Release status meeting minutes 2023-10-12
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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

Release Dates
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The following are the current working dates for 23.11:

* V1:      12 August 2023
* RC1:     11 October 2023 - Trending 16 October
* RC2:     27 October 2023
* RC3:      3 November 2023
* Release: 15 November 2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Mainly in sync with main for RC1
  * However some eth_dev patches remaining
  * Question around PTP patches

* next-net-intel
  * All the main feature for CPF and IPF merged and awaiting pull.

* next-net-mlx
  * Waiting for pull.

* next-net-mvl
  * PR sent.
  * Some patches for RC2.

* next-eventdev
  * PR sent.

* next-baseband
  * Preparing PR.

* next-virtio
  * No big fixes.
  * Some fixes.

* next-crypto
  * RC1 patches merged to main.

* main
  * Merged AMD power series.
  * Working on dispatcher library, should be ready for RC1.
    https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29250
  * Looking at patches for DMA dev and Graph nodes.
  * RC1 targeted for Monday 16th October


Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

23.11

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 12 August 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 11 October 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 27 October 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 3 November 2023
  * Release: 15 November 2023


LTS
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LTS in the current cycle have been released.

* 22.11.2 - Released
* 21.11.5 - Released
* 20.11.9 - Released
* 19.11.15
  * Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * v22.11 in Debian 12
  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains 21.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains 22.11

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 UTC 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.