Release status meeting minutes 2022-10-06
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


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

* V1 deadline: 24 August   2022
* RC1:          7 October  2022 - Was 3 October
* RC2:         23 October  2022
* RC3:         31 October  2022
* Release:     16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * 2 series critical for this release
    * Protocol based buffer split
    * Additional contention management - Need review/ack from Jerin
  * Hairpin feature is pending
  * Ethdev 2 series targeted for this release
    * Dumping Rx/Tx descriptors - will go in next release
    * Recovering events sent by driver - has comments that need to be addressed
  * NPF driver merged
  * New drivers in this release:
    * Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) PMD
      * New version sent today - looks good for merge
    * Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
      * Some discussion on MIT licenced code
      * Needs tech board review + governing board review
    * idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
      * Reviewed but awaiting replies to comments
      * Needs additional explanation of the intention/scope
    * net/qdma PMD
      * Awaiting reply from submitter
  * Memif driver needs reviews from maintainer

* next-net-intel
  * Being merged - too many things to fix

* next-net-mlx
  * Waiting for RC1
  * Some big changes to come on hardware steering for RC2

* next-net-mrvl
  * Waiting for RC1

* next-eventdev
  * Waiting for RC1

* next-virtio
  * PR pulled for RC1
  * Fix for gcc12 with LoongArch and with ARM64
  * Issue in 22.11 branch causing deadlock in vHost
    * Fix merged. Will need backport
  * vhost call API safe call causes deadlock SPDK
    * SPDK will use a workaround with new API

* next-crypto
  * Most patches merged
  * Review of crypto security and sessions rework patches
    * Call for review comments from community because it
      affects a lot of drivers
    * This is a much needed clean-up
  * Patches around BBDev
    * ACC 100/200 patches
  * FIPs validation patches need reviews acks
  * Asym changes under review

* main
  * 3 series for RC1 still in progress
    * Windows
    * LoongArch
    * Telemetry series
  * Memarea needs reviews in order to get it into this release
  * Member library - adding NitroSketch
  * Power library targeting RC1
    * Needs other reviews
    * Will also be targeted by AMD
  * Bus and device clean up to hide rte_bus, rte_drive
    and rte_device objects
    * Changes needed in other bus drivers
  * New arch type LoongArch is in queue
  * RC1 targeted for Friday 8


Proposed Schedule for 2023

23.03
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 30 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 10 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 February 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 3 March 2023
  * Release: 10 March 2023
23.07
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 April 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 26 May 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 16 June 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 23 June 2023
  * Release: 14 July 2023
23.11
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 11 August 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
  * Release: 17 November 2023


Other
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* TBA

LTS
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LTSes released 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 trialed 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/


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.