A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v19.11-rc1
There are 1045 patches accumulated in the master branch
since the last release. It is more than enough to have a new tag.
Note that this -rc1 is exceptionnally not feature-complete.
We are expecting more major features in the upcoming -rc2 (in 2 weeks).
The release notes so far:
http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.html
Please think about updating the release notes when you add a feature.
Highlights of 19.11-rc1, grouped by category:
General:
- prepare for 1 year without ABI breakage
- dynamic mbuf
- eBPF arm64 JIT
Networking:
- Hisilicon hns3 driver
- NXP PFE driver
- virtio packed ring optimizations
Cryptography:
- session-less asymmetric crypto
- Marvell Nitrox driver
- Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto driver
- IPsec SAD API
Applications:
- IOAT example
- several examples are removed
We will close this release cycle before the end of November.
DPDK 19.11-rc2 is expected on 8th of November.
Thank you everyone
