By Thomas Monjalon, DPDK Tech Board
A new DPDK release is now available, 21.05: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.05.tar.xz
It was a quite big cycle, as is typical with our May releases:
- 1352 commits from 176 authors
- 2396 files changed, 134413 insertions(+), 63913 deletions(-)
There are no plans to start a maintenance branch for 21.05, and this version is ABI-compatible with 20.11 and 21.02.
Below are some new features:
- General
- compilation support for GCC 11, clang 12 and Alpine Linux
- mass renaming of lib directories
- allow disabling some libraries
- log names alignment and help command
- phase-fair lock
- Marvell CN10K driver
- Networking
- predictable RSS
- port representor syntax for sub-function and multi-host
- metering extended to flow rule matching
- packet integrity in flow rule matching
- TCP connection tracking offload with flow rule
- Windows support of ice, pcap and vmxnet3 drivers
More details in the release notes: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.html
There are 41 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers)! Welcome to Alexandre Ferrieux, Amir Shay, Ashish Paul, Ashwin Sekhar T K, Chaoyong He, David Bouyeure, Dheemanth Mallikarjun, Elad Nachman, Gabriel Ganne, Haifei Luo, Hengjian Zhang, Jie Wang, John Hurley, Joshua Hay, Junjie Wan, Kai Ji, Kamil Vojanec, Kathleen Capella, Keiichi Watanabe, Luc Pelletier, Maciej Machnikowski, Piotr Kubaj, Pu Xu, Richael Zhuang, Robert Malz, Roy Shterman, Salem Sol, Shay Agroskin, Shun Hao, Siwar Zitouni, Smadar Fuks, Sridhar Samudrala, Srikanth Yalavarthi, Stanislaw Kardach, Stefan Wegrzyn, Tengfei Zhang, Tianyu Li, Vidya Sagar Velumuri, Vishwas Danivas, Wenwu Ma and Yan Xia.
Below is the percentage of commits per employer company:
Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top non-PMD reviewers are:
46 Ferruh Yigit
39 David Marchand
34 Andrew Rybchenko
30 Bruce Richardson
27 Maxime Coquelin
26 Viacheslav Ovsiienko
25 Akhil Goyal
23 Thomas Monjalon
22 Jerin Jacob
20 Ajit Khaparde
18 Xiaoyun Li
18 Anatoly Burakov
16 Ori Kam
12 Matan Azrad
12 Konstantin Ananyev
12 Honnappa Nagarahalli
11 Olivier Matz
11 Hemant Agrawal
10 Ruifeng Wang
The new features for 21.08 may be submitted through 1 June.
DPDK 21.08 should be released on early August, in a tight schedule: http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
Please share your features roadmap.
Thanks, everyone, for allowing us to close a great 21.05 on 21/05!