1. DPDK Release 25.11

1.1. New Features

  • Added automatic lcore-id remapping option.

    Added the EAL option --remap-lcore-ids or -R to enable automatic remapping of lcore-ids to a contiguous set starting from 0, or from a user-provided value. When this flag is passed, the lcores specified by core mask or core list options are taken as the physical cores on which the application will run, and one thread will be started per core, with sequential lcore-ids. For example: dpdk-test -l 140-144 -R will start 5 threads with lcore-ids 0 to 4 on physical cores 140 to 144.

  • Added inter-process and inter-OS DMA device API.

    • Added parameters in DMA device virtual channel to configure DMA operations that span across different processes or operating system domains.

    • Added functions to exchange handlers between DMA devices.

  • Added 800G speed.

    Added Ethernet link speed for 800 Gb/s as it is well standardized in IEEE, and some devices already support this speed.

  • Added mbuf tracking for debug.

    Added history dynamic field in mbuf to store successive states of the mbuf lifecycle. Some functions were added to dump statistics. A script was added to parse mbuf tracking stored in a file. This feature is disabled by default.

  • Added ethdev API to get link connector.

    Added API to report type of link connector for a port. The following connectors are enumerated:

    • None

    • Twisted Pair

    • Attachment Unit Interface (AUI)

    • Optical Fiber Link

    • BNC

    • Direct Attach Copper

    • XFI, SFI

    • Media Independent Interface (MII)

    • SGMII, QSGMII

    • XLAUI, GAUI, AUI, CAUI, LAUI

    • SFP, SFP+, SFP28, SFP-DD

    • QSFP, QSFP+, QSFP28, QSFP56, QSFP-DD

    • OTHER

    By default, it reports RTE_ETH_LINK_CONNECTOR_NONE unless the driver specifies it.

  • Updated Amazon ENA (Elastic Network Adapter) ethernet driver.

    • Added support for retrieving HW timestamps for Rx packets with nanosecond resolution.

    • Fixed PCI BAR mapping on 64K page size.

  • Added Huawei hinic3 ethernet driver.

    Added network driver for the Huawei SPx series Network Adapters.

  • Updated Intel ice ethernet driver.

    • Added support for Data Center Bridging (DCB).

    • Added support for Priority Flow Control (PFC).

  • Updated Marvell cnxk ethernet driver.

    Added support to set/get link configuration as outlined below:

    • Get speed capability from firmware.

    • Report link type, mode and status.

    • Configure link mode.

  • Added Nebulamatrix nbl ethernet driver.

    Added the PMD for Nebulamatrix NICs.

  • Updated NVIDIA mlx5 driver.

    • Added support for NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNIC adapters.

    • Added support for count and age flow actions on root tables with HW steering flow engine.

  • Updated NXP DPAA2 ethernet driver.

    • Enabled software taildrop for ordered queues.

    • Added additional MAC counters in xstats.

  • Added NXP ENETC4 ethernet driver.

    Added ENETC4 PMD for multiple new generation SoCs.

  • Updated TAP ethernet driver.

    • Replaced ioctl-based link control with a Netlink-based implementation.

    • Linux net devices can now be renamed without breaking link control.

    • Linux net devices can now be moved to different namespaces without breaking link control (requires Linux >= 5.2).

  • Updated Wangxun txgbe ethernet driver.

    Added support for Wangxun Amber-Lite NIC series, including FF5025 (supporting 10G and 25G) and FF5040 (supporting 40G). As these new models share hardware similarities with the existing 10G Sapphire NICs, many of the existing configurations and practices are expected to apply.

  • Updated Yunsilicon xsc ethernet driver.

    • Added FW version query.

    • Added TSO support.

    • Added module EEPROM dump.

    • Added promiscuous mode.

    • Added link status.

    • Added link event.

    • Added FEC get and set.

    • Added multi-process per port.

    • Optimized code.

  • Added PQC ML algorithms in cryptodev.

    • Added PQC ML-KEM support with reference to FIPS203.

    • Added PQC ML-DSA support with reference to FIPS204.

  • Updated openssl crypto driver.

    • Added support for PQC ML-KEM and ML-DSA algorithms.

  • Updated Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) crypto driver.

    • Added SM2 encryption and decryption algorithms.

  • Renamed HiSilicon DMA driver.

    Renamed dma/hisilicon to dma/hisi_pciep (PCIe internal endpoint) to reflect hardware IP.

  • Added HiSilicon Accelerator DMA driver.

    Kunpeng SoC has an internal accelerator unit which includes zip function, and the zip also supports data copy and fill. This driver exposes this capability to DPDK applications.

  • Added RCU support in the FIB6 library.

    It is now possible to register an RCU QSBR object to handle graceful deletion of table groups.

  • Added packet capture (pdump) for secondary process.

    Added multi-process support to allow packets sent and received by secondary process to be visible in packet capture.

  • Allow overriding the automatic usage/help generation in argparse library.

    The argparse library now supports overriding the automatic help text generation, by allowing the user to provide a custom function to generate the output text. The built-in help text function is available as a public function which can be reused by custom functions, if so desired.

1.2. Removed Items

  • build: as previously announced in the deprecation notices, the enable_kmods build option has been removed. Kernel modules will now be built automatically for OSes where out-of-tree kernel modules are required for DPDK operation. Currently, this means that modules will only be built for FreeBSD. No modules are shipped with DPDK for either Linux or Windows.

  • ethdev: As previously announced in deprecation notes, queue specific stats fields are now removed from struct rte_eth_stats. Affected fields are: q_ipackets, q_opackets, q_ibytes, q_obytes, q_errors. Queue stats will be received via the xstats API instead. Also, the compile time flag RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS is removed from public headers.

  • telemetry: As previously announced in the deprecation notices, the functions rte_tel_data_add_array_u64 and rte_tel_data_add_dict_u64 are removed. They are replaced by rte_tel_data_add_array_uint and rte_tel_data_add_dict_uint respectively.

  • net/mlx5: The repr_matching_en device argument has been removed. Applications which disabled this option were able to receive traffic from any physical port/VF/SF on any representor port. Specifically, in most cases, this was used to process all traffic on a representor port which is a transfer proxy port. Similar behavior in mlx5 PMD can be achieved without this device argument, by using RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RSS in transfer flow rules.

1.3. API Changes

  • rawdev: Changed the return type of rte_rawdev_get_dev_id() to allow negative error values.

  • pcapng: Changed the API for adding interfaces to include a link type argument. The link type was previously hardcoded to the Ethernet link type in the API. This argument is added to rte_pcapng_add_interface.

  • bitmap: Changed the return type of rte_bitmap_free() to void for consistency with other free functions.

1.4. ABI Changes

  • eal: The structure rte_mp_msg alignment has been updated to 8 bytes to limit unaligned accesses in messages payload.

  • stack: The structure rte_stack_lf_head alignment has been updated to 16 bytes to avoid unaligned accesses.

  • ethdev: Added link_connector field to rte_eth_link structure to report the type of link connector for a port.

  • cryptodev: The rte_crypto_sm2_op_param struct member cipher to hold ciphertext is changed to a union data type. This change is required to support partial SM2 calculation which is driven by RTE_CRYPTO_SM2_PARTIAL capability flag.

  • cryptodev: The enum rte_crypto_asym_xform_type, struct rte_crypto_asym_xform and struct rte_crypto_asym_op are updated to include new values to support ML-KEM and ML-DSA.

1.5. Tested Platforms

  • Intel® platforms with Intel® NICs combinations

    • CPU

      • Intel® Atom™ x7835RE

      • Intel® Xeon® 6553P-B CPU @ 2.6GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® 6767P CPU @ 2.4GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU Max 9480

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU Max 9480 CPU @ 1.9GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® Gold 6330 CPU @ 2.00GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® Gold 6348 CPU @ 2.60GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280M CPU @ 2.70GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8380 CPU @ 2.30GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8468H CPU @ 2.1GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8490H CPU @ 1.9GHz

    • OS:

      • Fedora 42

      • FreeBSD 14.3

      • Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0

      • OpenAnolis OS 8.10

      • openEuler 24.03 (LTS-SP2)

      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 10

      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 9.6

      • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

      • Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

      • Vmware ESXi 8.0.3

    • NICs:

      • Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP (4x25G)

        • Firmware version: 4.90 0x80020eeb 1.3863.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:1593 / 8086:1889

        • Driver version (out-of-tree): 2.3.14 (ice)

        • Driver version (in-tree): 6.8.0-86-generic (Ubuntu24.04 LTS) (ice)

        • OS Default DDP: 1.3.43.0

        • COMMS DDP: 1.3.55.0

        • Wireless Edge DDP: 1.3.25.0

      • Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP (2x100G)

        • Firmware version: 4.90 0x80020ef2 1.3863.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:1592 / 8086:1889

        • Driver version (out-of-tree): 2.3.14 (ice)

        • Driver version (in-tree): 6.6.12.1-1.azl3+ice+ (Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0) / 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.x86_64+rt (RHEL10) (ice)

        • OS Default DDP: 1.3.43.0

        • COMMS DDP: 1.3.55.0

        • Wireless Edge DDP: 1.3.25.0

      • Intel® Ethernet Controller E830-CC for SFP

        • Firmware version: 1.20 0x800179c0 1.3862.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:12d3 / 8086:1889

        • Driver version: 2.3.14 (ice)

        • OS Default DDP: 1.3.43.0

        • COMMS DDP: 1.3.55.0

        • Wireless Edge DDP: 1.3.25.0

      • Intel® Ethernet Controller E830-CC for QSFP

        • Firmware version: 1.20 0x800179c1 1.3862.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:12d2 / 8086:1889

        • Driver version: 2.3.14 (ice)

        • OS Default DDP: 1.3.43.0

        • COMMS DDP: 1.3.55.0

        • Wireless Edge DDP: 1.3.25.0

      • Intel® Ethernet Connection E825-C for QSFP

        • Firmware version: 4.04 0x80007e5c 1.3885.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:579d / 8086:1889

        • Driver version: 2.3.14 (ice)

        • OS Default DDP: 1.3.43.0

        • COMMS DDP: 1.3.55.0

        • Wireless Edge DDP: 1.3.25.0

      • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E610-XT2

        • Firmware version: 1.30 0x8000e8a2 1.3864.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:57b0 / 8086:57ad

        • Driver version (out-of-tree): 6.2.5 (ixgbe)

      • Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E610-XT4

        • Firmware version: 1.30 0x8000e8a5 1.3864.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:57b0 / 8086:57ad

        • Driver version (out-of-tree): 6.2.5 (ixgbe)

      • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)

        • Firmware version: 9.55 0x8000fdf4 1.3862.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c

        • Driver version (in-tree): 6.8.0-88-generic (i40e)

      • Intel® Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (2x10G)

        • Firmware version: 6.51 0x80004430 1.3862.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:37d0 / 8086:37cd

        • Driver version (out-of-tree): 2.28.13 (i40e)

      • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G)

        • Firmware version: 9.55 0x8000fe4c 1.3862.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:158b / 8086:154c

        • Driver version (out-of-tree): 2.28.13 (i40e)

        • Driver version (in-tree): 6.8.0-88-generic (Ubuntu24.04.3 LTS) / 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.x86_64 (RHEL10) (i40e)

      • Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)

        • Firmware version(PF): 9.55 0x8000fe31 1.3862.0

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c

        • Driver version (out-of-tree): 2.28.13 (i40e)

      • Intel® Ethernet Controller I226-LM

        • Firmware version: 2.14, 0x8000028c

        • Device ID (PF): 8086:125b

        • Driver version (in-tree): 6.8.0-87-generic (Ubuntu24.04.3 LTS) (igc)

      • Intel® Corporation Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4

        • Firmware version: 1.63, 0x8000116b

        • Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:1521 /8086:1520

        • Driver version: 6.14.0-35-generic (Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS) (igb)

      • Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) E2100

        • Firmware version: ci-ts.release.2.0.0.11126

        • Device ID (idpf/cpfl): 8086:1452/8086:1453

        • Driver version: 0.0.772 (idpf)

  • Intel® platforms with NVIDIA® NICs combinations

    • CPU:

      • Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz

      • Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz

    • OS:

      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.2 (Plow)

      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.1 (Plow)

      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa)

      • Ubuntu 24.04

      • Ubuntu 22.04

      • Ubuntu 20.04

      • SUSE Enterprise Linux 15 SP4

    • DOCA:

      • DOCA 3.2.0-125000 and above.

