From thomas at monjalon.net  Tue Feb 17 23:30:55 2026
From: thomas at monjalon.net (Thomas Monjalon)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:30:55 +0100
Subject: DPDK release candidate 26.03-rc1
Message-ID: <13563702.xXuK6brfV6@thomas>

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