[dpdk-announce] release candidate 21.08-rc1

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v21.08-rc1

There are 517 new patches in this snapshot.
This release cycle is short and should be small.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.html

Highlights of 21.08-rc1:
	- Linux auxiliary bus
	- Aarch32 cross-compilation
	- Arm CPPC power management
	- Rx multi-queue monitoring for power management
	- XZ compressed firmware read
	- Marvell CNXK drivers for ethernet, crypto and baseband PHY

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.

DPDK 21.08-rc2 is expected in less than two weeks.

Thank you everyone