Subject: [multipathtcp] Linux Kernel MPTCP stable release - v0.87

From: Christoph Paasch <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:30:53 +0200

Hello all,

we are happy to announce a new stable release of the Linux Kernel 
implementation of MultiPath TCP.

To download the source, or install pre-compiled Debian/Ubuntu-packages,
please visit:
http://multipath-tcp.org/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Release87

What is new in this release?
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The MPTCP v0.87 release is based on Linux Kernel v3.10. Its new features
compared to the v0.86 release are:

* Hardware-offloading support (TSO/LRO) - Done by Gregory Detal (UCLouvain)
* TCP zero-copy support (sendfile and splice)
* Support for NET_DMA
* Several performance improvements
* NFS is working properly
* Middlebox support has been improved
* TCP-urgent pointer is now bug-free - Done by Cristina Ciocan (Intel)

We would also like to thank all the bug-reports we received that helped
stabilize the code:

* Krishna Khanal, Varun Taneja (Citrix)
* Benjamin Hesmans, Gregory Detal (UCLouvain)
* Per Hurtig (Karlstad University)
* Shinkai Takumi (Okayama University)
* Ronald Velt (TNO)
* Ramin Khalili (T-Labs/TU-Berlin)
* ...

Contributors
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We would like to thank all contributors who provided code to this project 
since its beginning around 2008 (ordered by number of commits):

Sébastien Barré (UCLouvain, now at Thelis)
Christoph Paasch (UCLouvain)
Gregory Detal (UCLouvain)
Jakko Korkeaniemi (Aalto University)
Mihai P. Andrei (Intel)
Fabien Duchêne (UCLouvain)
Andreas Seelinger (RWTH Aachen)
Stefan Sicleru (Intel)
Lavkesh Lahngir
Catalin Nicutar (PUB Bucharest)
Andrei Maruseac (Intel)
Andreas Ripke (NEC)
Vlad Dogaru (Intel)
Octavian Purdila (Intel)
Niels Laukens (VRT Belgium)
John Ronan (TSSG)
Brandon Heller (Stanford University)
Cristina Ciocan (Intel)