release candidate 25.07-rc1

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.07-rc1

There are 542 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

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

Highlights of 25.07-rc1:
- Mucse RNP driver
- ZTE Storage Data Accelerator (ZSDA) crypto driver
- Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) library
- mempool optimization
- zeroing of sensitive memory
- RSS type for RoCE v2
- graph feature arc and nodes for FIB
- eventdev vector adapter
- argparse enhanced
- more libraries enabled with Windows MSVC
- export symbols with macros instead of .map file

Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.

DPDK 25.07-rc2 is expected in two weeks.

Thank you everyone

IBM - Power Systems Testing
DPDK v25.07-rc1-8-gdbeb8ae8d0

* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 9.5 kernel: 5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5.ppc64le

        with gcc version 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-2)

Systems tested:
- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.35.4030
- OFED 25.04-0.6.1

Regards,
Thinh Tran

Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk25.07-rc1 all test is done. found three new issues.

New issues:
1. [dpdk-25.07] generic_flow_api/fdir_for_ipv4: the match rule packet cannot match the rule -> Intel dev is under investigating
2. [dpdk-25.07] DCF RSS hash update failed -> has fix patch
3. [dpdk-25.07] virtio_ipsec_cryptodev_func/test_aesni_mb_aes_cbc_sha1_hmac & test_virtio_aes_cbc_sha1_hmac: both test failed -> Intel dev is under investigating

# 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. found the 1 issue.
* 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 2 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. found the 3 issue.
* 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