Release status meeting minutes 2025-09-23

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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

  * 23 patches pending.

  * 53 under review. Mainly in 3 large drivers.

* next-net-intel

  * 29 patches across 8 patchsets.

* next-net-mlx

  * 16 patches ready to be pulled.

  * 12 under review.

* next-net-mvl

  * mainly merged and ready.

  * 20 patches under review.

* next-eventdev

  * 1 RFC from Ericsson under review.

* next-baseband

  * Series under review.

* next-virtio

  * 1 series for SPDK.

  * Some other minor patches in progress.

* next-crypto

  * 28 patches in backlog.

  * Asking for review of PQC RFC.

   https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20250828070657.8968-1-gmuthukrishn@marvell.com/

* next-dts

  * 9 series in progress.

  * Adding new test: RSS offload

* main

  * Prepping for RC1.

  * Some new work around RISC-V

  * API freeze planned for 6 October 2025

Other

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  - None.

LTS

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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

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* 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.