    • upstream kernel:

      • Linux 6.17.0 and above

    • rdma-core:

      • rdma-core-58.0 and above

    • NICs

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 Dx EN 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)

        • Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16

        • Device ID: 15b3:101d

        • Firmware version: 22.47.1026 and above

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 Lx EN 25G MCX631102AN-ADAT (2x25G)

        • Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x8

        • Device ID: 15b3:101f

        • Firmware version: 26.47.1026 and above

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 200G CX713106AE-HEA_QP1_Ax (2x200G)

        • Host interface: PCI Express 5.0 x16

        • Device ID: 15b3:1021

        • Firmware version: 28.47.1026 and above

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-8 SuperNIC 400G MT4131 - 900-9X81Q-00CN-STA (2x400G)

        • Host interface: PCI Express 6.0 x16

        • Device ID: 15b3:1023

        • Firmware version: 40.47.1026 and above

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-9 SuperNIC 800G MT4133 - 900-9X91E-00EB-STA_Ax (1x800G)

        • Host interface: PCI Express 6.0 x16

        • Device ID: 15b3:1025

        • Firmware version: 82.47.0366 and above

  • NVIDIA® BlueField® SmartNIC

    • NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 SmartNIC MT41686 - MBF2H332A-AEEOT_A1 (2x25G)

      • Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16

      • Device ID: 15b3:a2d6

      • Firmware version: 24.47.1026 and above

    • NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 P-Series DPU MT41692 - 900-9D3B6-00CV-AAB (2x200G)

      • Host interface: PCI Express 5.0 x16

      • Device ID: 15b3:a2dc

      • Firmware version: 32.47.1026 and above

    • Embedded software:

      • Ubuntu 24.04

      • MLNX_OFED 25.10-1.2.8.0

      • bf-bundle-3.2.0-113_25.10_ubuntu-24.04

      • DPDK application running on ARM cores

  • IBM Power 9 platforms with NVIDIA® NICs combinations

    • CPU:

      • POWER9 2.2 (pvr 004e 1202)

    • OS:

      • Ubuntu 20.04

    • NICs:

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 Dx 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)

        • Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16

        • Device ID: 15b3:101d

        • Firmware version: 22.47.1026 and above

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 200G CX713106AE-HEA_QP1_Ax (2x200G)

        • Host interface: PCI Express 5.0 x16

        • Device ID: 15b3:1021

        • Firmware version: 28.47.1026 and above

    • DOCA:

      • DOCA 3.2.0-125000 and above

  • IBM Power 10 with NVIDIA® NIC [added in March 2026]

    • CPU:

      • IBM Power 10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A

    • OS:

      • RHEL 10.0 kernel: 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.ppc64le

    • NICs:

      • NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 100G MT28800 Family

        • Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16

        • OFED 25.07-0.9.7

        • Firmware Version: 16.35.2000

1.6. 25.11.1 Release Notes

1.6.1. 25.11.1 Fixes

  • app/dma-perf: fix buffer overflow with high core count

  • app/dma-perf: fix reversed CPU copy

  • app/graph: fix variable shadowing

  • app/pdump: fix variable shadowing

  • app/testpmd: check start for DCB forwarding TC commands

  • app/testpmd: fix DCB forwarding TC mismatch handling

  • app/testpmd: fix FD leak in mbuf history command parsing

  • app/testpmd: fix flow queue job leaks

  • app/testpmd: fix function names in logs

  • app/testpmd: fix memory leak in port attach

  • app/testpmd: fix memory leak in port flow configure

  • app/testpmd: fix variable shadowing

  • bbdev: fix variable shadowing

  • bitops: allow variable as first argument of shift macros

  • bpf: disallow empty program

  • bpf: fix add/subtract overflow

  • bpf: fix signed shift overflows in ARM JIT

  • bpf: fix starting with conditional jump

  • bpf: fix x86 call stack alignment for external calls

  • buildtools/test: suppress empty output

  • bus/fslmc: fix devargs not propagated on hotplug

  • bus/pci: fix variable shadowing

  • ci: fix debug build type

  • common/cnxk: fix array out-of-bounds

  • common/cnxk: fix buffer overflow in SA setup

  • common/cnxk: fix cipher key length validation

  • common/cnxk: fix CPT CQ roll over handling

  • common/cnxk: fix duplicated branches

  • common/cnxk: fix engine capabilities fetch logic

  • common/cnxk: fix width of DPC set field

  • common/cnxk: remove VLA in interrupt configuration

  • common/mlx5: fix bonding check

  • common/mlx5: fix error logging for queue modify

  • common/mlx5: fix MAC deletion on Linux

  • common/mlx5: fix variable shadowing

  • common/sfc_efx/base: define mask for pause mode capabilities

  • common/sfc_efx/base: fix flow control on legacy MCDI

  • common/sfc_efx/base: fix indication of requestable FEC flags

  • compress/zlib: fix UDC checksum

  • config/arm: drop crypto extension from Cortex-A78AE

  • config/arm: fix 32-bit build

  • crypto/cnxk: return decrypted data for RSA verify

  • cryptodev: fix memory corruption in secondary process

  • crypto/openssl: fix SM2 public key buffer overflow

  • crypto/qat: align vector address

  • dma/idxd: mark portal pointer as volatile

  • doc: add IBM Power 10 testing to 25.11 release notes

  • doc: add –query-rate option in flow-perf guide

  • doc: fix E830 recommended firmware in ice guide

  • doc: fix inline crypto feature status for iavf

  • doc: fix TSO and checksum offload feature status for ice

  • doc: fix TSO feature status for i40e

  • doc: fix TSO feature status for iavf

  • doc: remove references to obsolete testpmd flag

  • doc: update AMD EPYC guide

  • dts: avoid resources conflict on quick stop/start

  • dts: fix doc for QinQ test suite

  • dts: fix doc for RSS test suite

  • dts: fix doc generation for testpmd shell

  • dts: fix docstring typo in dynamic queue suite

  • dts: fix test suite filtering

  • dts: reduce digit count in single core forwarding metrics

  • dts: show missing NIC capabilities in logs

  • dts: sniff only inbound packets

  • eal: fix annotation on lcore variable allocator

  • eal: fix cache guard for pedantic compilation

  • eal: fix variable shadowing

  • eal/linux: fix fbarray name collision in containers

  • eal/linux: fix HPET symbols export

  • eal/linux: handle interrupt epoll events

  • eal/x86: fix TSC frequency query

  • ethdev: fix mbuf fast release requirements description

  • ethdev: fix variable shadowing

  • event/cnxk: fix crash on CN10K

  • eventdev/eth_rx: fix crash with telemetry

  • eventdev: fix variable shadowing

  • examples/ethtool: fix error message about ports limit

  • examples/ethtool: fix size of mempool name

  • examples/fips_validation: fix dangling pointers

  • examples/fips_validation: fix RSA memcpy

  • examples/ipsec-secgw: fix build with glibc 2.43

  • examples/l2fwd-jobstats: fix stats availability

  • examples/packet_ordering: fix format specifier for port ID

  • examples/ptpclient: fix format specifier for port ID

  • examples/vmdq_dcb: initialize all configuration structures

  • examples/vm_power: fix format-truncation warning

  • examples/vm_power_manager: fix format specifier for port ID

  • fib: fix prefix addition handling

  • hash: avoid leaking entries on RCU defer queue failure

  • hash: fix maybe-uninitialized warnings on build

  • hash: fix overflow of 32-bit offsets

  • hash: fix unaligned access for CRC

  • hash: free replaced data on overwrite when RCU is configured

  • interrupts: add interrupt event info

  • mbuf: fix packet data read

  • mem: check fbarray name truncation in secondary process

  • net/af_packet: fix MTU set data size calculation

  • net/af_packet: fix receive buffer overflow

  • net/af_xdp: fix external mbuf transmit

  • net/axgbe: add 100 Mbps MAC speed select

  • net/axgbe: fix 100M SGMII mode

  • net/axgbe: fix auto-negotiation capabilities

  • net/axgbe: fix MAC TCR speed select field width

  • net/axgbe: fix SGMII auto-negotiation status bits

  • net/bnxt: fix build with GCC 16

  • net/bnxt: fix commas instead of semicolons

  • net/bnxt: fix crash in HWRM capabilities query

  • net/bnxt: fix reported VLAN stripped flag for Thor2

  • net/bnxt: fix statistics for high number of queues

  • net/bnxt: fix uninitialized read

  • net/bnxt: remove unbuilt source files

  • net/bnxt: support statistics query when port is stopped

  • net/bnxt/tf_ulp: fix minsize build

  • net/bonding: clamp Rx free threshold for small rings

  • net/cnxk: fix security flag for custom inbound SA

  • net/cpfl: fix variable shadowing

  • net/dpaa2: add SG table walk upper bound in Rx

  • net/dpaa2: fix burst mode info

  • net/dpaa2: fix error packet dump

  • net/dpaa2: fix L3/L4 checksum offload flags

  • net/dpaa2: fix L4 packet type in slow parse path

  • net/dpaa2: fix link after port stop/start

  • net/dpaa2: fix MAC stats DMA alloc per xstats call

  • net/dpaa2: fix queue block memory leak on port close

  • net/dpaa2: fix resource leak on soft parser failure

  • net/dpaa2: fix Rx error queue memory leaks

  • net/dpaa2: fix software taildrop buffer access

  • net/dpaa2: fix spurious VLAN insertion on non-VLAN packet

  • net/dpaa2: warn on Rx descriptor limit in high perf mode

  • net/e1000: fix allocation of context desc for launch time

  • net/e1000: fix igc launch time calculation

  • net/e1000: fix variable shadowing

  • net/e1000: use device timestamp for clock read in igc

  • net: fix packet type for stacked VLAN

  • net: fix variable shadowing

  • net/hns3: fix outer UDP checksum with simple BD

  • net/i40e: fix IPv6 GTPU handling

  • net/i40e: fix QinQ stripping

  • net/i40e: fix raw flow item validation

  • net/i40e: fix secondary process Rx path selection

  • net/i40e: fix unused variable

  • net/i40e: fix variable shadowing

  • net/i40e: move filter config to flow create

  • net/i40e: validate raw flow items before dereferencing

  • net/iavf: fix deletion of primary MAC address

  • net/iavf: fix IPv4 flow subscription

  • net/iavf: fix memory leak on egress IPsec flows

  • net/iavf: fix memory leak on uninit

  • net/iavf: fix order of tags for AVX512 Tx QinQ offload

  • net/iavf: fix reported max Tx and Rx queues

  • net/iavf: fix secondary process Rx path selection

  • net/iavf: fix struct size in IPsec status get

  • net/iavf: negotiate PTP before reporting Rx timestamping

  • net/ice/base: disable MSVC warning

  • net/ice/base: fix adjust timer programming for E830

  • net/ice/base: fix double HW reinitialization

  • net/ice/base: fix integer types in comparisons

  • net/ice: check null scheduler root node

  • net/ice: fix memory leak in DCF QoS bandwidth config

  • net/ice: fix memory leak in FDIR flow parsing

  • net/ice: fix priority mode printing in Tx scheduler dump

  • net/ice: fix RSS LUT access when using global LUT

  • net/ice: fix secondary process Rx path selection

  • net/ice: fix variable shadowing

  • net/ice: re-enable strict priority on non-root levels

  • net/idpf: fix typo in CQ scan threshold macro name

  • net/intel: fix comma operator warnings

  • net/intel: fix memory leak on Tx queue setup failure

  • net/intel: prevent selection of a null Rx burst function

  • net/intel: update key length when getting RSS key

  • net/ixgbe: add missing E610 MAC type checks

  • net/ixgbe: fix memory leak in security flows

  • net/ixgbe: fix pointer handling in IPsec

