For the past three years, the DPDK developer community has honored some of the most outstanding contributions across the project over the past year. While things are quite different this year, we still wanted to take some time to call out some of the amazing success of our developers. While normally, the community meets together…
By Lincoln Lavoie, UNH-IOL, Principal Engineer A little more than 3 years ago, we set out to improve the qualities and capabilities of the continuous integration (CI) testing of the DPDK source code and new patches. Now, it’s not uncommon for testing to come last in the process, and sometimes it doesn’t receive it’s fair…
A new release is available: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.08.tar.xz This version could be named Twins: 20.08 is released on 2020-08-08.The other numbers are: 1175 commits from 159 authors 1199 files changed, 137604 insertions(+), 35611 deletions(-) It is not planned to start a maintenance branch for 20.08. This version as previous ones are ABI-compatible with 19.11. Below…
The DPDK Project Governing board held a "virtual" meeting on July 13th, welcoming both Doug Stamper from Microsoft and Marvell's new representative, Prasun Kapoor, to the board. Bruce Richardson (of Intel) rotated into the Technical Board representative seat, previously held by Thomas Monjalon (of Mellanox/NVIDIA), in Q3. Note, the Technical Board seat is rotated among…
We hope you are keeping safe and healthy, as we all adjust to the new normal we find ourselves in, with coronavirus and social unrest around us. We’re proud of the leadership of our technical community to tackle our own issues and moving to more inclusive language, removing divisive terminology (e.g master/slave) that does not…
A new DPDK release, 20.05, is available here: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.05.tar.xz It was quite a big release cycle, with: 1304 commits from 189 authors 1983 files changed, 145825 insertions(+), 29147 deletions(-) There are no plans (yet) to start a maintenance branch for 20.05. This version, as the previous one (20.02), is ABI-compatible with 19.11. Below are some…
Greetings DPDK Project Community: We hope you are managing okay and remaining safe and healthy as the coronavirus crisis has thrown the world into a frenzy. While many of us are used to working remotely and using online collaborative tools, we are having to adapt to new circumstances at home. It’s hard on everyone. The…
The latest DPDK release, 20.02, is now available: https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-20.02.tar.xz The statistics show a post-LTS ABI-compatible release: 820 commits from 156 authors 876 files changed, 59941 insertions(+), 22565 deletions(-) There are currently no plans (yet) to start a maintenance branch for 20.02. This release and the next ones (20.05, 20.08) are ABI-compatible…
Our 2020 event planning is taking longer than usual, given the current situation with the Novel CoronaVirus. We are working diligently to solidify plans for events throughout 2020 and will have information soon. In the interim, please read the below excerpt from the Linux Foundation’s official response regarding the situation and potential impact across all…
