May 2, 2024
The P4 Language Consortium Appoints Fabian Ruffy as Chief Architect
The P4 Language Consortium announces the appointment of Fabian Ruffy as its new Chief Architect. He is currently a PhD candidate in the systems lab at New York University and a member of the P4 Technical Steering Team (TST). Fabian is a long-standing contributor to the official P4 compiler and…
May 2, 2024
P4 Projects at Google Summer of Code 2024
We are excited to share details about the projects hosted by the P4 Language Organization for Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024. We appreciate and thank the P4 community members who have volunteered as project mentors and we welcome these four new P4 ecosystem contributors. GSoC is a global program…
Mar 12, 2024
P4 Joins Google Summer of Code 2024
We are excited to announce our participation in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024! GSoC is a global program that connects anyone interested in open-source contributions with open-source project maintainers. We are mentoring a variety of GSoC projects this year. Topics range from improving our documentation and tooling for the…
Jan 11, 2024
2024 P4 TST Election Results
We are delighted to announce the results of the recent 2024 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Nate Foster (Cornell), Steffen Smolka (Google) and Hari Thantry (Google) have been elected to 2-year terms on the P4 TST. We also would like to extend a warm thank you to outgoing TST…
Jan 4, 2024
P4 Becomes an Independent Project, Hosted by the Linux Foundation
From its humble academic origins, P4 has grown into a vibrant open-source project, with a dedicated community of researchers and practitioners united by a shared mission: to create a deeply programmable platform that puts network owners, not equipment vendors and standards bodies, in control of their networks. The Open Networking…