  • net/ixgbe: fix potential null dereference in IPsec flow

  • net/ixgbe: fix potential null dereference with IPsec config

  • net/ixgbe: fix variable shadowing

  • net/mana: fix CQE suppression handling on error completions

  • net/mana: fix fast-path ops setup in secondary process

  • net/mana: fix PD resource leak on device close

  • net/memif: fix descriptor Tx flags corruption

  • net/memif: fix multi-segment Rx corruption

  • net/mlx4: fix fast-path ops setup in secondary process

  • net/mlx5: add RSS TIR registration API

  • net/mlx5: allow MTU mismatch for running shared queue

  • net/mlx5: check DevX disconnect/error interrupt events

  • net/mlx5: fix bonding check

  • net/mlx5: fix build with LTO

  • net/mlx5: fix counter leak in hairpin queue setup

  • net/mlx5: fix counters resource leak

  • net/mlx5: fix counter truncation in queue counter read

  • net/mlx5: fix default flow engine on Windows

  • net/mlx5: fix default memzone requirements in HWS

  • net/mlx5: fix fast-path ops setup in secondary process

  • net/mlx5: fix flex item capability check

  • net/mlx5: fix flex parser creation length attribute

  • net/mlx5: fix flow devargs handling for future HW

  • net/mlx5: fix flow mark reading after reconfigure

  • net/mlx5: fix flow metadata between E-Switch and VM

  • net/mlx5: fix flow metadata sharing with E-Switch and VM

  • net/mlx5: fix heap buffer overflow in sample group match

  • net/mlx5: fix HW flow counter query

  • net/mlx5: fix internal HWS pattern template creation

  • net/mlx5: fix IP tunnel detection with HWS

  • net/mlx5: fix IPv6 SRH flex node header length

  • net/mlx5: fix IPv6 SRH flex parser initialization

  • net/mlx5: fix job leak on indirect meter creation failure

  • net/mlx5: fix memory leak after device spawn failure

  • net/mlx5: fix meter ASO action leak on release to pool

  • net/mlx5: fix MPESW PF probe for any number of ports

  • net/mlx5: fix NAT64 HW registers calculation

  • net/mlx5: fix null dereference in Tx queue start

  • net/mlx5: fix port down in link detection failure

  • net/mlx5: fix probing to allow BlueField Socket Direct

  • net/mlx5: fix redundant control rules in promiscuous mode

  • net/mlx5: fix send skew settings when using wait on time

  • net/mlx5: fix shared Rx queue limitations

  • net/mlx5: fix use-after-free in ASO management init

  • net/mlx5: fix VLAN strip info for CQE compression

  • net/mlx5: fix VXLAN and NVGRE encap in async flow API

  • net/mlx5/hws: fix null dereference in rule skip

  • net/mlx5/hws: fix stack alignment for ASan compatibility

  • net/mlx5: report share group and queue ID

  • net/mlx5/windows: fix MAC address ownership tracking

  • net/mvpp2: fix variable shadowing

  • net/nbl: check ioctl returns

  • net/nbl: checks for unsupported UIO drivers

  • net/nbl: fix hardware stats interrupt nesting

  • net/nbl: fix integer overflow

  • net/nbl: fix mbuf double-free in queue cleanup

  • net/nbl: fix mbuf headroom usage in packet Tx

  • net/nbl: fix memzone leak on queue release

  • net/nbl: fix null pointer dereference

  • net/nbl: fix queue stats on restart

  • net/nbl: improve mailbox exception handling

  • net/netvsc: fix devargs memory leak on hotplug

  • net/netvsc: fix double-free of primary Rx queue on uninit

  • net/netvsc: fix event callback leak on Rx filter failure

  • net/netvsc: fix race conditions on VF add/remove events

  • net/netvsc: fix resource leak on init failure

  • net/netvsc: fix resource leaks on MTU change

  • net/netvsc: fix subchannel leak on device removal

  • net/netvsc: support multi-process VF device removal

  • net/netvsc: switch data path to synthetic on device stop

  • net/nfb: fix bad pointer access in queue stats

  • net/nfb: fix resources release

  • net/nfb: stop only started queues in fail path

  • net/nfb: use constant values for max Rx/Tx queues count

  • net/nfb: use process private variable for internal

  • net/null: fix Tx statistics accumulation

  • net/r8169: ensure old mapping is used

  • net/r8169: fix bitmask logic for RTL8127

  • net/r8169: fix crash in RTL8168FP init

  • net/r8169: fix RTL8168KB speed classification

  • net/sfc: avoid speed reset when setting FEC in started state

  • net/sfc: drop AUTO from FEC capabilities and fix comment

  • net/sfc: fix reporting status of autonegotiation

  • net/sfc: rework capability check that is done on FEC set

  • net/tap: fix handling of queue stats

  • net/tap: fix resource leaks in secondary process probe

  • net/tap: fix resource leaks on creation failure

  • net/tap: fix use-after-free on remote flow creation failure

  • net/tap: free IPC reply buffer on queue count mismatch

  • net/tap: free remote flow when implicit rule already exists

  • net/tap: remove log when running without multiprocess

  • net/tap: use correct length for interface names

  • pcapng: chain additional mbuf when comment exceeds tailroom

  • pcapng: document return values

  • pcapng: fix variable shadowing

  • pcapng: use malloc instead of fixed buffer size

  • pdcp: add digest physical address

  • pipeline: fix variable shadowing

  • power: fix variable shadowing

  • rcu: fix build with MSVC

  • table: fix variable shadowing

  • telemetry: fix adding dict in container array

  • test: add file-prefix for all fast-tests on Linux

  • test: add pause to synchronization spinloops

  • test/atomic: scale test based on core count

  • test/bpf: fix error handling in ELF load tests

  • test/bpf: fix payload size for Rx/Tx load tests

  • test/bpf: fix unsupported instructions in ELF load test

  • test/cfgfile: avoid temp filename truncation

  • test/crypto: check for vdev args overflow

  • test/crypto: fix mbuf segment number

  • test/crypto: fix RSA sign data length

  • test: fix dependencies on net null driver

  • test/latency: relax check on zero latency

  • test/mcslock: scale test based on core count

  • test/memcpy: reduce alignment offset coverage

  • test/pcapng: fix for Windows

  • test/pcapng: skip test if null driver missing

  • test/red: fix some undefined behaviour

  • test/security: skip inline protocol test if no HW support

  • test/stack: scale test based on core count

  • test/table: avoid input line overflow

  • test/timer: fix hang on secondary process failure

  • test/timer: replace volatile with C11 atomics

  • test/timer: scale test based on core count

  • test/trace: fix parallel execution with traces enabled

  • usertools/pmdinfo: fix search for PMD info string

  • version: 25.11.1-rc1

  • vhost: fix descriptor chain bounds check in control queue

  • vhost: fix mmap error check in VDUSE IOTLB miss handler

  • vhost: fix resource leak on driver registration failure

  • vhost: fix use-after-free fdset during shutdown

  • vhost: fix use-after-free race during cleanup

  • vhost: fix virtqueue array size for control queue

1.6.2. 25.11.1 Validation

  • Nvidia(R) Testing

    • Basic functionality with testpmd

      • Tx/Rx

      • xstats

      • Timestamps

      • Link status

      • RTE flow

      • RSS

      • VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion

      • Checksum/TSO

      • ptype

      • link_status_interrupt example application

      • l3fwd-power example application

      • Multi-process example applications

      • Hardware LRO tests

      • Buffer Split

      • Tx scheduling

    • Build tests

    • ConnectX-7

      • Ubuntu 24.04, DOCA-Host 3.3.0, fw 28.48.1000

    • BlueField-3 DPU

      • Ubuntu 24.04, DOCA SW 3.3.0, fw 24.48.1000

  • Intel(R) Testing

    • Compile testing

      • Ubuntu 25.04, Ubuntu 24.04.3, RHEL 10, RHEL 9.6

      • Fedora 43, FreeBSD 15, SUSE 16

      • OpenAnolis 8.10, OpenEuler 24.04-SP2, AzureLinux 3.0

    • Functional testing

      • PF/VF (i40e, ixgbe)

      • PF/VF (ice)

      • IPsec

      • Virtio

      • Cryptodev

      • DLB

      • AF_XDP, Power, CBDMA, DSA

    • Performance testing

      • Throughput performance

      • Cryptodev latency

      • PF/VF NIC single core/NIC performance

      • XXV710/E810 NIC Performance

  • IBM(R) Testing

    • Build testing

      • Fedora 40, 41, 42 and 43 container images for ppc64le

    • Platform

      • IBM Power11 (9105-22A)

      • RHEL 10.1

      • Kernel 6.12.0-124.39.1.el10_1.ppc64le

      • GCC 14.2.1

      • ConnectX-7 100 GbE, fw 28.47.1088, OFED 26.01-1.0.0

    • Functional testing

      • Basic PF on Mellanox

    • Performance testing

      • TestPMD throughput single core tests

1.7. 25.11.2 Release Notes

This release is address a regression in DPDK v25.11.1 as reported at https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1941.

