release candidate 24.03-rc1

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v24.03-rc1-106-g2a0244d611


* Build CI on Fedora 30,37,38,39 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 9.3  kernel: 5.14.0-362.2.1.el9_3.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.4.1 20230605 (Red Hat 11.4.1-2)
       RHEL 9.0  kernel: 4.18.0-348.el8.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.2.1 20230214 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9) (GCC)


Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
     - firmware version: 26.40.1000
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.01-0.3.3.5


Regards,
Thinh Tran


On 2/22/2024 1:35 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.03-rc1
> 
> There are 521 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_03.html
> 
> Highlights of 24.03-rc1:
> 	- argument parsing library
> 	- dynamic logging standardized
> 	- HiSilicon UACCE bus
> 	- Tx queue query
> 	- flow matching with random and field comparison
> 	- flow action NAT64
> 	- more cleanups to prepare MSVC build
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 24.03-rc2 will be out as soon as possible.
> Priority is on features announced in the roadmap:
> 	https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
>