Hello All, We'd like to invite you to try out Networking-vpp 20.01. As many of you may already know, VPP is a fast user space forwarder based on the DPDK toolkit. VPP uses vector packet processing algorithms to minimize the CPU time spent on each packet to maximize throughput. Networking-vpp is a ML2 mechanism driver that controls VPP on your control and compute hosts to provide fast L2 forwarding under Neutron. This latest version of Networking-vpp is updated to work with VPP 20.01. In this release, we've made the below changes: - We've dropped support for Python 2.7 and updated the code to work with Python 3.6 or later. - We've updated the code to be compatible with VPP 20.01 API changes. - We've added VPP API versioning support using 2 data files. They are API whitelist file and API CRC manifest file. At startup, the vpp-agent will check to see if the API signature is compatible with the installed VPP. Also, at runtime, only the whitelisted API calls will be allowed. - We've fixed an issue with the eventlet that caused problems when binding tap interfaces into Linux bridge - We've been doing the usual round of bug fixes, clean-ups and updates. The code will work with VPP 20.01 and the OpenStack Stein release. The README [1] explains how you can try out VPP with Networking-vpp using devstack: the devstack plugin will deploy the mechanism driver and VPP and should give you a working system with a minimum of hassle. We will be continuing our development for VPP's 20.05 release. We welcome anyone who would like to come help us. -- Jerome, Ian & Naveen [1] https://opendev.org/x/networking-vpp/src/branch/master/README.rst