[dpdk-announce] release candidate 2.0.0-rc1

[dpdk-announce] release candidate 2.0.0-rc1

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v2.0.0-rc1

This is the first release candidate for DPDK 2.0.
It means we are entering in the RC testing phase.
Only fixes and cleanups will be accepted.

Changelog (main changes since 1.8.0)
	- enhancements:
		* ABI versioning
		* x32 ABI
		* non-eal thread supports
		* multi-pthread per core
		* port hotplug
		* jobstats library
		* reorder library
		* memcpy optimization
		* acl for AVX2
		* crc hash arch-independent
		* uio_pci_generic support
		* kni optimizations
		* vhost-user support
		* virtio (link, vlan, mac, port IO, perf)
		* ixgbevf RSS
		* i40e hash filtering
		* i40e nvgre offloading
		* i40e switch
		* fm10k driver
		* mlx4 driver
		* bonding mode 4 tests
		* bonding mode 6
		* Rx/Tx callbacks
		* unified flow types
		* remove old filtering API (flow director, flex, ethertype, syn, ntuple)
		* remove device arguments limit
		* add indirect attached mbuf flag
		* use default port configuration in testpmd
		* tunnel offloading in testpmd
	- fixes for:
		* build
		* big endian
		* cmdline
		* timer
		* lpm
		* pipeline
		* bonding
		* pcap
		* ixgbe vector
		* i40e

We are making good progress in organization and reviewing.
Please let's continue to sustain the reviewing effort.
You are welcome to check pending patches from other developers
in http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork and make some comments:
	http://dpdk.org/dev#review

Thank you everyone for making it possible.