[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 21.08 released

St Leger, Jim jim.st.leger at intel.com
Sun Aug 8 19:50:58 CEST 2021


Nice work by all! (This release should be called the Olympic Release, out just as the Tokyo 2020 games are concluding.)

Now go off and enjoy some well-earned summer holidays. 

Stay safe,
Jim


> On Aug 8, 2021, at 10:47, Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> A new release is available:
>    https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.08.tar.xz
> 
> Summer release numbers:
>    922 commits from 159 authors
>    1069 files changed, 150746 insertions(+), 85146 deletions(-)
> 
> It is not planned to start a maintenance branch for 21.08.
> This version is ABI-compatible with 20.11, 21.02 and 21.05.
> 
> Below are some new features:
>    - Linux auxiliary bus
>    - Aarch32 cross-compilation
>    - Arm CPPC power management
>    - Rx multi-queue monitoring for power management
>    - XZ compressed firmware read
>    - Marvell CNXK drivers for ethernet, crypto and baseband PHY
>    - Wangxun ngbe ethernet driver
>    - NVIDIA mlx5 crypto driver supporting AES-XTS
>    - ISAL compress support on Arm
> 
> More details in the release notes:
>    https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.html
> 
> 
> There are 30 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
> Welcome to Aakash Sasidharan, Aman Deep Singh, Cheng Liu, Chenglian Sun,
> Conor Fogarty, Douglas Flint, Gaoxiang Liu, Ghalem Boudour,
> Gordon Noonan, Heng Wang, Henry Nadeau, James Grant, Jeffrey Huang,
> Jochen Behrens, John Levon, Lior Margalit, Martin Havlik,
> Naga Harish K S V, Nathan Skrzypczak, Owen Hilyard, Paulis Gributs,
> Raja Zidane, Rebecca Troy, Rob Scheepens, Rongwei Liu, Shai Brandes,
> Srujana Challa, Tudor Cornea, Vanshika Shukla, and Yixue Wang.
> 
> Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
>    222     Marvell (22)
>    183     NVIDIA (26)
>    168     Intel (44)
>    100     Broadcom (12)
>     45     OKTET Labs (5)
>     36     Huawei (7)
>     35     Arm (7)
>     29     Red Hat (5)
>     20     Trustnet (1)
>     17     6WIND (3)
>     13     Microsoft (2)
>      8     NXP (4)
>      7     Semihalf (1)
>      5     UNH (2)
>      5     PANTHEON.tech (1)
>      4     Chelsio (1)
>      3     IBM (1)
> 
> Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top non-PMD reviewers are:
>    45     Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
>    34     Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
>    21     Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
>    20     Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
>    19     Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
>    19     Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
>    17     Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
>    15     Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
>    14     Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>    14     David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
>    13     Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
>    11     Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>     9     Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
>     8     Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
>     8     Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 
> 
> DPDK 21.11 will be a big and busy release.
> The new features for 21.11 can be submitted during one month:
>    http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
> Please share your features roadmap.
> 
> Thanks everyone
> 
> 


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