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" for the invite.