Release status meeting minutes 2025-06-03
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.07:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 20 April 2025
- API freeze (-rc1): 4 June 2025
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 25 June 2025
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 2 July 2025
- Release: 11 July 2025

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


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * 190 patches for merge.
  * Mainly merged. Some still in progress.

* next-net-intel
  * 10 patches on next-net-intel tree.
  * One more base code update expected.

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

* next-net-mlx
  * ~20 merged.

* next-net-mvl
  * Tree ready for merge/pull.

* next-eventdev
  * Tree ready for merge/pull.

* next-baseband
  * Tree has been pulled.
  * Looking at one other series.

* next-virtio
  * Tree has been pulled.
  * Fix for vdpa device hot plug. In progress.

* next-crypto
  * Patches have been merged and some ready to pull.
  * New crypto driver for ZTE
  * New Algorithm: Snow 5G

* next-dts
  * 7 series ready to review and merge.

* main
  * RC1 merging in progress.
  * Some major series to review such as rte_graph, mempool.
  * RC1 likely to be June 6th.

  * DPDK Bay Area Summit - Santa Clara, CA
    https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-bay-area-summit-santa-clara-ca-september-17-18-2025/


Other
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  - None.

LTS
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Released LTS versions:

* 24.11.2
* 23.11.4
* 22.11.8


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.