[dpdk-announce] release candidate 17.05-rc1

[dpdk-announce] release candidate 17.05-rc1

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v17.05-rc1

It is the first release candidate for DPDK 17.05,
which is going to be the biggest release ever.
There is already 782 patches so it is probably
big enough for a release candidate.

However it is not feature complete yet.
The major changes expected in rc2 are:
	- NXP DPAA2 drivers
	- Atomic Rules Arkville driver
	- PCI and VDEV bus rework
The priority focus is on moving to the new bus model.

You can read the release notes in progress:
	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.html
Some highlights:
	- mbuf rework
	- event driven programming model
	- software eventdev driver
	- Cavium OCTEON TX eventdev driver
	- Cavium LiquidIO driver
	- Wind River AVP driver
	- DOCSIS BPI+ crypto

There are a lot of patches pending in patchwork.
They are waiting for a review or a reply.
Please check how you can help making progress on these patches.

Thank you everyone

PS: DPDK is a Linux Foundation Project now :)