From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: [dpdk-announce] release candidate 1.8.0-rc2 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:36:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1473067.S4rcvcHcI1@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: announce-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Return-path: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" A new DPDK release candidate wait to be massively tested: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v1.8.0-rc2 This is the first release candidate (rc1 was a first step to integrate some important reworks). If everything goes well, the 1.8.0 release should be out in 2 weeks. Changelog (main changes since rc1) - fixes for: * ixgbe * i40e * virtio * vmxnet3 * pcap * kni * Ubuntu * Fedora * FreeBSD - enhancements: * upgrade ixgbe base driver with X550 support * upgrade i40e base driver * TCP segmentation offload * bonding mode 4 & 5 * default conf for each PMD * i40e configurable CRC stripping * i40evf RSS * i40e VXLAN * i40e mac vlan filter * i40e ethertype filter * i40e flow director * i40e link status interrupt * i40e VMDQ * Cisco VIC PMD * AF_PACKET PMD * virtio promiscuous * vhost library * power management in KVM guest * IBM PowerPC support preview * unit test to measure cycles per packet * distributor example * skeleton application * option to list enabled lcores * option to set master lcore * some clean-up of EAL * documentation guides generated with sphinx It's now time for stabilization, i.e test, fix but don't break it more ;) Thank you all for making it great. -- Thomas