1.7.1. 25.11.2 Fixes

  • Revert “net: fix packet type for stacked VLAN”

1.7.2. 25.11.2 Validation

  • Github Actions, UNH CI, OBS CI

1.8. 25.11.3 Release Notes

1.8.1. 25.11.3 Fixes

  • app/dma-perf: fix hang with worker on main lcore

  • app: remove use of strncpy

  • app/testpmd: fix DCB queue allocation for VMDq devices

  • app/testpmd: fix flow job list double-free on reattach

  • app/testpmd: include IP fields in UDP RSS option

  • app/testpmd: mask VLAN inner type in flow rule

  • app/testpmd: mask VLAN TCI in flow rule

  • app/testpmd: terminate process on second signal

  • bitops: fix build with GCC 17

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_ADD of pointer to a scalar

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_AND min calculations

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_DIV and BPF_MOD signed part

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_JGT/EBPF_JSGT no-jump max

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_JMP source range calculation

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_LDX | EBPF_DW signed range

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_LSH shift-out-of-bounds UB

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_MUL ranges minimum

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_MUL signed overflow UB

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_NEG of INT64_MIN and 0

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_OR min calculations

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_SUB signed max zero case

  • bpf/validate: fix BPF_XOR signed min calculation

  • bpf/validate: prevent overflow when building graph

  • bus/dpaa: fix BMI Rx statistics

  • bus/dpaa: fix FD leak for CCSR mmap

  • bus/dpaa: fix FQ creation failure handling

  • bus/dpaa: fix FQID endianness

  • bus/dpaa: fix FQ query failure handling

  • bus/dpaa: fix probing on LS1043A

  • bus/fslmc: fix bus cleanup

  • bus/fslmc: propagate unplug error

  • bus/ifpga: remove unused AFU lookup helper

  • bus/pci: fix mapping leak in bus cleanup

  • bus/vmbus: fix interrupt leak in cleanup

  • cfgfile: prevent overflow on resize

  • ci: update versions of actions in GHA

  • cmdline: guard zero-size destination buffers

  • cmdline: harden parser result buffer handling

  • cmdline: prevent out-of-bounds read

  • common/cnxk: add auth key length check in inbound SA

  • common/cnxk: add cipher key length check in key set

  • common/cnxk: fix event type for soft expiry

  • common/cnxk: fix static analysis issues

  • common/cnxk: fix thread-unsafe NIX telemetry parsing

  • common/cnxk: fix TM link config selection in debug dump

  • common/cnxk: fix VFIO MSI-X interrupt setup

  • common/cnxk: fix xstats names query

  • crypto/armv8: use timing-safe digest comparison

  • crypto/ccp: use timing-safe digest comparison

  • crypto/cnxk: enforce DES/3DES cipher key length

  • crypto/cnxk: fix out-of-place AES-GCM

  • crypto/cnxk: use timing-safe digest comparison

  • cryptodev: add missing asym xform names

  • cryptodev: reset pointer after failure in callback init

  • crypto/ipsec_mb: avoid clearing SNOW3G digest in-place

  • crypto/openssl: fix use-after-free and cleanup

  • crypto/scheduler: fix session restore of pending enqueues

  • crypto/uadk: use timing-safe digest comparison

  • crypto/virtio: remove explicit cookie allocation

  • dev: report devargs truncation for multi-process hotplug

  • devtools: fix regex matching literal plus in patches

  • dma/cnxk: fix crash on secondary process cleanup

  • dmadev: clarify reported completion index

  • dmadev: validate telemetry parameters

  • dma/dpaa2: propagate removal error

  • dma/dpaa: fix out-of-bounds access in SG descriptor enqueue

  • dma/odm: fix zero-length DMA transfer

  • doc: fix some mldev model captions

  • doc: fix stale packet pacing in mlx5 guide

  • dts: add retry loop to TRex traffic generation

  • dts: fix port info getter when not found

  • dts: fix topology capability comparison

  • dts: resolve variance in performance reporting

  • eal: add helper to initialize process-shared mutex

  • eal: fix index for non-EAL lcores

  • eal/freebsd: fix memseg addresses in VA mode

  • eal/windows: fix core count for more cores per NUMA

  • ethdev: fix flow_ops_mutex for multi-process

  • ethdev: fix out-of-bounds write in flex item conversion

  • ethdev: fix out-of-bounds write in GENEVE option conversion

  • ethdev: fix pointer check in GENEVE and raw flow copy

  • ethdev: keep fast-path operations valid after stop

  • ethdev: make telemetry parameter parsing thread-safe

  • ethdev: return 0 from dummy queue count

  • event/cnxk: fix static analysis issues

  • eventdev/eth_rx: fix thread-unsafe telemetry parsing

  • eventdev/eth_rx: reject out-of-range telemetry ID

  • eventdev: harden telemetry parameter parsing

  • eventdev/timer: reject out-of-range telemetry ID

  • examples/flow_filtering: fix allocation error paths

  • examples/ipsec-secgw: drop packets in poll mode

  • examples/l3fwd-power: fix latency query failure handling

  • examples: remove artificial Tx queue limit

  • examples: use strlcpy and strlcat

  • examples/vm_power_manager: fix const discarding

  • fib6: fix error code propagation on next hop update

  • fib6: fix tbl8 reservation drift in trie

  • interrupts: propagate epoll error

  • ipc: avoid deadlock in async alarm callback

  • ipc: fix log message in async request

  • ipc: fix memory leak in async secondary path

  • ipc: fix memory leaks on async request partial failure

  • ipc: trigger async callback without peers

  • ipc: use request ID instead of pointers

  • ip_frag: drop IPv6 fragments with per-fragment headers

  • ip_frag: fix unsafe tailq usage

  • ip_frag: include protocol in IPv4 reassembly key

  • ip_frag: randomize hash seed

  • ip_frag: reject oversized reassembled datagrams

