2020: lsquic by the Numbers

The year 2020 was the fourth year that the LiteSpeed QUIC and HTTP/3 library, lsquic, has been available on GitHub under a liberal open-source license. The following list of numbers offers a snapshot review of 2020:

By the Numbers

10,400

Approximate number of lines of code by which the library grew (library proper in src/liblsquic)

90

New issues, of which

71

Have been resolved

65

Total number of lsquic releases

51

Minor releases

20

New pull requests

14

Major releases

8

New QUIC versions supported: IETF QUIC Internet-Draft versions 25 through 32

7

Old QUIC versions no longer supported: Q039 (that’s Google QUIC), IETF QUIC Internet-Draft versions 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31

5

New contributors

5

New QUIC and HTTP/3 extensions:

• Delayed ACKs
• Extensible HTTP priorities
• QUIC bit grease
• Timestamps
• Unreliable datagrams

Outlook for 2021

It finally looks like QUIC and HTTP/3 will become bona fide IETF standards this year! Our outlook for both our lsquic library and the Internet standards is therefore bullish.

Happy New Year from the LiteSpeed QUIC Team!