[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 18.08-rc1

[Thomas Monjalon]

There was a typo in the subject:
it is the release candidate 18.08-rc1.

Sorry, being distracted because of the soccer world cup
won by France :-)


> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v18.08-rc1
> 
> It is the first milestone of a short release after the huge 18.05.
> The number of commits is small (570) and there is no specific feature
> to highlight, except a big work on vhost/virtio (in-order, packed ring, etc),
> a rework of softnic PMD, and some work on memory allocation.
> 
> The release notes so far:
> 	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.html
> Please think about updating the release notes when you add a feature.
> 
> Some features are expected in 18.08-rc2:
> 	- tap support in secondary process
> 	- 3DES support in AESNI_MB PMD
> 	- new compress drivers
> 	- noisy VNF forward mode in testpmd
> 
> Some planned features are postponed to 18.11:
> 	- new devargs syntax
> 	- failure handler for PCIE hardware hotplug
> 	- virtual device hotplug
> 	- add MPLS to rte_flow encapsulation API
> 	- add metadata matching in rte_flow API
> 	- libedit integration
> 	- clean-up of panic calls
> 
> Please be aware that there are some API changes in 18.08:
> 	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.html#api-changes
> 	* and the old ethdev offload API has been removed
> 
> 18.08-rc2 is expected during next week (around 25th of July).
> The 18.08 release should happen in early days of August.
> Hopefully we are not creating too much bugs in this short cycle.
> When finding a new bug, please report it on bugzilla:
>         http://dpdk.org/tracker/
> 
> Thank you everyone