Release status meeting minutes 2022-09-15
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Canonical [No]
* Debian/Microsoft [No]
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Xilinx/AMD [No]


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.11:

* V1 deadline: 24 August   2022
* RC1:          3 October  2022
* RC2:         23 October  2022
* RC3:         31 October  2022
* Release:     16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Ethdev reviews ongoing
  * Some patches merged
  * New drivers in this release
    * Microsoft Azure Network Adatper (MANA) PMD
      * There are several RDMA implementation now.
      * Should we have RDMA bus driver?
    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
    * net/qdma PMD

* next-net-intel
  * Patches waiting for pull

* next-net-mlx
  * No update

* next-net-brcm
  * No update

* next-net-mrvl
  * Patches pushed and waiting for pull

* next-eventdev
  * Patches pushed and waiting for pull

* next-virtio
  * Issue in 22.11 branch causing deadlock in vHost

* next-crypto
  * 30-35 patches merged and awaiting pull
  * Review of crypto security and sessions rework patches
    * Call for review comments from community because it
      affects a lot of drivers
  * Patches around BBDev
    * ACC 100/200 patches
  * FIPs validation patches need reviews acks
  * Asym changes under review

* main
  * Looking at EAL patches
  * Windows Thread series has updates
  * New arch type: LoongArch
  * MLX5 new features coming around rte_flow
  * CC Thomas for attention any patchsets that need early merge


LTS
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Waiting for test results. LTS release on August 29th.

* 21.11.2

* 20.11.6

* 19.11.13

Discussion needed on whether we will continue the 3 year LTS cycle that
was trialled for 19.11 to the 20.11 LTS cycle.


* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * Ubuntu 22.04 contains 21.11

Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/



DPDK Release Status Meetings
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The DPDK Release Status Meeting is intended for DPDK Committers to discuss the
status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to track
progress or milestone dates.

The meeting occurs on every Thursday at 9:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

If you wish to attend just send an email to "John McNamara john.mcnamara@intel.com" for the invite.