Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 6:35
> To: announce@dpdk.org <announce@dpdk.org>
> Subject: release candidate 25.03-rc3
>A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
>       https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.03-rc3
>
> There are 71 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
>        https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.html
>
> Please test and report new issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org
>
> If no major blocker is discovered,
> this release cycle may be closed at the end of the week.
>
> 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.

We don't see new issues caused by changes in this release.

Kindest Regards,
Wael Abualrub