25.11.3 patches review and test

[Kevin Traynor]

On 8/18/26 16:14, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> On 8/4/26 1:47 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 25.11.3.
>>
>> The planned date for the final release is 20th August.
>>
>> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
>> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
>> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
>>
>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v25.11.3-rc1
>>
>> These patches are located at branch 25.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>      https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> ---
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We ran the following functional tests with Nvidia hardware on v25.11.3-rc1:
> - Basic functionality:
>    Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
> - testpmd xstats counter test.
> - testpmd timestamp test.
> - Changing/checking link status through testpmd.
> - rte_flow tests (See https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html for 
> supported features)
> - RSS tests.
> - VLAN filtering, stripping, and insertion tests.
> - Checksum and TSO tests.
> - ptype tests.
> - link_status_interrupt example application tests.
> - l3fwd-power example application tests.
> - Multi-process example applications tests.
> - Hardware LRO tests.
> - Buffer Split tests.
> - Tx scheduling tests.
> 
> Environments:
> - NIC: ConnectX-7 / OS: Ubuntu 24.04 / Driver: DOCA-Host 3.4.0-085000 / 
> Firmware: 28.49.1014
> - DPU: BlueField-3 / OS: Ubuntu 24.04 | DOCA SW version: 3.4.0 / 
> Firmware: 24.49.1014
> 
> We don't see new issues caused by changes in this release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali
> 

Thanks Ali. I will add the release notes.
Kevin.