v1.21.1

2021.01 F-Stack v1.21.1

1. F-Stack lib:

• lo port is added 127.0.0.1 when freebsd init.

2. DPDK:

• MLX5: modify if_indextoname syscall to support F-Stack tools.

v1.21

2021.01 F-Stack v1.21

1. F-Stack lib:

• Fix use after free issue in mbuf free. #565 #556 @tanjianfeng @zouyonghao @freak82
• Fix insufficient condition in ff_rte_frm_extcl function.
• Fix wrong msg_flags in struct msghdr after calling ff_recvmsg in a Linux application.
• Modify dump codes. @jinhao2
• Feature knictl. @pengtianabc
• Add configuration options symmetric_rss to set whether to use symmetric RSS.
• Add IPv6 net addr parameters in config. @zengyi1001
• Add ff_regist_pcblddr_fun to regist a pcb lddr function in F-Stack.
• Config: Support parse "--file-prefix"&"--pci-whitelist" for multi-processes. @hawkxiang
• Support rte_flow_isolate for multi lcore. @hawkxiang

2. Nginx:

• Fix some issues of nginx transparent proxy. @rolfliu

3. micro_thread:

• Add micro_thread_auto_adjust_thread_cnt. @WoolenWang
• Fix compile error of micro_thread with gcc 8.3. @Xin Wang

4. Tools:

• Fix a crash bug while use ff_ifconfig.
• Fix bug of ff_sysctl.
• Fix some other bugs while use ff msg.
• IPFW: supported IPv6. @zjwsoft
• Add ff_ipc_exit() to clean temp files in /var/ while run F-Stack tools arp/ifconfig/route/ipfw. @zjwsoft
• Add ndp tool for ipv6 neighbor. @chopin11

5. DPDK:

• Upgrade to 19.11.6 LTS.

6. Others:

• Update README.md. @soroshsabz

v1.20

2019.11 F-Stack v1.20

1. F-Stack lib:

• Fix some bugs. Corresponding upstream changeset from Freebsd releng-11.0/release-11.1/release-11.2/release-11.3/release-12
• Fix bug of bind and connect. @jin.hao
• Fix F-stack compile error in Red Hat 8.0 with gcc 8.2.1.
• Add IPv6 supported.
• Add make install, and you can not must set FF_DPDK and FF_PATH.
• Add FF_USE_PAGE_ARRAY compile switch in Makefile, turn on it will not use mcopy when transmit packetes from bsd to dpdk. @jin.hao
• Add vlan supported. @dragonorloong
• Add bonding suopported. Note: some bond driver can't work with multi processes.
• Add pkt_tx_delay parameter in config.ini.
• Add tx_csum_offoad_skip parameter in config.ini. @JayathS

2. Nginx:

• Upgrade to 1.16.1.

3. Redis:

• Upgrade to 5.0.5

4. Tools:

• Fix the crash bug while excute ff_netstat -n.
• IPv6 supported.
• Add make install, and you can use ff_<tool_name> to run F-Stack tools.
• ff_traffic support -P <max process id> to show traffic info of all processes.
• ff_top support -P <max process id> to show cpu usage of all processes.
• All tools can work in one time.

5. DPDK:

• Upgrade to 18.11.5 LTS.

v1.13

2019.11 F-Stack v1.13

1. F-Stack lib:

• Fix some bugs.
• Add interface ff_dup, ff_dup2``ff_ioctl_freebsd, ff_getsockopt_freebsd, ff_setsockopt_freebsd.
• Initial parameter proc-type can be NULL, default "auto".
• Add "idle_sleep" parameter to reduce CPU usage when no pkts incomming, add base_virtaddr parameter for some vms.
• Add arch arm64 compiler options.
• Support Container(Docker).
• Support vlan.

2. Nginx:

• Fix some bugs.
• Hook getpeername,getsockname,shutdown.
• Support "master_process off".

3. Redis:

• Reset cpu affinity when new process forked.

4. Tools:

• Add traffic tool.

5. DPDK:

• Upgrade to 17.11.4 LTS.

v1.12

2018.5 F-Stack v1.12

Fixed some bugs.
Nginx: host event supported.
kern_timeout: decrease the cpu usage of timer.
DPDK: upgrade to 17.11.2 LTS.
Binary: f-stack-binary-release.tar.gz (md5: 40076768ffd564d189fbb4ef0bdcf564)

Release-1.11 tag.

2017.11 F-Stack v1.11

1. Intel DPDK network I/O module.
2. FreeBSD Network Stack.
3. Nic offload: checksum(IP/TCP/UDP), TSO, VLAN, etc.
4. Network tools: sysctl, ifconfig, route, netstat, top, etc.
5. Firewall supported: ipfw.
6. Netgraph supported: ngctl.
7. Posix-like API: socket,event.
8. Coroutine API.
9. Python bindings for F-Stack: pyfstack.
10. App: Nginx/Redis supported.