release candidate 24.11-rc1

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v24.11-rc1-6-g90cb8ff819


* Build CI on Fedora 38,39,40 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 9.4  kernel: 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.4.1 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3) (GCC)
       SLES15 SP5  kernel: 5.14.21-150500.55.49-default
         with gcc version 13.2.1 20230912 (SUSE Linux)

Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
     - firmware version: 26.42.1000
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.5

Thinh Tran

On 10/18/2024 4:47 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.11-rc1
> 
> There are 630 new patches in this snapshot,
> including many API/ABI compatibility breakages.
> This release won't be ABI-compatible with previous ones.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.html
> 
> Highlights of 24.11-rc1:
> 	- bit set and atomic bit manipulation
> 	- IPv6 address API
> 	- Ethernet link lanes
> 	- flow table index action
> 	- Cisco enic VF
> 	- Marvell CN20K
> 	- symmetric crypto SM4
> 	- asymmetric crypto EdDSA
> 	- event device pre-scheduling
> 	- event device independent enqueue
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> Few more new APIs may be added in -rc2.
> DPDK 24.11-rc2 is expected in more than two weeks (early November).
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
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