Release status meeting minutes 2025-08-19
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


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
  * Some patches merged.

* next-net-intel
  * 8 patches applied and 24 in the backlog.

* next-net-broadcom
  * No updates this week.

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches merged.

* next-net-mvl
  * No updates this week.

* next-eventdev
  * No updates this week.

* next-baseband
  * No patches in backlog.

* next-virtio
  * 1 fix but not much other activity yet.

* next-crypto
  * Nothing merged yet but 4-5 patches in the backlog.

* next-dts
  * Luca Vizzarro is the new maintainer.
  * Some minor patches applied.

* main
  * 25.11 in progress.
  * Proposed roadmap milestones: https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/



Other
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  - None.

LTS
---

Released LTS versions:

* 24.11.3 - Released 2025-08-19.
* 23.11.5 - RC1 released.
* 22.11.9 - Waiting for final test results.

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.