Dec 9, 2025
2026 P4 TST Election Results
We are pleased to share the results of the recent 2026 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Bili Dong (Google), Shweta Shrivastava (Intel), and Steffen Smolka (Google) have been elected to two-year terms. The P4 community maintained strong momentum in 2025, marked by significant advancements from working groups and increased…
Nov 24, 2025
2025 P4 Workshop Wrap-up
Contributed by Fernando Ramos The P4 Workshop 2025 brought together researchers, industry leaders, and developers from across the programmable-networking community to showcase the latest advances in P4 and its expanding role in modern systems. Chaired by Fernando Ramos (IST, University of Lisbon), with support from Andy Fingerhut (Cisco), Denise Barton…
Oct 29, 2025
From Research Labs to Government Networks: The Journey of P4TG
Contributed by Fabian Ihle Modern critical networks increasingly rely on high-performance validation and testing to ensure reliability, resilience, and predictable behavior under load. Traditional traffic generators either depend on software stacks that struggle at high speeds, or on proprietary appliances that are expensive and inflexible. P4TG was developed to bridge…
May 15, 2025
Static Analysis Tools For Network-Device Stacks
Fabian has just completed his PhD at New York University with focus on programmable networks. He is now joining Xsight Labs where he will be working on the SDK for the X2 programmable networking chip. The following text is a blog post based on his dissertation, which is available here:…
May 8, 2025
Announcing P4 Projects Selected for 2025 GSoC
For the second year in a row, the P4 Project is taking part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025. We’re excited to share the projects hosted by the P4 Language Organization and would like to thank all the community members who volunteered as mentors. We’re also pleased to welcome…
