Release status meeting minutes 2022-06-09

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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 proposed current dates for 22.07:

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

* API freeze (-rc1): 6 June 2022 - Actual 8 June

* 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

  * RC1 complete

  * Some more Testpmd and driver patches for after RC1

* next-net-intel

  * No update

* next-net-mlx

  * No update

* next-net-brcm

  * No update

* next-net-mrvl

  * Patches merged for RC1

  * ~ 25 patches in queue for RC2

* next-eventdev

  * ~ 15 patches queued for RC2

* next-virtio

  * ~ 40 patches merged

    * Vhost Aysnc

    * Per queue statistics

    * Virtio block support for vdpa

  * ~ 40 patches in queue for RC2

    * Big series from Nvidia posted on Monday.

      Will probably be pushed to next release.

* next-crypto

  * ~ 30 patches in queue for RC2

  * Series on OpenSSL 3.0 ongoing

* main

  * Windows thread patch series merged but needs some followup

  * Risc V series merged

  * Lock annotations series postponed to next release

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

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

  * Header split patchset

    * Non-RFC version merged but not yet enabled for all drivers

  * GCC 12 fixes

    * 2 proposals - WIP

LTS

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Note, there is a proposal to merge security fixes to all 3 LTS branches

by August 28th.

* 21.11.1

  * Released April 26th

* 20.11.5

  * Released April 4th

* 19.11.12

  * Released April 7th

* Distros

  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * 22.04 will contain 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.