DPDK 23.07 released

DPDK 23.07 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new major release is available:
	https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-23.07.tar.xz

The number of commits is not that big
but the number of changed lines is quite significant:
	1028 commits from 178 authors
	1554 files changed, 157260 insertions(+), 58411 deletions(-)

This release happens on July 28, and 23.03 was on March 31.
Later would be too late :)
It looks like more help would be welcome at any stage of the process:
feel free to give a boost in test, review or merge tasks.


It is not planned to start a maintenance branch for 23.07.
This version is ABI-compatible with 22.11 and 23.03.

Below are some new features:
	- AMD CDX bus
	- PCI MMIO read/write
	- new flow patterns: Tx queue, Infiniband BTH
	- new flow actions: push/remove IPv6 extension
	- indirect flow rule list
	- flow rule update
	- vhost interrupt callback
	- VDUSE in vhost library
	- more ShangMi crypto algorithms
	- PDCP library
	- removed LiquidIO driver
	- DMA device performance test application
	- DTS basic UDP test

More details in the release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.html


There are 37 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
Welcome to Abhijit Gangurde, Abhiram R N, Akihiko Odaki, Arnaud Fiorini,
Artemii Morozov, Bar Neuman, Bartosz Staszewski, Benjamin Mikailenko,
Charles Stoll, Dave Johnson, Dengdui Huang, Denis Pryazhennikov,
Eric Joyner, Heng Jiang, Itamar Gozlan, Jeroen de Borst, Jieqiang Wang,
Julien Aube, Kaijun Zeng, Kaisen You, Kaiyu Zhang, Kazatsker Kirill,
Lukasz Plachno, Manish Kurup, Nizan Zorea, Pavan Kumar Linga,
Pengfei Sun, Philip Prindeville, Pier Damouny, Priyalee Kushwaha,
Qin Ke, Ron Beider, Ronak Doshi, Samina Arshad, Sandilya Bhagi,
Vladimir Ratnikov, and Yutang Jiang.

Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
	252     Intel (45)
	225     Marvell (29)
	127     NVIDIA (28)
	 88     Red Hat (7)
	 73     Corigine (7)
	 54     Ark Networks (4)
	 53     Huawei (7)
	 32     Microsoft (2)
	 16     AMD (4)
	 13     Arm (3)
	 12     Broadcom (5)
	 11     VMware (2)
	 11     Trustnet (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:
	 44     Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
	 43     Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
	 38     David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
	 32     Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
	 31     Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
	 26     Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
	 21     Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
	 20     Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
	 16     Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
	 16     Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

More numbers? There are more than 300 open bugs in our Bugzilla.
The number of comments in half-done work (TODO, FIXME) keeps increasing,
especially in drivers code (159 lines found). Complete report is coming.
We must do more effort in cleaning such code.


The next version will be 23.11 in November.
The new features for 23.11 can be submitted during the next 2 weeks:
        http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
Please share your roadmap.


Don't forget to register for the DPDK Summit in September:
	https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/

Thanks everyone, see you in Dublin