Release status meeting minutes 2021-11-11
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v21.11 dates: http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates
  * Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 16 November 2021
  * Release: 24 November 2021



* Proposed dates for 22.02

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 14 December 2021

  * API freeze (-rc1): 14 January  2022

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 January  2022

  * Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 18 February 2022

  * Release:  22 February 2022



* There is also a proposal to have only 3 releases in 2022:

  *  22.03, 22.07, 22.11


Subtrees
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* next-net

  * Pulled from subtrees

  * Waiting for some updates

  * I40e descriptor fix

  * - 20% performance drop on ARM  platforms
    - Needs some discussion

* next-net-intel

  * Tree mostly closed.

* next-net-mlx

  * Some fixes coming for
  * Updates required for build issues

* next-net-brcm

  * No update.

* next-net-mrvl

  * 2 patches for merging

* next-eventdev

  * 3 patches merged
  * Working on doc changes

* next-virtio

  * Xilinx vdpa driver - new    version sent for review
  * Some fix patches to be merged

* next-crypto

  * Fixes under review

  * Xilinx vdpa driver - merged



* main

  * Rc2 released on 2021-11-09

  * New driver for DMA

  * GPU/CUDA library to be merged

  * Issues with Clang 13 on Fedora 35

  * Need to enable ASAN in CIs

  * L3FWD - series that changes the IP addresses

  * Interrupt series merged

  * DMA drivers to merge

  * DMARC mitigation has happened for dpdk.org's mailing lists
    https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2021-September/000385.html



LTS
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* There is a proposal to make 19.11 LTS into a 3 year release

* 20.11.3 released on Monday Sept 6

* 19.11.10 released on Monday Sept 6



* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04




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 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

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