# F-Stack Release Note F-Stack is an open source network framework based on DPDK. 2022.09 F-Stack v1.22 1. Freebsd - Upgrade to FreeBSD-releng-13.0, support RACK and BBR. 1. F-Stack lib: - Support extra tcp stacks, RACK and BBR. Significantly improves the performance of large file transfer(more than 10 times) in high latency and packet loss scenarios. Thanks @FireAngell. - F-Stack support HPTS for RACK and BBR. - lo port is added 127.0.0.1 when freebsd init. - Fix #643. Fix a VXLAN issue. Thanks @agerguo - FF_USE_PAGE_ARRAY compatible DPDK 19.11. - Optimize random function in ff_compat.c @dingyuan - Enable net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack by default to improve concurrent performance. - Support zero copy while call `ff_write`, disable by default. - Fix the bonding issue. @Lorisy @agerguo - Fix the issue that `ff_netstat -r` can't show gateway6. - Fix compile error of micro_thread with gcc 8.3. @Xin Wang - to avoid compiling errors when gcc version >= 10. @ZZMarquis - Support FDIR. @hawkxiang - fix use after free issue in mbuf free. @Jianfeng Tan - Fix #568, Insufficient condition in ff_rte_frm_extcl function. @freak82 - Add IPv6 net addr parameters in config. @zengyi1001 - Add ff_regist_pcblddr_fun to regist a pcb lddr function in F-Stack to select source IP when as client. - modify struct linux_sockaddr same to struct sockaddr in linux. - Support IPPROTO_IPV6's `IPV6_V6ONLY` and `IPV6_RECVPKTINFO`. @hawkxiang - Support set multi virtual IPv4/IPv6 net addrs in config.ini. - Add support for multiple pci_whitelist in config.ini. @ibtisam-tariq - Add support to set interface name of each port in config.ini. @ibtisam-tariq - ff_syscall_wrapper.c: add linux_cmsghdr and its support in recvmsg add support for `IP_RECVTTL` and `IP_RECVTOS`. @FidaullahNoonari-emumba - Added F-Stack FreeBSD 13.0 support. @guhaoyu2005 - Add IP_MINTTL flag in ff_syscall_wrapper.c. @FidaullahNoonari-emumba - alows user to set dpdk log level from config.ini file. @Jawad-Hussain-23 - Fix ff_syscall_wrapper.c: in ff_recvfrom() in case of zero *fromlen, *from will not be filled with garbadge values. @Sarosh Arif 2. DPDK: - Upgrade to DPDK-20.11.6(LTS). - MLX5: modify if_indextoname syscall to support F-Stack tools. 3. ff tools - Fix bug of ff_ipc_msg_free in ff tools. - The ff_traffic and ff_top's -P argument support bigger than 38. 4. APP - Redis: Upgrade to Redis-6.2.6. @GlareR 5. example - Enable INET6 by default in helloworld. 2022.09 F-Stack v1.21.2(LTS) 1. F-Stack lib: - Fix #643. Fix a VXLAN issue. Thanks @agerguo - FF_USE_PAGE_ARRAY compatible DPDK 19.11. - Optimize random function in ff_compat.c @dingyuan - Enable net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack by default to improve concurrent performance. - Support zero copy while call `ff_write`, disable by default. - Fix the bonding issue. @Lorisy - Fix the issue that `ff_netstat -r` can't show gateway6. 2. DPDK: - Upgrade to DPDK-19.11.13(LTS). 2021.09 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. 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 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 not 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_` to run F-Stack tools. - `ff_traffic` support `-P ` to show traffic info of all processes. - `ff_top` support `-P ` to show cpu usage of all processes. - All tools can work in one time. 5. DPDK: - Upgrade to 18.11.5 LTS. 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. 2018.5 F-Stack v1.12 1. Fixed some bugs. 2. Nginx: host event supported. 3. kern_timeout: decrease the cpu usage of timer. 4. DPDK: upgrade to 17.11.2 LTS. 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.