release candidate 24.03-rc3

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 11:46 AM
> To: announce at dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 24.03-rc3
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.03-rc3
> 
> There are 153 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_03.html
> 
> As usual, you can report any issue on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> 
> Only documentation and bug fixes should be accepted at this stage.
> 
> DPDK 24.03-rc4 should be the last release candidate.
> The final release should be done on 27th if no surprise.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk24.03-rc3 all test is done. not found new issue.

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:  
 *Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu23.10, Ubuntu22.04.3, Fedora39, RHEL8.9/9.2, Centos7.9, FreeBSD14.0, SUSE15, OpenAnolis8.8, CBL-Mariner2.0 etc.
  	- All test passed.
 *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu22.04.3 and RHEL9.2.
  	- All test passed with latest dpdk.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
	- All test case is done. No new issue is found.
* PF/VF(igc): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
	- All test case is done. No new issue is found.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Power; IPsec; DLB; DSA dmadev: 
 * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
 * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
 * DLB: test scenarios including DLB2/DLB2.5
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
 * DSA dmadev:  - Execution rate is done. found the second issue.
# Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 8.0U1, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
 *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found. 
 *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No performance drop.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin