Welcome to the Q4 DPDK Dispatch, your quarterly update on the latest developments, insights, and highlights from the open source community driving the evolution of high-performance network software and applications.
Main Announcements
- The DPDK Summit 2026 is confirmed and we’re looking at several European cities for the first week of June with more info to come!
- Heads up, the DPDK major release 25.11 LTS arrives next month with many new drivers
Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights
Check out a new hybrid project user story with Guvenc Gulce, Malte Janduda, Jaromír Smrček, and Tao Li who designed dpservice. Learn how dpservice combines DPDK, Kubernetes, and SmartNICs to deliver wire-speed, cloud-native.
See how Tobias Roeder at ipoque – a Rohde & Schwarz company uses DPDK to power 5G cores, UPFs, and secure edge infrastructure, in our latest user story.
Planning your next DPDK upgrade? Start here. New updates in 22.11.10, 23.11.5, and 24.11.3 strengthen LTS branches for production across telecom, enterprise, and cloud—backed by targeted fixes and broad community support.
Learn how to quickly clone the DPDK repository and run its end-to-end test suite (DTS) in just minutes. Understand the structure of a DTS test suite—covering setup and teardown, naming conventions, documentation standards, and practical examples using the DPDK TestPMD application.
Whether you’re a new contributor or a seasoned developer looking to understand DPDK’s testing framework, these videos provides a clear, hands-on introduction to DTS.
DPDK & Technologies in the news:
- How To Build Scalable And Affordable DDoS Protection
- Xsight Labs and Interface Masters Partner to Produce the World’s Highest Performance Enhanced Switch Appliance (EXA)
- Xsight Labs Partners with Edgecore Networks to Bring World’s First 800G DPU to a PCIe® Add-In Card Form Factor
- Debian 13.1 Released with Security Fixes and Stability Updates
- PcapPlusPlus: Your New Secret Weapon for Network Packet Mastery
- Latency Numbers Every Data Streaming Engineer Should Know
- Building a High-Performance Lock-Free Ring Buffer in C++ for Ultra-Low Latency Messaging
- Benchmarking C3 machine types for trading firms with 28Stone
- Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering
- Implementation and Performance Optimization of a DPDK Packet Gateway on Manycore CPUs[v1] | Preprints.org
- After raising 500 million rubles through bonds, information security developer Ideco marks IPO, mergers and acquisitions
- DPDK scalability analysis on Arm Neoverse V2
- Arm: When a barrier does not block: The pitfalls of partial order
Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes
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