  • maintainers: fix app/test attributions

  • mbuf: fix mbuf operations history recording

  • mem: fix data race in Linux hugepage prefault

  • mem: update comment on virtual area reservation

  • ml/cnxk: fix overwriting layer name during load

  • mldev: fix some typos in Doxygen

  • net/af_packet: fix indentation

  • net/af_packet: fix parsing of numeric device args

  • net/af_xdp: fix resource leak in close

  • net/ark: fix null dereference on allocation failure

  • net/ark: use standard IPv4 address parser

  • net/atlantic: fix mbox mutex for multi-process

  • net/axgbe: fix comma operator misuse

  • net/axgbe: fix mutexes for multi-process

  • net/bnxt: avoid link flap when setting flow control

  • net/bnxt: avoid null Rx queue dereference

  • net/bnxt: clear stale Tx descriptor count

  • net/bnxt: fix IOVA range check for external mbuf

  • net/bnxt: fix LRO capability reporting

  • net/bnxt: fix mutexes for multi-process

  • net/bnxt: fix NQ/CQ processing for interrupt handling

  • net/bnxt: fix PTP timestamp flags in scalar Rx

  • net/bnxt: fix QP resource count in backing store config

  • net/bnxt: fix RSS hash mode configuration for VF

  • net/bnxt: fix Rx timestamping for non-PTP packets

  • net/bnxt: fix Tx address for external mbuf

  • net/bnxt: modify check for short Tx BD

  • net/bnxt: roll back Tx descriptors for invalid packets

  • net/bnxt: skip timed Tx pacing setup when unsupported

  • net/bnxt: support PTP for Thor2

  • net/bnxt: support PTP on Wh+ using HWRM interface

  • net/bnxt: support Rx/Tx timestamp on Wh+ using HWRM

  • net/bnxt/tf_core: check pool use allocation

  • net/bonding: check mode before setting dedicated queues

  • net/bonding: prevent crash on Rx/Tx from secondary process

  • net/cnxk: fix bitwise operand size mismatch in link mode

  • net/cnxk: fix telemetry SA info parameter parsing

  • net/cnxk: fix underflow in LSO calculation

  • net/dpaa2: add L4 destination port to RSS hash key

  • net/dpaa2: fix Rx queue count for primary process

  • net/dpaa2: use L4 port extraction for SCTP RSS

  • net/dpaa: add null check in scheme delete

  • net/dpaa: fix BMI xstats by ID

  • net/dpaa: fix BMI xstats names

  • net/dpaa: fix CGR modification

  • net/dpaa: fix checksum offload with empty L3 length

  • net/dpaa: fix device remove

  • net/dpaa: fix interrupt unregister

  • net/dpaa: fix mbuf leak in SG FD creation

  • net/dpaa: fix port handle leak

  • net/dpaa: fix xstats name for Tx undersized counter

  • net/dpaa: remove duplicate packet types

  • net/e1000/base: cleanup K1 exit timeout configuration

  • net/e1000/base: clear DPG enable bit post MAC reset

  • net/e1000/base: fix NVM loop bounds and pointer access

  • net/e1000/base: fix possible variable overflow

  • net/e1000/base: fix style

  • net/e1000/base: fix typo

  • net/e1000/base: propagate PHY control register write error

  • net/e1000: fix igc RSS redirection table

  • net/e1000: fix igc Tx descriptor ring wrap

  • net/enetc: fix queue initialization

  • net/enetc: fix Tx BD structure

  • net/enic: fix null dereference in flow mask check

  • net/failsafe: fix hotplug mutex for multi-process

  • net: fix GTP tunnel parsing

  • net/gve: clear out shared memory region for statistics

  • net/gve: copy data to QPL buffer when mbuf read does not

  • net/gve: delay adding mbuf head to software ring

  • net/gve: fix comma operator misuses

  • net/gve: free context mbuf on later segment drop

  • net/gve: increase range of DMA memzone IDs to 64 bits

  • net/gve: preserve ring size bounds on reset

  • net/gve: restrict max ring size in GQ QPL to 2K

  • net/gve: set mbuf to null in software ring after use

  • net/gve: validate buffer ID before processing Rx packet

  • net/hinic: fix mutexes for multi-process

  • net/hns3: fix L4 checksum for tunnel packets

  • net/i40e: activate alarm if interrupt delivery unavailable

  • net/i40e/base: fix integer overflow in NVM timing logic

  • net/i40e/base: fix loop counter width in DCB parsing

  • net/i40e: fix blocking link wait on device start

  • net/i40e: fix flexible payload filter

  • net/i40e: fix simple Tx prepare rejecting tunnel type flags

  • net/i40e: fix VLAN flow mask validation

  • net/i40e: validate DDP segment header before use

  • net/iavf: fix disabling of promiscuous modes on close

  • net/iavf: fix duplicate VF reset during PF reset recovery

  • net/iavf: fix event handler refcount leak on HW reset

  • net/iavf: fix leak of flex metadata extraction field

  • net/iavf: fix leak of IPsec crypto capabilities array

  • net/iavf: fix leak of queue to traffic class mapping data

  • net/iavf: fix local memory leaks in TM hierarchy commit

  • net/iavf: fix memory leak on error when adding flow parser

  • net/iavf: fix misleading admin queue failure logging

  • net/iavf: fix race condition on link status change

  • net/iavf: fix reset handling error log

  • net/iavf: fix Rx packets statistics underflow

  • net/iavf: fix scalar Rx path zero-length segment

  • net/iavf: reject oversized frames in prep callback

  • net/iavf: remove dead code in TM node parameter check

  • net/iavf: remove PHC polling from Rx datapath

  • net/iavf: report selected burst mode when no-poll active

  • net/iavf: reuse device alarm for PHC sync

  • net/iavf: wait for PF reset start before reinitializing

  • net/ice: fix adapter stopped on device start failure

  • net/ice: fix advertising timestamp offload

  • net/ice: fix buffer leak in config of Tx queue TM node

  • net/ice: fix DCF Rx packets statistics underflow

  • net/ice: fix L2TPv2 outer MAC in training packet

  • net/ice: fix Rx packets statistics underflow

  • net/ice: fix shaper profile reference count tracking

  • net/ice: fix TM hierarchy deletion

  • net/ice: fix TM node ID validation against configured queues

  • net/ice: reject unsupported flow item range

  • net/ice: use configured outer TPID for VLAN filter in DVM

