DPDK release candidate 26.11-rc1

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2026 9:45 AM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: DPDK release candidate 26.11-rc1
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v26.11-rc1
> 
> There are 698 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 26.11-rc1:
> 	- pile stack-like container and mempool driver
> 	- interrupt FD leak detection
> 	- VFIO API made internal
> 	- VFIO character device
> 	- Device Tree matching in platform bus
> 	- module EEPROM decoding
> 	- flow graph parser for drivers
> 	- RSA capability parameters
> 	- AMD AE4DMA driver
> 	- NXP i.MX95 eDMA5 driver
> 	- baseband statistics per queue
> 	- auto-detection of uncore power driver
> 	- graph profiling
> 	- eBPF validation tool
> 	- removal of deprecated API
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> We'll try to release -rc2 before the end of the month.
> That leaves us less than 2 weeks to add more driver features.
> Adding library features after -rc1 would be an exception, but it's still possible.
> 
> Note: Security updates for several LTS branches were released this week.
> To receive advance notice of future security releases, you can request to be
> added to security-prerelease at dpdk.org by emailing techboard at dpdk.org.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk26.11-rc1 all validation test done. found 4 new issues.

New issues:
  1. Bug 2074 - [26.11]i40e: mac_filter/test_add_remove_mac_address, remove_mac the change did not take effect.
  2. Bug 2071 - [dpdk-26.11]vswitch_sample_cbdma: No response at all when quitting vhost-user with CTRL+C
  3. Bug 2069 - [dpdk 26.11-rc1] multiprocess/test_multiprocess_symmetric_mp_packet second process coredump
  4. Bug 2067 - [dpdk-26.11]vm2vm_virtio_pmd/vm2vm_vhost_user_virtio95_pmd_with_mergeable_path_with_payload_valid_check: start dpdk-pdump in VM with virtio-0.95 protocol failed    -> has fix patch and merged
    https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20261022082618.2730417-1-david.marchand@redhat.com/

* Build & CFLAG compile: cover the build test with latest GCC/Clang version on the following OS(all passed)
  - Ubuntu24.04.5/Ubuntu26.04.1
  - RHEL10/RHEL12
  - Fedora44
  - FreeBSD15.1
  - SUSE16
  - OpenAnolis8.10
  - OpenEuler24.04-SP3
  - AzureLinux3.0

* Function tests: All test done and found 4 issues.
  - ICE-(E810, E825, E830, E835, E2100) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS/Switch/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
  - i40E-(XXV710, X722) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc. 
  - IXGBE-(E610, X550) PF/VF: test scenarios including basic/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc. 
  - IGC-(i226) PF: test scenarios including basic/RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/mac_filter/VLAN/VXLAN/RSS, etc.
  - IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
  - Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 9.0, etc.
  - Cryptodev: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
  - Other: test scenarios including AF_XDP, Power, CBDMA, DSA

* Performance test: All test done and passed
  - Thoughput Performance
  - Cryptodev Latency
  - PF/VF NIC single core
  - E810/E825/E835/E2100 NIC Performance

Regards,
Xu, Hailin