DOCA Release Notes

NVIDIA DOCA SDK release notes containing information on new features, software interoperability, and known issues.

Introduction

DOCA 2.10.0 introduces NVIDIA® BlueField® networking platform (DPU or SuperNIC) enhancements for high-performance and secure AI bare-metal cloud and DOCA-Host updates for supported BlueField and NVIDIA® ConnectX® devices. With enhanced Telemetryand improved OVS-DOCA, DOCA SDK provides an extensive framework for developers.

The DOCA release notes contain the following subpages:

Installation Notes

BlueField-3 devices are not supported with MLNX_OFED as the host driver and are required to use DOCA-Host.

BlueField DPUs with the following SKUs require an 8-pin ATX power supply cable connection when powering up. Without this connection to the power supply cable, the device will not complete the power-on procedure and will not function properly.

B3220 DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CV-AA0 and 900-9D3B6-00SV-AA0
B3240 DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CN-AB0 and 900-9D3B6-00SN-AB0
B3210 DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CC-AA0 and 900-9D3B6-00SC-AA0
B3210E DPUs – 900-9D3B6-00CC-EA0 and 900-9D3B6-00SC-EA0

Refer to the DOCA Installation Guide for Linux for information on:

Setting up DOCA SDK on your BlueField networking platform or SmartNIC
Supported BlueField platforms

DOCA Runtime and DOCA Devel (SDK)

By default, installing DOCA profiles with standard Linux tools (yum, apt) installs both doca-runtime and doca-devel (previously doca-sdk).

doca-runtime includes all the components, libs, drivers, and tools used in the production environment by the DOCA admin
doca-devel includes all the components, libs, drivers, and tools used for development, including reference applications, compilers, etc.

Supported Device Speeds

Uplink/Adapter Card	Driver Name	Uplink Speed
BlueField-3	mlx5	InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR100, HDR, NDR200, NDR Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE, 400GbE
BlueField-2		InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE , 100GbE
BlueField		InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE
ConnectX-8		InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR100, HDR, NDR200, NDR, XDR Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE, 200GbE, 400GbE
ConnectX-7		InfiniBand: EDR, HDR100, HDR, NDR200, NDR Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE , 100GbE , 200GbE , 400GbE
ConnectX-6 Lx		Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE
ConnectX-6 Dx		Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE , 100GbE , 200GbE
ConnectX-6		InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE , 100GbE , 200GbE
ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex		InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE
ConnectX-4 Lx		Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE
ConnectX-4		InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 56GbE , 100GbE

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Technical Support

Customers who purchased NVIDIA products directly from NVIDIA are invited to contact us through the following methods:

E-mail: enterprisesupport@nvidia.com
Enterprise Support page: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/support/enterprise

Customers who purchased NVIDIA M-1 Global Support Services, please see your contract for details regarding Technical Support.

Customers who purchased NVIDIA products through an NVIDIA-approved reseller should first seek assistance through their reseller.

For questions, comments, and feedback, please contact us at doca-feedback@nvidia.com.

Last updated: December 10, 2025