Hi,

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

> Send: Wednesday, 19 November 2025 at 6:51

> To: announce@dpdk.org <announce@dpdk.org>

> Subject: DPDK release candidate 25.11-rc3

> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.11-rc3

> There are 98 new patches in this snapshot.

> Release notes:

> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.html

> Please test and report new issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org

> The next release candidate (-rc4) is planned for Monday 24.

> Patches and reviews for examples, tooling and documentation are welcome.

> Thank you everyone

The following is a list of tests that we ran on NVIDIA hardware this release:

Note: all tests are passed, and no critical issues were found.

- Basic functionality:
Send and receive multiple types of traffic.
- testpmd xstats counter test.
- testpmd timestamp test.
- Changing/checking link status through testpmd.

- RTE flow tests:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx5.html#supported-hardware-offloads
- RSS testing.
- VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion tests.
- Checksum and TSO tests.
- ptype reporting.
- link status interrupt using the example application link_status_interrupt tests.
- Interrupt mode using l3fwd-power example application tests.
- Multi process testing using multi process example applications.
- Hardware LRO tests.
- Buffer Split.
- Tx scheduling.

Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub