progress update

it has been a while since we released 1.5.0 and as the next version will be at least a week, but probably more like 3 away, I decided to write this small update.

with the help of some guinea pigs at the office we managed to find and squash quite a few simple bugs in version 1.5.0. Unfortunately, I fixed these issues in the same cvs commit in which I broke the controlplane. If I had been smarter a 1.5.0.1 would have been out by last week. My apologies.

Because of the big changes the next version will be 1.5.1 . What will be different? The first phase of the reduced memory footprint is implemented, initial IXP support is being implemented and we took out the not-so-scalable old controlplane. The replacement is based on simple bitpipes across (PCI, ethernet, userspace/kernel) over which a routed RPC protocol is sent. This is a bit heavyweight for simple applications, but necessary if we want to do distributed processing or even want to use a couple of smart NICS.

That's it for now. Be in touch through the mailing list if you have any questions.