Release v1.4.22

FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in the Virtual Ethernet framework for Amazon EC2 F1 instances

With this release we are announcing support for jumbo frames in virtual ethernet framework in the AWS FPGA Developer kit. Developers using Amazon EC2 F1 instances can now use jumbo frames to get the maximum allowed networking bandwidth for the instance, delivering up to double the virtual ethernet networking performance.

Xilinx tool 2017.4 EOL timeline announced

We've announced the deprecation of Xilinx tools 2017.4. Follow the announcement in detail on our forum

Changelog

• Virtual Ethernet upgraded to support Jumbo Frames.
  • Update dpdk to v20.02 for virtual eth instance and dpdk to v20.08 and pktgen to v20.09 for pktgen instance
• Updated the end of life announcement table
  Xilinx 2017.4 EOL timeline announced.
• Updated docs to not include folder creation in s3 mb api call by @deeppat in #531
• Fix IPI build script and Pythonpath bugs by @deeppat in #535
• Ensure udev rules works if devices changed since creation by @xlz-jgoutin in #533
• Add option to allow "others" instead of "group" in udev rules by @xlz-jgoutin in #534
• Doc updates and test fixes by @deeppat in #538
• XDMA.ko build fixed for kernel version used on Ubuntu 20.04 by @jelicicm in #536

New Contributors

• @xlz-jgoutin made their first contribution in #533
• @jelicicm made their first contribution in #536

Full Changelog: v1.4.21...v1.4.22