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<p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">> -----Original Message-----</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">>
</span><span style="color:black">From: </span></b></a><span style="color:black">Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net><br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">> </span><span style="color:black">Date:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 6:35<br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">> </span><span style="color:black">To:
</span></b><span style="color:black">announce@dpdk.org <announce@dpdk.org><br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">> </span><span style="color:black">Subject:
</span></b><span style="color:black">release candidate 25.03-rc3</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:<br>
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</span><a href="https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.03-rc3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.03-rc3</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">There are 71 new patches in this snapshot.<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Release notes:<br>
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</span><a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please test and report new issues on
</span><a href="https://bugs.dpdk.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://bugs.dpdk.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If no major blocker is discovered,<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">this release cycle may be closed at the end of the week.<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you everyone</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware this release:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">- Basic functionality:</span><br>
<span style="background:white"> Send and receive multiple types of traffic. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">- testpmd xstats counter test. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">- testpmd timestamp test. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- RTE flow tests:</span><br>
<span style="background:white"> </span></span><a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads" title="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0086F0">https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">- RSS testing.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Checksum and TSO tests.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- ptype reporting.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Multi process testing using multi process example applications.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Hardware LRO tests. </span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Buffer Split.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">- Tx scheduling.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We don't see new issues caused by changes in this release.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">Kindest Regards,</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Wael Abualrub</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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