I tested below 18 scenarios on RHEL 9.4 host and didn't find any new dpdk
issues.

   - VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size):
   PASS
   - VM with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size) :
   PASS
   - VM with device assignment(VF) throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing: PASS
   - PVP vhost-user 1Q - cross numa node throughput testing: PASS
   - VM with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing: PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server(qemu reconnect):
   PASS
   - vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server(ovs reconnect): PASS
   - PVP  reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: PASS
   - PVP 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing: PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing: PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M): PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing: PASS
   - VM with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing: PASS
   - Host PF + DPDK testing: PASS
   - Host VF + DPDK testing: PASS

Test Versions:

   - qemu-kvm-8.2.0
   - kernel 5.14
   - libvirt 10.0
   - ovs 3.3
   - git describe
      - v24.11.4-rc1


   - Test device : X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)

Tested-by: Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>

Best Regards,
Yanghang Liu


On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 24.11.4.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 18th December.
>
> 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=v24.11.4-rc1
>
> These patches are located at branch 24.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>
> ---
> Aarnav JP (4):
>       common/cnxk: fix format specifier for bandwidth profile ID
>       common/cnxk: fix NIX Rx inject enabling
>       net/cnxk: fix Rx inject LF
>       net/cnxk: fix default meter pre-color
>
> Adrian Schollmeyer (1):
>       net/mlx5: store MTU at Rx queue allocation time
>
> Amiya Ranjan Mohakud (1):
>       net/vmxnet3: disable RSS for single queue for ESX8.0+
>
> Anatoly Burakov (5):
>       net/ice: remove indirection for FDIR filters
>       net/ice: fix memory leak in raw pattern parse
>       bus/pci: fix resource leak in secondary process
>       bus/cdx: fix device name in probing error message
>       bus/cdx: fix release in probing for secondary process
>
> Andrew Boyer (1):
>       doc: add Pollara 400 device in ionic guide
>
> Andrzej Wilczynski (1):
>       net/ixgbe/base: fix PF link state request size
>
> Anurag Mandal (1):
>       net/i40e: fix symmetric Toeplitz hashing for SCTP
>
> Ashok Kaladi (1):
>       net/tap: fix BPF with cross-compilation
>
> Bing Zhao (2):
>       app/flow-perf: fix rules array length
>       net/mlx5: move auxiliary data inline
>
> Brick Yang (2):
>       net/dpaa2: fix L3/L4 checksum results
>       net/dpaa2: receive packets with additional parse errors
>
> Bruce Richardson (11):
>       net/intel: fix assumption about tag placement order
>       net/ice: fix VLAN tag reporting on Rx
>       test/func_reentrancy: fix args to EAL init call
>       doc: fix display of commands in cpfl guide
>       net/ice: fix initialization with 8 ports
>       ethdev: fix VLAN filter parameter description
>       net/ice: fix vector Rx VLAN offload flags
>       net/fm10k: fix build with GCC 16
>       app/pdump: remove hard-coded memory channels
>       telemetry: make socket handler typedef private
>       net/ice: fix path selection for QinQ Tx offload
>
> Chengwen Feng (9):
>       dma/hisilicon: fix stop with pending transfers
>       test/dma: fix failure condition
>       net/hns3: fix overwrite mbuf in vector path
>       app/dma-perf: fix use after free
>       app/dma-perf: check buffer size
>       app/testpmd: fix DCB Tx port
>       app/testpmd: fix DCB Rx queues
>       app/dma-perf: fix on-flight DMA when verifying data
>       app/dma-perf: fix stopping device
>
> Chinh Cao (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix integer overflow on NVM init
>
> Christophe Fontaine (2):
>       graph: fix xstats description allocation
