release candidate 25.07-rc2

release candidate 25.07-rc2

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.07-rc2

There are 141 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.html

Most significant changes are in multiple drivers.

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

DPDK 25.07-rc3 is expected in one week,
with a focus on fixes, tests, examples and doc.

Thank you everyone

Re: release candidate 25.07-rc2

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems Testing
DPDK v25.07-rc2


* Build CI on Fedora 40, 41 and 42 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 9.4  kernel: 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.ppc64le
         with gcc version  11.4.1 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3)

Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     -  Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
     - firmware version: 16.35.2000
     - OFED 25.04-0.6.1

Regards,
Thinh Tran


On 6/29/2025 5:30 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.07-rc2
> 
> There are 141 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.html
> 
> Most significant changes are in multiple drivers.
> 
> Please test and report issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> 
> DPDK 25.07-rc3 is expected in one week,
> with a focus on fixes, tests, examples and doc.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
> 

RE: release candidate 25.07-rc2

[Xu, HailinX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2025 6:31 AM
> To: announce@dpdk.org
> Subject: release candidate 25.07-rc2
> 
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.07-rc2
> 
> There are 141 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.html
> 
> Most significant changes are in multiple drivers.
> 
> Please test and report issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org
> 
> DPDK 25.07-rc3 is expected in one week,
> with a focus on fixes, tests, examples and doc.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk25.07-rc2 all test is done. found one new issues.

New issue:
1. [dpdk-25.07-rc2] vf_pf_reset/test_vlan_rx_restore_vf_reset_all_ports: Unable to receive VLAN packets  -> has fix patch 
     https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20250623181136.48239-1-amiyaranjan.mohakud@gmail.com/

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
    * Build or compile:  
 	*Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu25.04, Ubuntu24.04.2, Fedora42, RHEL10, RHEL9.6, RHEL9.6-RT, FreeBSD14.2, SUSE15.6, OpenAnolis8.10, AzureLinux3.0 etc.
  	- All test passed.
   *Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu24.04.2 and RHEL9.6.
  	- All test passed with latest dpdk.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc. 
	- All test case is done. No new issue is found.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. found the 1 issue.
* PF/VF(apfi/cpfi): test scenarios including cpfi_rte_flow/TSO/MTU/Jumboframe/checksum offload, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Power and IPsec: 
   * Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc. 
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
   * IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found. 
# Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 8.0U1, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev: 
   *Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
   *Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
	- Execution rate is done. No performance drop.


Regards,
Xu, Hailin