[dpdk-announce] release candidate 20.08-rc4

[Thomas Monjalon]

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.08-rc4

There are 27 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.html
More deprecation notices are pending for acceptance.

This is the last release candidate for DPDK 20.08.
After -rc4 there should be only doc updates.
Please review pending patches related to the documentation
and the deprecation notices:
	https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?q=doc

Please share some release validation results
by replying to this message (at dev at dpdk.org).
If no critical issue is reported, 20.08 will be closed end of this week.

If you are preparing the next release cycle, please send your v1 patches
before the end of August.
We should also build and discuss the features roadmap for 20.11 soon,
so we can prioritize tasks and avoid flooding maintainers.

Thank you everyone