DPDK 25.03 released

DPDK 25.03 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new major release is available:
	https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-25.03.tar.xz

It was a small release cycle:
	812 commits from 137 authors
	1601 files changed, 85099 insertions(+), 38808 deletions(-)

It is not planned to start a maintenance branch for 25.03.
This version is ABI-compatible with 24.11.

Highlights of 25.03:
	- Staged-Ordered ring (SORING)
	- mbuf raw bulk functions
	- some Intel drivers merged together
	- Yunsilicon xsc networking driver
	- ZTE Storage Data Accelerator (ZSDA) driver
	- RSA in vhost/virtio
	- Intel compiler icc support replaced by icx
	- more function annotations for analyzers
	- more MSVC compatibility

More details in the release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.html


There are 25 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
Welcome to Amir Avivi, Ariel Otilibili, Changqi Dingluo, Dima Ruinskiy,
Dongwei Xu, Eimear Morrissey, Frode Nordahl, Jakub Buchocki,
Jianping Zhao, Menachem Fogel, Monendra Singh Kushwaha, Nawal Kishor,
Nicolas Planel, Nithinsen Kaithakadan, Piotr Krzewinski,
Rajesh Mudimadugula, Renyong Wan, Rong Qian, Shaokai Zhang,
Tamar Mashiah, Xiaoxiong Zhang, Yang Ming, Yosef Raisman, Zaiyu Wang,
and Zhigang Hu.

Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
	154     Intel (39)
	 79     Marvell (18)
	 77     NVIDIA (20)
	 71     Napatech (3)
	 63     stephen@networkplumber.org (1)
	 62     Microsoft (4)
	 47     Arm (4)
	 44     ZTE (3)
	 42     Red Hat (4)
	 33     Huawei (7)
	 29     Yunsilicon (1)
	 24     UNH (4)
	        ...

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:
	 48     Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepanek@arm.com>
	 27     Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
	 23     Dean Marx <dmarx@iol.unh.edu>
	 20     Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
	 19     Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
	 18     Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
	 13     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
	 13     Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>


The next version will be 25.07 in July.
The new features for 25.07 can be submitted until mid-April:
	http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/
Please share your roadmap.


In the meantime, please do not forget to register for the DPDK Summit in Prague:
	https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-2025-prague/


Thanks everyone