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

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  - None.

LTS

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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

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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.