[dpdk-announce] DPDK 21.05 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new release is available:
	https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.05.tar.xz

It was a quite big cycle as usual with May releases:
	1352 commits from 176 authors
	2396 files changed, 134413 insertions(+), 63913 deletions(-)

It is not planned to start a maintenance branch for 21.05.
This version is ABI-compatible with 20.11 and 21.02.

Below are some new features:
* General
	- compilation support for GCC 11, clang 12 and Alpine Linux
	- mass renaming of lib directories
	- allow disabling some libraries
	- log names alignment and help command
	- phase-fair lock
	- Marvell CN10K driver
* Networking
	- predictable RSS
	- port representor syntax for sub-function and multi-host
	- metering extended to flow rule matching
	- packet integrity in flow rule matching
	- TCP connection tracking offload with flow rule
	- Windows support of ice, pcap and vmxnet3 drivers

More details in the release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.html


There are 41 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
Welcome to Alexandre Ferrieux, Amir Shay, Ashish Paul, Ashwin Sekhar T K,
Chaoyong He, David Bouyeure, Dheemanth Mallikarjun, Elad Nachman,
Gabriel Ganne, Haifei Luo, Hengjian Zhang, Jie Wang, John Hurley,
Joshua Hay, Junjie Wan, Kai Ji, Kamil Vojanec, Kathleen Capella,
Keiichi Watanabe, Luc Pelletier, Maciej Machnikowski, Piotr Kubaj,
Pu Xu, Richael Zhuang, Robert Malz, Roy Shterman, Salem Sol,
Shay Agroskin, Shun Hao, Siwar Zitouni, Smadar Fuks, Sridhar Samudrala,
Srikanth Yalavarthi, Stanislaw Kardach, Stefan Wegrzyn, Tengfei Zhang,
Tianyu Li, Vidya Sagar Velumuri, Vishwas Danivas, Wenwu Ma and Yan Xia.

Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
	352     Intel (54)
	262     Nvidia (24)
	220     Huawei (9)
	148     Marvell (18)
	 61     Broadcom (5)
	 60     Red Hat (5)
	 34     NXP (7)
	 31     Trustnet (1)
	 26     OKTET Labs (4)
	 21     Semihalf (2)
	 19     Microsoft (4)
	 16     Pensando (1)
	 14     BIFIT (1)
	 10     Xilinx (3)
	  9     Arm (6)
	  8     Emumba (1)
	  7     PANTHEON.tech (1)
	  7     Atomic Rules (1)
	  7     6WIND (4)
	  6     Alpine Linux (1)
	  4     Cisco (2)
	  3     IBM (2)
	  3     Amazon (2)

Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top non-PMD reviewers are:
	 46     Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
	 39     David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
	 34     Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
	 30     Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
	 27     Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
	 26     Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
	 25     Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
	 23     Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
	 22     Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
	 20     Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
	 18     Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
	 18     Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
	 16     Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>
	 12     Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
	 12     Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
	 12     Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
	 11     Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
	 11     Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
	 10     Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>


The new features for 21.08 may be submitted during the next 12 days.
DPDK 21.08 should be released on early August, in a tight schedule:
	http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
Please share your features roadmap.

Thanks everyone for allowing to close a great 21.05 on 21/05