DPDK 24.11 released

DPDK 24.11 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new major release is available:
	https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-24.11.tar.xz

It was a busy release cycle:
	1329 commits from 196 authors
	2557 files changed, 376587 insertions(+), 177108 deletions(-)

And it includes some API/ABI compatibility breakages.
This release won't be ABI-compatible with previous ones.
The new major ABI version is 25.
The next releases 25.03 and 25.07 will be ABI-compatible with 24.11.

The branch 24.11 should be supported for three years,
making it recommended for system integration and deployment.

Highlights of 24.11:
	- lcore variables allocation
	- bit set and atomic bit manipulation
	- AMD uncore power management
	- per-CPU power management QoS for resume latency
	- IPv6 address API
	- RSS hash key generation
	- Ethernet link lanes
	- flow table index action
	- Cisco enic VF
	- Marvell CN20K
	- Napatech ntnic flow engine
	- Realtek r8169 driver
	- ZTE gdtc / zxdh driver initialization
	- symmetric crypto SM4
	- asymmetric crypto EdDSA
	- event device pre-scheduling
	- event device independent enqueue
	- logging rework (timestamp, color, syslog, journal)

More details in the release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.html


There are 50 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
Welcome to Adel Belkhiri, Ahmed Zaki, Andre Muezerie, Andrzej Wilczynski,
Bartosz Jakub Rosadzinski, Bill Xiang, Chenxingyu Wang,
Danylo Vodopianov,  Dhruv Tripathi, Doug Foster, Gur Stavi, Hanxiao Li,
Howard Wang, Huaxing Zhu, Julien Hascoet, Jun Zhang, Junlong Wang,
Kiran Kumar Kokkilagadda, Luka Jankovic, Lukas Sismis, Lukasz Cieplicki,
Malcolm Bumgardner, Mateusz Polchlopek, Michal Jaron, Michal Nowak,
Midde Ajijur Rehaman, Mihai Brodschi, Niall Meade, Norbert Zulinski,
Ofer Dagan, Oleg Akhrem, Oleksandr Nahnybida, Peter Morrow,
Praveen Kaligineedi, Przemyslaw Gierszynski, Rogelio Domínguez Hernández,
Sangtani Parag Satishbhai, Slawomir Laba, Stefan Laesser,
Sudheer Mogilappagari, Thomas Wilks, Tim Martin, Tomáš Ďurovec,
Varun Lakkur Ambaji Rao, Vasuthevan Maheswaran, Vinod Krishna,
Wojciech Panfil, Xinying Yu, Yogesh Bhosale, and Yong Zhang.

Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
	221     Intel (60)
	158     Marvell (22)
	137     Napatech (3)
	107     stephen@networkplumber.org (1)
	 96     NVIDIA (15)
	 93     NXP (10)
	 85     Red Hat (3)
	 70     Corigine (9)
	 70     Broadcom (15)
	 54     Huawei (6)
	 34     Arm (5)
	 30     Ericsson (1)
	        ...

A big thank to all courageous people who took on the non rewarding task
of reviewing other's job.
Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top non-PMD reviewers are:
	 73     Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
	 66     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
	 57     Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
	 41     Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
	 31     Luca Vizzarro <luca.vizzarro@arm.com>
	 26     Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
	 26     David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>


The next version will be 25.03 in March.
The new features for 25.03 can be submitted during December:
	http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
Please share your roadmap.


Thanks everyone