Continued expansion of accelerator support (support for FPGAs, smart NICs, compressdev API etc.)

Additional hardware and software accelerator APIs added (bbdev, eventdev)

Technical Board created to aid technical decision making

(Cryptodev API)

Rapid increase in multi-vendor CPU and NIC support & increased OS distro packaging (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu etc.)

First multi-vendor CPU and NIC support & first OS distro packaging of DPDK (Fedora, FreeBSD etc.)

Helps to facilitate an increase in the use of, and contributions to, DPDK