  • net/intel: fix use of non-recommended string functions

  • net/ixgbe: fix EEPROM read on copper media

  • net/ixgbe: fix flow control frame byte adjustment

  • net/ixgbe: fix flows not being scoped to port

  • net/ixgbe: fix good octets CRC adjustment

  • net/ixgbe: fix L4 protocol mask handling

  • net/ixgbe: fix MAC/VLAN item validation for ntuple

  • net/ixgbe: fix non-shared data in IPsec session

  • net/ixgbe: fix queue received bytes CRC adjustment

  • net/ixgbe: fix SCTP protocol-only flow parsing

  • net/ixgbe: fix shared PF pointer in representor

  • net/ixgbe: reset flow state on clear paths

  • net/mana: fix Rx mempool leak on port stop

  • net/mlx5: fix double free in vectorized Rx recovery

  • net/mlx5: fix eCPRI match on HWS root table

  • net/mlx5: fix flow counter race on query completion

  • net/mlx5: fix handling of FCQ allocation failure

  • net/mlx5: fix Rx split segment counter type

  • net/mlx5: fix skipping PF representors

  • net/mlx5: fix uninitialized skip count

  • net/mlx5: prepend implicit items in sync flow creation

  • net/mlx5: redirect LACP traffic for legacy E-Switch

  • net/mlx5: remove nonsensical flow action class ID checks

  • net/mlx5: use port index as representor index

  • net/nbl: fix multicast reception in promiscuous mode

  • net/netvsc: forward per-queue stats from VF device

  • net/netvsc: retry full probe when IB device not ready

  • net/netvsc: retry on SIOCGIFHWADDR failure during VF hotplug

  • net/netvsc: retry VF hotplug until device disappears

  • net/netvsc: retry when no matching MAC found

  • net/nfp: fix null dereference in flower ctrl NFD3 Tx

  • net/nfp: fix shifts in BAR size calculation

  • net/ngbe: add CDR config for YT PHY

  • net/ngbe: fix VF promiscuous and allmulticast

  • net/ngbe: remove duplicate xstats counters

  • net/ngbe: support USO

  • net/octeontx/base: fix out-of-bounds DQ range lookup

  • net/octeontx: fix overflow in device name formatting

  • net/pcap: advertise Tx multi segment

  • net/pcap: fix error accounting and backpressure on Tx

  • net/pcap: fix Windows build

  • net/pcap: reject non-Ethernet interfaces

  • net/r8169: fix crash during RTL8168 init

  • net/tap: avoid using Netlink socket if closed

  • net/txgbe: enable Tx descriptor check per queue

  • net/txgbe: fix Amber-Lite temperature tracking

  • net/txgbe: fix EEPROM query

  • net/txgbe: fix FEC mode configuration on 25G NIC

  • net/txgbe: fix inaccuracy in Tx rate limiting

  • net/txgbe: fix link flow control config for Sapphire

  • net/txgbe: fix link flow control registers for Amber-Lite

  • net/txgbe: fix link stability for 25G NIC

  • net/txgbe: fix link stability for 40G NIC

  • net/txgbe: fix link stability for Amber-Lite backplane mode

  • net/txgbe: fix link status check

  • net/txgbe: fix mass of unknown interrupts

  • net/txgbe: fix module info query

  • net/txgbe: fix null dereference in link alarm

  • net/txgbe: fix SFP module identification

  • net/txgbe: fix traffic class priority configuration

  • net/txgbe: fix Tx descriptor free

  • net/txgbe: fix Tx write-back pointer reset

  • net/txgbe: remove duplicate xstats counters

  • net/txgbe: support USO

  • net/txgbe: validate lane number before use

  • pipeline: fix build with sanitizers or debug options

  • power: fix off-by-one in uncore env bounds check

  • power: remove duplicate uncore set frequency typedef

  • power: validate enabled lcores in PMD management API

  • ring: fix zero-copy burst API documentation

  • security: harden telemetry parameter parsing

  • spinlock: fix API comments

  • spinlock: remove volatile qualifier

  • tailq: fix name truncation

  • telemetry: fix thread-unsafe command parsing

  • test/crypto: fix prehash in ML-DSA session

  • test/crypto: validate ML crypto keys

  • test/dispatcher: preserve event opaque field

  • test/eal: remove PCI probing for recursive calls

  • test/eal: remove PCI probing for vdev tests

  • test: fix failing tests on FreeBSD

  • test/latency: fix intermittent failure on slow platforms

  • test/security: check for capabilities

  • test/security: fix MTU calculation underflow

  • test/security: remove fast-free Tx flag

  • test/security: sync inline IPsec soft expiry check

  • vdpa/nfp: fix double PCI unmap on unplug

  • version: 25.11.3-rc1

  • version: 25.11.3-rc2

1.8.2. 25.11.3 Validation

  • Nvidia(R) Testing

    • Basic functionality with testpmd

      • Tx/Rx

      • xstats

      • Timestamps

      • Link status

      • RTE flow

      • RSS

      • VLAN filtering, stripping and insertion

      • Checksum/TSO

      • ptype

      • link_status_interrupt example application

      • l3fwd-power example application

      • Multi-process example applications

      • Hardware LRO tests

      • Buffer Split

      • Tx scheduling

    • Build tests

    • ConnectX-7

      • Ubuntu 24.04, DOCA-Host 3.4.0-085000, fw 28.49.1014

    • BlueField-3 DPU

      • Ubuntu 24.04, DOCA SW 3.4.0, fw 24.49.1014

  • Intel(R) Testing

    • Compile testing

      • Ubuntu 25.10, Ubuntu 24.04, RHEL 10, RHEL 9.6

      • Fedora 43, FreeBSD 15, SUSE 16

      • OpenAnolis 8.10, OpenEuler 24.04-SP2, AzureLinux 3.0

    • Functional testing

      • PF/VF (i40e, ixgbe)

      • PF/VF (ice)

      • IPsec

      • Virtio

      • Cryptodev

      • DLB

      • AF_XDP, Power, CBDMA, DSA

    • Performance testing

      • Throughput performance

      • Cryptodev latency

      • PF/VF NIC single core/NIC performance

      • XXV710/E810 NIC Performance

1.8.3. 25.11.3 Known Issues

  • DPDK 25.11.3 contains fixes from DPDK 26.07

1.8.4. 25.11.3 Fixes skipped and status unresolved

  • 96cc9b6ea6 net/idpf: fix multi-segment mbuf leak in split Tx path

  • 7773d4ad0d net/ice: use granular packet types for L2TPv2 PPP

  • 96d0e13e5f dts: fix cryptodev latency parsing

  • 8e038dee42 net/idpf: fix Tx of large mbuf segments