Release status meeting minutes 2025-10-21
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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

Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.11:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 31 August 2025
- API freeze (-rc1): 6 October 2025
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 27 October 2025
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 3 November 2025
- Release: 19 November 2025

See https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * 147 patches pending.
  * 77 to review/merge.

* next-net-intel
  * Tree pulled for RC1.
  * Small number of patches for RC2.

* next-net-mlx
  * Tree pulled for RC1.

* next-broadcom
  * No update.

* next-net-mvl
  * No update.

* next-eventdev
  * No update.

* next-baseband
  * PR ready.

* next-virtio
  * PR ready.

* next-crypto
  * No update.

* next-dts
  * Close to merging the mbuf fast-free test suite.

* main
  * Prepping for RC1.
  * Most submitted trees merged.
  * RC1 probably by 22 October 2025


Other
-----
  - None.

LTS
---

Released LTS versions:

* 24.11.3 - Released 2025-08-19
* 23.11.5 - Released 2025-08-25
* 22.11.9 - Released 2025-08-19
  - 22.11.10 released 2025-09-17 for CVE-2025-23259.


See https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

* 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.
* 19.11.14 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11
  * Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11
  * RHEL 8/9 contains DPDK 23.11

Defects
-------

* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/



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 Tuesday at 14:30 DST over Jitsi on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

You don't need an invite to join the meeting but if you want a calendar reminder just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.