Monthly Newsletter

Here are five things this month worth knowing about from the open source global community.

1. Main Announcements

• DPDK 21.11.6 LTS (Long Term Stable Release) is now available to download here. Thanks to the authors who helped with backports and to Nvidia, Red Hat and Intel who helped with the validation.
• Navigate the nuances of the LTS releases, their suitability for production, and the level of active support they receive in the latest guide here.

2. Events

• Thanks to everyone who attended our latest webinar the turnout was fantastic! If you missed it you can catch up here.
• Also thanks to everyone who provided their feedback, it looks like the preference for the next webinar is on the TCP Stack, followed by user stories, CXL (Compute Express Link), passthrough and SR-IOV with DPDK examples/ QUIC stack.

3. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• Check out our latest dev spotlight with one of the first DPDK contributors Anatloy Burakov here
• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

4. DPDK & Technologies in the News:

• Fast and reliable telco edge clouds with Intel FlexRAN and Real-time Ubuntu for 5G URLLC scenarios
• Rumors of Tungsten Fabric’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
• DynaNIC Software Eases SmartNIC Development | Electronic Design
• Accelerating network edge transformation
• Implementing the Intel DLB and Intel QAT Accelerators on ThinkSystem Servers Running VMware ESXi

5. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Latest performance reports
• Maintainer meeting minutes
• Gov board meeting minutes 

This newsletter is sent out to thousands of DPDK developers, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.

1. Main Announcements

• DPDK 23.11 is now available. Shoutout to the 40 new contributors! Read the overview here.

2. Events

• Register now for the upcoming webinar here
• Missed the recent DPDK Summit? Check out the videos here 

3. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• What are the advantages of choosing LTS? How does an LTS release impact the stability and life span of my network applications?

This detailed blog aims to shed light on these queries and steer you towards the appropriate release for your specific requirements.

Read it here.

• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

4. DPDK & Technologies in the News:

• Accelerating Ptychography Workflows with NVIDIA Holoscan at Diamond Light Source
• Atomic Rules Ships Arkville® 23.11, the Trusted and Performant Solution for FPGA PCIe DMA | CapEdge
• Ideco releases next-generation firewall for Enterprise segment
• Advantech Launches Edge Network Appliance Designed Ready For 5G & WI-FI 6
• Intel and Yealink: Innovative Video Conferencing Experiences with Security in Mind | AVIXA Xchange
• Student Research in the Spotlight at Undergraduate Research Symposium
• What Is Intel VT Technology
• NetScaler BLX certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Industrial Edge Innovation with Red Hat, Intel and Codesys
• Finding recently persistent flows in high-speed packet streams based on cuckoo filter

5. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Latest performance reports
• Maintainer meeting minutes
• Gov board meeting minutes 

This newsletter is sent out to thousands of DPDK developers, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.

1. Main Announcements

• New DPDK release candidate is ready for testing

2. Events

• Check out the 2023 DPDK Summit videos here 

3. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• DPDK Summit 2023: A Technical Synthesis of Networking Evolution
• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

4. DPDK & Technologies in the news:

• Portwell Announces the Market’s First OCP NIC 3.0 “Bypass” Network Card APTNC Series
• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) latency in Red Hat OpenShift – Part I
• Linux 6.7 To Update Intel IBRS Mitigation Handling To Enhance System Performance
• Save power with OVS-DPDK PMD thread load-based sleeping
• A guide to FlexRAN testing
• Innovating Together: OpenRAN Project Group Progress and Future Horizons – Component Subgroups

5. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Latest performance reports
• Maintainer meeting minutes
• Gov board meeting minutes 

This newsletter is sent out to thousands of DPDK developers, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.

Here’s five things this month we think you should know from the DPDK community. 

#DPDKSummit 2023

A big thank you to everyone who travelled from around the world to make this year’s event a resounding success!

Your participation, insightful discussions, and shared knowledge have enriched the community in so many ways. It’s through events like these that we continue to push the boundaries of networking technology.

Special thanks to our keynote speakers, members, the DPDK team and The Linux Foundation events team for their dedication and hard work.

The session videos are now live! Check them out here

2. Events

• #DPDKsummit videos are live! Check them out here 

3. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• New Community Labs: Enhancing Open Source Software Through Rigorous Testing: A Deep Dive
• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

4. DPDK & Technologies in the news:

• AWS open source newsletter, 173
• Juniper Networks Wins
• ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapter
• Ubuntu updates, releases and repositories explained

5. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Latest performance reports
• Maintainer meeting minutes
• Gov board meeting minutes 

This newsletter is sent out to thousands of DPDK developers, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.

Here’s four things this month we think you should know from the DPDK community. 

1. #DPDKsummit only 5 days left to register in-person or virtual. Registration is eclipsing last year, so don’t forget to secure your spot.  

2. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• New user story How Ericsson Leverages DPDK for Data Plane Acceleration in the Cloud
• New Dev Spotlight with Maxime Coquelin
• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

 3. DPDK & Technologies in the news

• SolidRun Unveils SolidWAN Line of Software-Defined Edge Network Hardware
• Suricata 7 Released First Major Version Update Since 2020
• Microsoft previews Azure Boost for offloading virtualized network functions
• Juniper Networks And Its Beyond Labs Vision

4. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Latest performance reports
• Maintainer meeting minutes

This newsletter is sent out to thousands of DPDK developers, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.

