[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 16.04 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

The freshest April fish is there:
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v16.04

The statistics are stable:
	704 patches from 102 authors
	657 files changed, 60233 insertions(+), 17157 deletions(-)

There are 50 new contributors
(including authors, reviewers and testers):
Thanks to Alexander Matushevsky, Antonio Fischetti, Arek Kusztal,
Beilei Xing, Charles Williams, Chintu Hetam, David Verbeiren, Dawid Jurczak,
Deepak Kumar Jain, Dror Birkman, Eric Kinzie, Evgeny Schemeilin,
Gerald Rogers, Hannes Frederic Sowa, Ilya Maximets, Jakub Palider,
Jan Medala, Jerry Zhang, Jiangu Zhao, Kamil Rytarowski, Kyle Larose,
Lazaros Koromilas, Liming Sun, Maciej Czekaj, Marcel Cornu, Markos Chandras,
Michael Frasca, Michal Kobylinski, Mike Stolarchuk, Nachiketa Prachanda,
Nelson Escobar, Netanel Belgazal, Pavel Fedin, Ralf Hoffmann, Rami Rosen,
Raslan Darawsheh, Santosh Shukla, Sean Harte, Seth Arnold,
Slawomir Mrozowicz, Steeven Lee, Thibaut Collet, Tomasz Kantecki,
Vladyslav Buslov, Wojciech Andralojc, Wojciech Zmuda, Yi Lu,
Yoann Desmouceaux, Yury Kylulin, Ziye Yang.

These new contributors are associated with these domain names:
6wind.com, allegro-packets.com, amazon.com, arraynetworks.com.cn,
asaltech.com, bigswitch.com, brocade.com, canonical.com, caviumnetworks.com,
cesnet.cz, cisco.com, ezchip.com, gmail.com, harmonicinc.com, intel.com,
lightcyber.com, live.com, mvista.com, nofutznetworks.com, oracle.com, 
samsung.com, sandvine.com, semihalf.com, stressinduktion.org, suse.de, vp.pl.

Some highlights since 2.2.0:
	* virtio for ARM
	* new ena driver
	* new crypto drivers
	* stable crypto API

More details in the release notes:
	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.html

It is now time to prepare the next promising stuff:
	http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap
The new features for the 16.07 cycle must be submitted before 8th of May.
The features properly reviewed and approved before June 16 will be part
of the summer release.

Enjoy spring flowers!