DPDK 24.03 released

DPDK 24.03 released

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new major release is available:
	https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-24.03.tar.xz

This is the work we did during the last months:
	987 commits from 154 authors
	1334 files changed, 79260 insertions(+), 22824 deletions(-)


It is not planned to start a maintenance branch for 24.03.
This version is ABI-compatible with 23.11.

Below are some new features:
	- argument parsing library
	- dynamic logging standardized
	- HiSilicon UACCE bus
	- Tx queue query
	- flow matching with random and field comparison
	- flow action NAT64
	- flow template table resizing
	- more cleanups to prepare MSVC build
	- more DTS tests and cleanups

More details in the release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_03.html


There are 31 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
Welcome to Akshay Dorwat, Alan Elder, Bhuvan Mital, Brad Larson,
Christian Koue Muf, Chuanyu Xue, Emi Aoki, Fidel Castro, Flore Norceide,
Gavin Li, Holly Nichols, Jack Bond-Preston, Lewis Donzis, Liangxing Wang,
Luca Vizzarro, Masoumeh Farhadi Nia, Mykola Kostenok, Nicholas Pratte,
Nishikant Nayak, Oleksandr Kolomeiets, Parthakumar Roy, Qian Hao,
Shani Peretz, Shaowei Sun, Ting-Kai Ku, Tingting Liao, Tom Jones,
Vamsi Krishna Atluri, Venkat Kumar Ande, Vinh Tran,
and Wathsala Vithanage.

Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
	202     Marvell (26)
	166     NVIDIA (23)
	125     Intel (31)
	 80     networkplumber.org (1)
	 77     Corigine (6)
	 64     Red Hat (5)
	 56     Huawei (7)
	 52     Broadcom (6)
	 33     AMD (9)
	 32     Amazon (1)
	 27     Microsoft (4)
	 14     PANTHEON.tech (1)
	 14     Arm (5)
	  7     Google (2)
	  6     UNH (1)
	        ...

A big thank to all courageous people who reviewed other's work.
Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top non-PMD reviewers are:
	 50     Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
	 44     Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
	 40     Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
	 36     Anoob Joseph <anoobj@marvell.com>
	 32     Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
	 26     Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
	 21     Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>
	 18     Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
	 18     Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

The next challenge is to reduce open bugs drastically.


The next version will be 24.07 in July.
The new features for 24.07 can be submitted during the next 4 weeks:
	http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
Please share your roadmap.


Don't forget to register for the webinar about DPDK in the cloud:
	https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IG21wHwlTEGTv3sAXqcoFg


Thanks everyone