Here’s five things this month we think you should know from the DPDK community. 

1. Main Announcements

• Inside DPDK 23.07: A Comprehensive Overview of the New Major Release

2. Upcoming events

• #DPDKsummit Schedule Now Live
• #DPDKsummit Sep 12-13, 2023 Dublin location confirmed at the Gibson Hotel – register here

3. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• New Gatekeeper – Enhancing DDos Mitigation with Gatekeeper & DPDK 
• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

4. DPDK & Technologies in the news:

• SolidRun Unveils SolidWAN Small Form Factor SD-WAN Appliance
  
• Realizing the Power of Real-Time Network Processing with NVIDIA DOCA GPUNetIO
  
• Intel & Yealink: Empowering Hybrid Work with Innovative Video Conferencing
  
• Re: What’s New? IOS XE 17.9 Routing Release​ Update
  
• SolidWAN CN9131 is a compact SD-WAN appliance powered by a Marvell OCTEON CN9131 SoC
  
• Microsoft Announces Azure Boost, Enhancing Virtual Machine Performance
  
• How Cloud Packet Core meets three top telco priorities
  
• Boundaryless Container Management in a Multi-Cloud Paradigm – How VMware and Wipro are Helping Operators to Embrace Cloud Native Infrastructure
  
• Lucky Labrador Brew Pub » Calagator: Portland’s Tech Calendar
• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) Further Accelerates Packet Processing
  
• An introduction to smartNICs and their benefits
  
• Intel Leverages Telegraf to Deliver Platform Visibility | InfluxData
  
• Acrosser New Product-AND-DNV3Bx Dual 5G-ready white-box for edge uCPE and SD-WAN Appliance.

5. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Latest performance reports
• Maintainer meeting minutes
• Gov board meeting minutes 

This newsletter is sent out to thousands of DPDK developers, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.

Here’s 7 things you should know this month from the DPDK community.

1. Main Announcements

• New DPDK release candidate v23.07 is ready for testing: Release notes:
• There is a new library (PDCP maintained by Anoob and Volodymyr from Marvell), the existing reorder library got a new maintainer (Volodymyr again) and the PCI bus got new maintainers (Chenbo from Intel and Nipun from AMD)

2. Community News

• Suricata – 7.0.0-rc2 released including support for DPDK Bond PMD, many DPDK improvements: bonding interfaces, virtio, and more

3. Upcoming Events

• #DPDKsummit proposals submissions extended to July 9th, apply here
• #DPDKsummit Dublin, Sep. 12-13, 2023 – register here

4. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

5. DPDK & Technologies in the news:

• Red Hat Aiming To Address IBRS Mitigation Still Being Too Costly On Performance
• The competitive landscape of virtualized RAN and Intel vRAN Boost (Analyst Angle)
• Oracle Validate Druids Raemis 3GPP Compliant Enterprise core on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• HTTP Implementation to replace AMQP for Telco Event Bus
• 5G network rollout using DevOps: Myth or reality?
• Breaking free from legacy: A definitive guide to successful migration from VMware to KubeVirt- Part 3
• VelociData Builds a Hyperscale Network Data Fabric
• An Optimization Method of Large-Scale Video Stream Concurrent Transmission for Edge Computing

6. DPDK Help Articles

• Learn: How to select networking hardware for Scylla

7. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Latest performance reports
• Maintainer meeting minutes
• Gov board meeting minutes

This newsletter is sent out to thousands of DPDK developers, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.

Here’s 7 things you should know this month from the DPDK community.

1. Main Announcements

• The new point release of DPDK, version 22.11.4, is now available. 

This release includes bug fixes and improvements for better performance.

Get it here. 

Thanks to the authors who helped with backports and to Red Hat, NVIDIA and Intel who helped with validation.

• The roadmap has been updated for NVIDIA, Arm & DTS

2. Upcoming events

• DPDK Summit Dublin, Sep. 12-13, 2023 is coming up quickly, book your flights and hotels now. 

3. Social Poll Results

• Results from our social poll that may be of interest – Are you a developer who also enjoys gaming? 72% percent of the DPDK community love gaming/game when they have the time

4. Blogs, User Stories and Developer Spotlights

• Submit a blog here
• Submit a developer spotlight here

5. DPDK & Technologies in the news:

• Science Direct: A Compatible, high-performance and scalable user-level network stack
  
• vSphere ML Accelerator Spectrum Deep Dive –NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite
  
• Platform9’s Latest Release Cuts Costs of Legacy Virtual Machines by 50%
  
• Running containerized workloads with virtio/vDPA
  
• Debian — News — Updated Debian 11: 11.7 released
  
• Internal CPU Accelerators and HBM Enable Faster and Smarter HPC and AI Applications
  
• BrandPost: Direct Data Accelerator: The F1 that powers Yellowbrick’s Cloud Data Warehouse
• My Journey to the Clouds… Becoming a Cloud Native

6. DPDK Help Articles

• Coroutine made DPDK dev easy  Bob Chen

7. Performance Reports & Meeting Minutes

• Check the latest reports here
• Maintainer meeting minutes

This newsletter is sent out to DPDK members, it’s a collaborative effort. If you have a project release, pull request, community event, and/or relevant article you would like to be considered as a highlight for next month, please reply to marketing@dpdk.org

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.

DPDK Team.