There was a typo in the subject: it is the release candidate 18.08-rc1. Sorry, being distracted because of the soccer world cup won by France :-)
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing: > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v18.08-rc1 > > It is the first milestone of a short release after the huge 18.05. > The number of commits is small (570) and there is no specific feature > to highlight, except a big work on vhost/virtio (in-order, packed ring, etc), > a rework of softnic PMD, and some work on memory allocation. > > The release notes so far: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.html > Please think about updating the release notes when you add a feature. > > Some features are expected in 18.08-rc2: > - tap support in secondary process > - 3DES support in AESNI_MB PMD > - new compress drivers > - noisy VNF forward mode in testpmd > > Some planned features are postponed to 18.11: > - new devargs syntax > - failure handler for PCIE hardware hotplug > - virtual device hotplug > - add MPLS to rte_flow encapsulation API > - add metadata matching in rte_flow API > - libedit integration > - clean-up of panic calls > > Please be aware that there are some API changes in 18.08: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.html#api-changes > * and the old ethdev offload API has been removed > > 18.08-rc2 is expected during next week (around 25th of July). > The 18.08 release should happen in early days of August. > Hopefully we are not creating too much bugs in this short cycle. > When finding a new bug, please report it on bugzilla: > http://dpdk.org/tracker/ > > Thank you everyone