>       net: fix IPv6 link local compliance with RFC 4291
>
> Ciara Loftus (6):
>       net/iavf: fix Tx vector path selection logic
>       doc: fix feature list of ice driver
>       doc: fix feature list of iavf driver
>       net/ice: remove unsupported SCTP Rx offload
>       net/e1000/base: fix crash on init with GCC 13
>       net/idpf: fix queue setup with TSO offload
>
> Dariusz Sosnowski (8):
>       app/testpmd: fix conntrack action query
>       net/mlx5/hws: fix TIR action support in FDB
>       net/mlx5: fix indirect flow age action handling
>       net/mlx5: fix Direct Verbs counter offset detection
>       net/mlx5: fix min and max MTU reporting
>       net/mlx5: fix indirect RSS action hash
>       net/mlx5: fix error reporting on masked indirect actions
>       net/mlx5: fix flow tag indexes support on root table
>
> David Marchand (22):
>       test/telemetry: fix test calling all commands
>       eal: fix plugin dir walk
>       cmdline: fix port list parsing
>       tailq: fix lookup macro
>       hash: fix unaligned access in predictable RSS
>       graph: fix unaligned access in stats
>       eventdev: fix listing timer adapters with telemetry
>       eal/arm: fix C++ build for 32-bit memcpy
>       test/debug: fix crash with mlx5 devices
>       net/tap: fix build with LTO
>       cmdline: fix highest bit port list parsing
>       eventdev/crypto: fix build with clang 21
>       rawdev: fix build with clang 21
>       vhost: fix external buffer in VDUSE
>       net/dpaa2: remove ethdev pointer from bus device
>       bus/ifpga: fix const pointer in device name parsing
>       bus/uacce: fix const pointer in device matching
>       common/qat: fix some const pointers
>       crypto/caam_jr: fix const pointer in UIO filename parsing
>       net/enetfec: fix const pointer in UIO filename parsing
>       net/memif: fix const pointer in socket check
>       app/procinfo: fix const pointer in collectd format
>
> Dean Marx (2):
>       dts: fix docstring in checksum suite
>       dts: add reception check to checksum suite
>
> Dengdui Huang (4):
>       app/testpmd: increase size of set cores list command
>       net/hns3: fix inconsistent lock
>       net/hns3: fix VLAN resources freeing
>       net: fix L2 length for GRE packets
>
> Emma Finn (1):
>       crypto/qat: fix CCM request descriptor hash state size
>
> Gagandeep Singh (2):
>       bus/dpaa: improve cleanup
>       net/dpaa2: fix shaper rate
>
> Gavin Li (2):
>       net/mlx5: fix multicast
>       net/mlx5: fix IPv6 DSCP offset in HWS sync API
>
> Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan (1):
>       crypto/virtio: fix cookies leak
>
> Gregory Etelson (7):
>       net/mlx5: fix storage of shared Rx queues
>       net/mlx5: fix non-template RSS expansion
>       net/mlx5: fix interface name parameter definition
>       net/mlx4: fix unnecessary comma
>       net/mlx5: fix unnecessary commas
>       net/mlx5: fix external queues access
>       net/mlx5: fix send to kernel action resources release
>
> Hemant Agrawal (8):
>       net/enetfec: fix file descriptor leak on read error
>       net/enetfec: fix buffer descriptor size configuration
>       net/enetfec: fix Tx queue free
>       net/enetfec: fix checksum flag handling and error return
>       net/enetfec: reject multi-queue configuration
>       net/enetfec: fix memory leak in Rx buffer cleanup
>       net/enetfec: reject Tx deferred queue
>       net/dpaa2: fix duplicate call of close
>
> Itai Sharoni (1):
>       net/mlx5/windows: fix match criteria in flow creation
>
> Itamar Gozlan (1):
>       net/mlx5/hws: fix flow rule hash capability
>
> Jacob Keller (2):
>       net/ice/base: fix memory leak in HW profile handling
>       net/iavf: fix Rx timestamp validity check
>
> Jasper Tran O'Leary (1):
>       net/gve: free device resources on close
>
> Jerin Jacob (4):
>       net/iavf: fix build with clang 21
>       test: fix build with clang 21
>       app/eventdev: fix build with clang 21
>       lib: fix backticks matching in Doxygen comments
>
> Jiawen Wu (16):
>       net/txgbe: fix checksum error counter
>       net/ngbe: fix checksum error counter
>       net/txgbe: reduce memory size of ring descriptors
