DPDK release candidate 26.03-rc1

[Riley Fletcher]

IBM - Power Systems Testing
DPDK v26.03-rc1

* Build CI on Fedora 40, 41, 42 and 43 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issues found
* Performance: TestPMD single core tests on ConnectX-7, no issues found
* OS:- RHEL 10.1  kernel: 6.12.0-124.39.1.el10_1.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 MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7 25 GbE 4-Port]
     - Firmware Version: 28.47.1088
     - OFED 26.01-1.0.0

Regards,

Riley Fletcher

On Tue, 2026-02-17 at 23:30 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v26.03-rc1
> 
> There are 356 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.html
> 
> Highlights of 26.03-rc1:
> 	- ACL custom memory allocation
> 	- cryptodev 256-bit NEA/NCA/NIA algorithms
> 	- OpenSSL AES-XTS and SHAKE algorithms
> 	- BPF atomic XCHG instruction
> 	- no more format overflow in libraries
> 	- no more variable shadowing
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> We plan to release -rc2 in 2 weeks.
> 
> Thank you everyone
>