test to measure cycles per packet
* distributor example
* skeleton application
* removal of rte_snprintf and RTE_PCI_DRV_MULTIPLE
* some clean-up of EAL
* documentation guides generated with sphinx

The release notes are available online:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes

Statistics for this release cycle:
712 files changed, 101902 insertions(+), 29849 deletions(-)
54 authors
Thank you to everyone!

We tried to integrate almost all planned features in this release.
But waiting for every feature to be ready, leads to a late delivery.
From now, the integration cycle will be different because based on deadlines.
This is explained on roadmap page: http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap#cycle New features must be submitted before end of January.
If not properly reviewed and acked on 20th February, feature won't be in 2.0.

For now, let's celebrate this new release!
--
Thomas