>       net/ngbe: reduce memory size of ring descriptors
>       net/txgbe: fix VF Rx buffer size in config register
>       net/txgbe: remove duplicate Tx queue assignment
>       net/txgbe: add device arguments for FDIR
>       net/txgbe: fix maximum number of FDIR filters
>       net/txgbe: fix FDIR mode clearing
>       net/txgbe: fix FDIR drop action for L4 match packets
>       net/txgbe: fix FDIR filter for SCTP tunnel
>       net/txgbe: filter FDIR match flex bytes for tunnel
>       net/txgbe: fix FDIR rule raw relative for L3 packets
>       net/txgbe: fix FDIR input mask
>       net/txgbe: switch to FDIR when ntuple filter is full
>       net/txgbe: remove unsupported flow action mark
>
> John Miller (1):
>       net/ark: remove double mbuf free
>
> Joshua Washington (9):
>       net/gve: send whole packet when mbuf is large
>       net/gve: clean when insufficient Tx descriptors
>       net/gve: do not write zero-length descriptors
>       net/gve: validate Tx packet before sending
>       net/gve: add DQO Tx descriptor limit
>       net/gve: fix DQO TSO descriptor limit
>       net/gve: clear DQO Tx descriptors before writing
>       net/gve: fix disabling interrupts on DQ
>       net/gve: free Rx mbufs if allocation fails on ring setup
>
> Jun Yang (3):
>       net/dpaa2: fix extract buffer preparation
>       net/dpaa2: fix error frame dump
>       net/dpaa2: fix flow rule resizing
>
> Junlong Wang (1):
>       net/zxdh: fix Arm build
>
> Kerem Aksu (1):
>       net/af_packet: fix crash in secondary process
>
> Kevin Traynor (1):
>       doc: fix NVIDIA bifurcated driver presentation link
>
> Khadem Ullah (5):
>       app/testpmd: monitor state of primary process
>       doc: add conntrack state inspect command to testpmd guide
>       app/testpmd: validate DSCP and VLAN for meter creation
>       net/mlx5: fix connection tracking state item validation
>       app/testpmd: stop forwarding in secondary process
>
> Luca Boccassi (1):
>       test/debug: fix IOVA mode on PPC64 without huge pages
>
> Maayan Kashani (12):
>       app/testpmd: fix mask in flow random item
>       net/mlx5: fix index-based flow rules
>       net/mlx5: fix default flow rules start
>       net/mlx5: fix use after scope of RSS configuration
>       net/mlx5: fix unsupported flow rule port action
>       net/mlx5: fix double free in non-template flow destroy
>       net/mlx5: fix non-template age rules flush
>       net/mlx5: fix flow encapsulation hash
>       net/mlx5: fix modify field action restriction
>       app/testpmd: fix flex item link parsing
>       net/mlx5: fix crash on flow rule destruction
>       net/mlx5: fix device start error handling
>
> Marat Khalili (1):
>       graph: fix stats query with no node xstats
>
> Mattias Rönnblom (1):
>       bitops: improve power of 2 alignment documentation
>
> Maxime Coquelin (3):
>       vhost: add VDUSE virtqueue ready state polling workaround
>       vhost: fix virtqueue info init in VDUSE vring setup
>       net/virtio-user: fix used ring address calculation
>
> Maxime Leroy (1):
>       net/dpaa2: clear active VDQ state when freeing Rx queues
>
> Megha Ajmera (1):
>       sched: fix WRR parameter data type
>
> Michael Baum (1):
>       net/mlx5: fix multi-process Tx default rules
>
> Nithinsen Kaithakadan (1):
>       test/crypto: fix mbuf handling
>
> Nupur Uttarwar (2):
>       net/mlx5/hws: fix buddy memory allocation
>       net/mlx5: skip Rx control flow tables in isolated mode
>
> Pandi Kumar Maharajan (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix memory leak in recipe handling
>
> Prashant Gupta (2):
>       net/dpaa2: fix uninitialized variable
>       net/dpaa2: free buffers from error queue
>
> Radu Nicolau (3):
>       crypto/qat: fix ECDH
>       crypto/qat: fix source buffer alignment
>       test/crypto: fix vector initialization
>
> Robin Jarry (4):
>       net/tap: fix interrupt callback crash after failed start
>       buildtools/pmdinfogen: fix warning with python 3.14
>       graph: fix updating edge with active graph
>       usertools/telemetry: fix exporter default IP binding
>
> Roi Dayan (3):
