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Aug 6, 2026

P4 Ambassador Cohort Announced

We are happy to announce the first members of the inaugural P4 Ambassador cohort! We received many applications but these nine individuals embody what we’ve been looking for. They are dedicated community leaders who will foster growth, drive technical contributions, and uphold the values of the P4 ecosystem. Ambassadors Ambassador…

Aug 3, 2026

P4 GSoC 2026 | Project Feature: Enhancing P4-SpecTec Usability: A Mechanized Specification for Nano-P4

In this blog series, we are presenting the five P4 projects accepted for this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The fourth one is Enhancing P4-SpecTec Usability: A Mechanized Specification for Nano-P4. GSoC Project Enhancing P4-SpecTec Usability: A Mechanized Specification for Nano-P4 P4-SpecTec provides mechanized formal semantics for the P4…

Jul 27, 2026

P4 GSoC 2026 | Project Feature: Improving The Traffic Manager of the P4Sim Switch

In this blog series, we are presenting the five P4 projects accepted for this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The third one is Improving The Traffic Manager of the P4Sim Switch. GSoC Project Improving The Traffic Manager of the P4Sim Switch P4sim is a high-performance simulation framework that brings…

Jul 21, 2026

P4 API Working Group: New Co-Chair

Meet Matthew Lam, the new co-chair for the P4 API Working Group.

Jul 20, 2026

P4 GSoC 2026 | Project Feature: BMv2 Packet Trace Support

In this blog series, we are presenting the five P4 projects accepted for this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The second one is BMv2 Packet Trace Support. GSoC Project BMv2 Packet Trace Support BMv2 currently provides only textual logs for tracing packets through a P4 pipeline, which must be…