[Doc] Add 0.7.3rc2 release note (#419) (#427)

Add release note for 0.7.3rc2

Signed-off-by: wangxiyuan <wangxiyuan1007@gmail.com>

Author: wangxiyuan

docs/source/developer_guide/versioning_policy.md

@@ -67,15 +67,18 @@ Following is the Release Compatibility Matrix for vLLM Ascend Plugin:
 
 | vllm-ascend  | vLLM         | Python | Stable CANN | PyTorch/torch_npu |
 |--------------|--------------| --- | --- | --- |
-| v0.7.3rc1 | v0.7.3 | 3.9 - 3.12 | 8.0.0   |  2.5.1 / 2.5.1.dev20250320 |
+| v0.7.3rc2 | v0.7.3 | 3.9 - 3.12 | 8.0.0   |  2.5.1 / 2.5.1.dev20250320 |
+| v0.7.3rc1 | v0.7.3 | 3.9 - 3.12 | 8.0.0   |  2.5.1 / 2.5.1.dev20250308 |
 | v0.7.1rc1 | v0.7.1 | 3.9 - 3.12 | 8.0.0   |  2.5.1 / 2.5.1.dev20250218 |
 
 ## Release cadence
 
-### Next final release (`v0.7.3`) window
+### release window
 
 | Date       | Event                                     |
 |------------|-------------------------------------------|
+| 2025.04.15 | Release candidates, v0.8.Xrc1             |
+| 2025.04.15 | Final release, v0.7.3                     |
+| 2025.03.28 | Release candidates, v0.7.3rc2             |
 | 2025.03.14 | Release candidates, v0.7.3rc1             |
-| 2025.03.20 | Release candidates if needed, v0.7.3rc2   |
-| 2025.03.30 | Final release, v0.7.3                     |
+| 2025.02.19 | Release candidates, v0.7.1rc1             |

docs/source/faqs.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 - [[v0.7.1rc1] FAQ & Feedback](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/19)
 - [[v0.7.3rc1] FAQ & Feedback](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/267)
+- [[v0.7.3rc2] FAQ & Feedback](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/418)
 
 ## General FAQs
 

docs/source/user_guide/release_notes.md

@@ -1,5 +1,27 @@
 # Release note
 
+## v0.7.3rc2
+
+This is 2nd release candidate of v0.7.3 for vllm-ascend. Please follow the [official doc](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.3-dev) to start the journey.
+- Quickstart with container: https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.3-dev/quick_start.html
+- Installation: https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.3-dev/installation.html
+
+### Highlights
+- Add Ascend Custom Ops framewrok. Developers now can write customs ops using AscendC. An example ops `rotary_embedding` is added. More tutorials will come soon. The Custome Ops complation is disabled by default when installing vllm-ascend. Set `COMPILE_CUSTOM_KERNELS=1` to enable it.  [#371](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/371)
+- V1 engine is basic supported in this release. The full support will be done in 0.8.X release. If you hit any issue or have any requirement of V1 engine. Please tell us [here](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/414). [#376](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/376)
+- Prefix cache feature works now. You can set `enable_prefix_caching=True` to enable it. [#282](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/282)
+
+### Core
+- Bump torch_npu version to dev20250320.3 to improve accuracy to fix `!!!` output problem. [#406](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/406)
+
+### Model
+- The performance of Qwen2-vl is improved by optimizing patch embedding (Conv3D). [#398](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/398)
+
+### Other
+
+- Fixed a bug to make sure multi step scheduler feature work. [#349](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/349)
+- Fixed a bug to make prefix cache feature works with correct accuracy. [#424](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/424)
+
 ## v0.7.3rc1
 
 🎉 Hello, World! This is the first release candidate of v0.7.3 for vllm-ascend. Please follow the [official doc](https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/v0.7.3-dev) to start the journey.

docs/source/user_guide/suppoted_features.md

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 |           Feature        | Supported | CI Coverage | Guidance Document |     Current Status        |    Next Step       |
 |--------------------------|-----------|-------------|-------------------|---------------------------|--------------------|
-| Chunked Prefill          |     ❌    |             |                   |          NA               | Plan in 2025.03.30 |
-| Automatic Prefix Caching |     ❌    |             |                   |          NA               | Plan in 2025.03.30 |
+| Chunked Prefill          |     ❌    |             |                   |          NA               | Rely on CANN 8.1 NNAL package release |
+| Automatic Prefix Caching |     ✅    |             |                   | Basic functions available |   Need fully test  |
 |          LoRA            |     ❌    |             |                   |          NA               | Plan in 2025.06.30 |
 |      Prompt adapter      |     ❌    |             |                   |          NA               | Plan in 2025.06.30 |
 |    Speculative decoding  |     ✅    |             |                   | Basic functions available |   Need fully test  |