Release status meeting minutes 2024-11-14

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Debian/Microsoft

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the current/updated working dates for 24.11:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 September 2024

- API freeze (-rc1): 19 October 2024

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 12 November 2024

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): targeted for 19 November 2024

- Release: targeted for 29 November 2024

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Napatech driver merged.

  * Realtec driver merged.

* next-net-intel

  * Some fixes to merge in RC3.

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches merged/planned for RC3.

* next-net-mvl

  * Some bug fixes to merge in RC3. ~8 patches.

* next-eventdev

  * 2 bug fixes to merge in RC3.

* next-baseband

  * Ready for RC3/release.

* next-virtio

  * Ready for RC3/release.

* next-crypto

  * 3-4 fix patches to merge.

  * ZTE driver deferred to next release.

* next-dts

  * Pydantic series merged.

* main

  * RC2 release on 12 November

  * Added improved announcement support.

  * Added Coverity fixes.

  * Merging Broadcom branch.

  * Merging DTS.

  * RC3 targeted for 19 November 2024

  * RC4 targeted for 26 November 2024

  * Release targeted for 29 November 2024

**Note**:

We will look to move this meeting to a US friendly time slot at

the start of November.

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.