Release status meeting minutes 2022-19-05

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Intel

* Debian/Microsoft

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

* Xilinx/AMD

Release Dates

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The following are the current dates for 22.07:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 10 April 2022

* API freeze (-rc1): 6 June May 2022 - **Note change from 30 May**

* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 June 2022

* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 June 2022

* Release: 13 July 2022

Updated dates are posted shortly after they are changed at:

http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

Here are some provisional dates for 22.11:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 14 August 2022

* API freeze (-rc1): 3 October 2022

* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 October 2022

* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 31 October 2022

* Release: 16 November 2022

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Moving forward with merging patches

* next-net-intel

  * Some patches waiting to be pulled

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches pushed to next-net

  * More work ongoing

* next-net-brcm

  * No update

* next-net-mrvl

  * Almost all patches merged and pulled

  * Some fixes required - could go in RC2

* next-eventdev

  * 20+ patches merged - almost all merged

  * 1 patchset for DLB has comments and will wait for RC2

* next-virtio

  * Reviewing vdpa/ifc patchset to support for virtio block devices

  * Working on patchset for vhost software checksum in the Rx path

  * Reviewed vhost per queue statistics patchset

  * Async vhost patches merged

* next-crypto

  * Some patches reviewed and merged

  * Asymmetric crypto under review

* main

  * RC1 will move to June 6th 2022

  * Thread patch series for Windows - ready for merge

  * EAL patches ready to merge

  * Enabled ASAN checking in the CI

  * Patchset to support DPDK on 64bit RISC-V architecture

    * This is a new architecture

  * Lock annotations series:

    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=22292

    * Needs docs

  * Cleanup series for memory leaks and NULL pointers need reviews:

    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/

  * Header split patchset needs review

    * http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220402104109.472078-2-wenxuanx.wu@intel.com/

  * GCC 12 issues

    * There is a patchset to disable the new warnings and allow compilation but some

      should be fixed: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=22993

  * RFC to split driver specific commands out of testpmd

    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23000&state=*

LTS

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* 21.11.1

  * Released April 26th

* 20.11.5

  * Released April 4th

* 19.11.12

  * Released April 7th

* Distros

  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * Ubuntu 22.04 contains DPDK 21.11

Defects

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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects

  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/

Opens

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* None

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.