Release status meeting minutes 2023-09-21
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
Participants:
* AMD
* ARM
* Debian/Microsoft [No]
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 23.11:
* V1: 12 August 2023
* RC1: 29 September 2023
* RC2: 20 October 2023
* RC3: 27 October 2023
* Release: 15 November 2023
Subtrees
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* next-net
* Mbuf recycle merged.
* New driver from Napatech
* Discussions/reviews ongoing
* New driver from RNP
* Approx 200 patches
* next-net-intel
* No update
* next-net-mlx
* Some patches integrated and some in progress
* next-net-mvl
* All patches merged.
* next-eventdev
* Intel patches merged
* 3 new features under review
* next-baseband
* 2 series under review.
* 1 accepted and moving to PR
* next-virtio
* Working on improvements for VDUSE.
* Other patches under review.
* next-crypto
* Started merging patches. About 50% merged.
* 2-3 new features from Marvell
* RX inject patchset for review.
* SSL/TLS patches for review.
* SM2 patches.
* main
* PCI API cleanup merged. Subtrees take note.
* Patch for Atomics
* This needs review since it is an important API that will touch a lot of components later.
* https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29318
* Preparing for LTS release.
* Removing deprecated libraries.
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): 29 September 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
* Release: 15 November 2023
LTS
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Backports ongoing. Awaiting test results.
Next LTS releases:
* 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.