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
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Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm.
DPDK Team.