>       net/mlx5: fix leak of flow indexed pools
>       net/mlx5: release representor interrupt handler
>       common/mlx5: release unused mempool entries
>
> Ronak Doshi (1):
>       net/vmxnet3: fix mapping of mempools to queues
>
> Rongwei Liu (5):
>       net/mlx5: fix indirect flow action memory leak
>       net/mlx5: fix flow aging race condition
>       net/mlx5: remove counter alignment
>       net/mlx5: fix meter mark allocation
>       net/mlx5: fix indirect meter index leak
>
> Satha Rao (1):
>       common/cnxk: fix null SQ access
>
> Serhii Iliushyk (1):
>       net/ntnic: fix potential format overflow
>
> Shai Brandes (2):
>       net/ena: fix PCI BAR mapping on 64K page size
>       net/ena/base: fix unsafe memcpy on invalid memory
>
> Shaiq Wani (1):
>       net/ice/base: fix adding special words
>
> Shani Peretz (6):
>       eal: fix DMA mask validation with IOVA mode option
>       net/mlx5: fix MTU initialization
>       app/crypto-perf: fix plaintext size exceeds buffer size
>       net/bonding: fix MAC address propagation in 802.3ad mode
>       net/mlx5: fix null dereference in modify header
>       net/mlx5: fix Tx metadata pattern template mismatch
>
> Sivaprasad Tummala (4):
>       eal/x86: enable timeout in AMD power monitor
>       examples/l3fwd-power: fix telemetry command registration
>       net/mlx5: fix spurious CPU wakeups
>       examples/l3fwd: add Tx burst size configuration option
>
> Stephen Hemminger (9):
>       net/bnxt: fix free of not allocated object
>       test/argparse: change initialization to workaround LTO
>       dmadev: fix debug build with tracepoints
>       net/nfp: fix metering cleanup
>       pdump: handle primary process exit
>       net/mlx5: fix uninitialized variable
>       examples/server_node_efd: fix format overflow
>       examples/vdpa: fix format overflow
>       bus/fslmc: fix const pointer in device name parsing
>
> Sucharitha Sarananaga (1):
>       crypto/cnxk: refactor RSA verification
>
> Sunil Kumar Kori (1):
>       common/cnxk: fix max number of SQB buffers in clean up
>
> Tathagat Priyadarshi (1):
>       gro: fix payload corruption in coalescing packets
>
> Thierry Herbelot (1):
>       config/arm: enable NUMA for Neoverse N2
>
> Thomas Monjalon (12):
>       efd: fix AVX2 support
>       bus/pci: fix build with MinGW 13
>       net/mlx5: fix build with MinGW 13
>       bbdev: fix build with MinGW 13
>       test/hash: check memory allocation
>       vdpa/mlx5: remove unused constant
>       crypto/mlx5: remove unused constants
>       regex/mlx5: remove useless constants
>       common/mlx5: remove useless constants
>       net/mlx5: remove useless constants
>       net/mlx5: remove unused macros
>       doc: fix note in FreeBSD guide
>
> Tomasz Duszynski (1):
>       common/cnxk: fix async event handling
>
> Vamsi Attunuru (3):
>       net/octeon_ep: handle interrupt enable failure
>       net/octeon_ep: fix mbuf data offset update
>       net/octeon_ep: fix device start
>
> Vanshika Shukla (2):
>       net/enetfec: fix out-of-bounds access in UIO mapping
>       net/dpaa: fix resource leak
>
> Venkat Kumar Ande (1):
>       net/axgbe: fix build with GCC 16
>
> Viacheslav Ovsiienko (4):
>       net/mlx5: fix ESP item validation to match on seqnum
>       net/mlx5: fix ESP header match after UDP for group 0
>       net/mlx5/hws: fix ESP header match in strict mode
>       net/mlx5: fix flex flow item header length
>
> Vladimir Medvedkin (2):
>       fib6: fix memory leak on delete operation
>       fib6: fix tbl8 allocation check logic
>
> Wathsala Vithanage (4):
>       mcslock: fix memory ordering
>       ring: establish safe partial order in default mode
>       ring: establish a safe partial order in hts-ring
>       ring: establish safe partial order in RTS mode
>
> Xingui Yang (1):
>       net/hns3: fix VLAN tag loss for short tunnel frame
>
> Yang Ming (2):
>       eal: fix MP socket cleanup
>       crypto/ipsec_mb: fix QP release in secondary
>
> Yuan Wang (1):
>       net/ixgbe: fix SCTP port filtering on E610
>
> Yunjian Wang (1):
>       vhost: fix double fetch when dequeue offloading
>
> Zhichao Zeng (1):
>       net/ice: fix statistics
>
>