Release status meeting minutes 2026-01-06
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Agenda:
- Release Dates
- Subtrees
- Roadmaps
- LTS
- Defects
- Opens

Participants:
- Broadcom
- Intel
- Marvell
- Nvidia
- Red Hat

Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 26.03:


| Date            | Milestone      | Description                    |
| --------------- | -------------- | ------------------------------ |
| 5 January 2026  | RFC/v1 patches | Proposal deadline              |
| 9 February 2026 | 26.03-rc1      | API freeze                     |
| 2 March 2026    | 26.03-rc2      | PMD features freeze            |
| 9 March 2026    | 26.03-rc3      | Builtin apps features freeze   |
| 16 March 2026   | 26.03-rc4      | Documentation ready            |
| 19 March 2026   | 26.03.0        | Release                        |

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


Subtrees
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- next-net
  - No update.

- next-net-intel
  - 18 patches merged, but a large enough backlog of >40 packets.

- next-net-mlx
  - No major changes in this release.

- next-broadcom
  - Some fixes.

- next-net-mvl
  - Some patches in progress.

- next-eventdev
  - Some patches in progress.

- next-baseband
  - Under review.

- next-virtio
  - Under review.

- next-crypto
  - ~ 11 patches.
  - Snow 5G.

- next-dts
  - Two doc changes that could make it in.

- main
  - Unit test work under review.
  - Series adding additional warnings and fixing
    the resulting issues.
  - Fix for GCC 16.


Other
-----
  - None.

LTS
---

See also: https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#stable

LTS versions ongoing/released:

- 24.11.6 - Released.
- 23.11.5 - Ongoing.
- 22.11.11 - Released.

Older releases:
- 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 13 contains DPDK v24.11
  - Ubuntu 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11
  - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11
  - RHEL 9 contains DPDK 24.11

Defects
-------

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



DPDK Release Status Meetings
----------------------------

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.