DPDK release candidate 25.11-rc1

[Riley Fletcher]

IBM - Power Systems Testing
DPDK v25.11-rc1


* Build CI on Fedora 40, 41, 42 and 43 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 10.0  kernel: 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.ppc64le
         with gcc version 14.2.1 20250110 (Red Hat 14.2.1-7)

Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
     - Firmware Version: 16.35.2000
     - OFED 25.07-0.9.7

Regards,

Riley Fletcher

On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 16:45 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.11-rc1
> 
> There are 634 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 25.11-rc1:
> 	- EAL option to remap lcore IDs
> 	- inter-domain DMA
> 	- mbuf optimizations
> 	- mbuf tracking for debug
> 	- cryptodev PQC ML algorithms
> 	- ethdev link connector info
> 	- Huawei SPx hinic3 ethernet driver
> 	- Nebulamatrix nbl ethernet driver
> 	- NXP ENETC4 ethernet driver
> 	- Wangxun Amber-Lite txgbe ethernet driver
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> This -rc1 was supposed to be released 18 days ago,
> so we are late in the schedule, sorry about that.
> We should try to close -rc2 during the first week of November.
> It means we have less than 2 weeks remaining
> for adding new features in the drivers.
> Adding features in libraries after -rc1 would be an exception,
> but it is possible.
> 
> Thank you everyone
>