DPDK Release Status Meeting 2024-11-28

DPDK Release Status Meeting 2024-11-28

[Mcnamara, John]

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Release status meeting minutes 2024-11-28
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 4 January 2025
- API freeze (-rc1): 7 February 2025
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 February 2025
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 7 March 2025
- Release: 14 March 2025

https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * RC4 released.

* next-net-intel
  * Some doc/fix patches for post RC4.

* next-net-mlx
  * No update.

* next-net-mvl
  * No update.

* next-eventdev
  * No update.

* next-baseband
  * Nothing beyond RC4.

* next-virtio
  * 2 patches posted. 1 fix and 1 revert.

* next-crypto
  * Nothing beyond RC4.

* next-dts
  * Up to date in RC4.

* main
  * RC4 release.
  * Prepping for release.
  * Release targeted for 29 November 2024
  * The following are the proposed dates for DPDK 25.03:
    V1:  Jan 4
    RC1: Feb 7
    RC2: Feb 28
    RC3: Mar 7
    RC4: Mar 14
    Rel: Mar 21



**Note**:
We will look to move this meeting to a US friendly time slot at
the start of December.


LTS
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Status of the current LTSes

* 23.11.3 - In progress.
* 22.11.7 - In progress.
* 21.11.9 - In progress.

* 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.
* 19.11.15 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 24.04 contains DPDK v23.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11
  * 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 Thursday at 9:30 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.


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