Release status meeting minutes 2023-06-29

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* Intel

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.07:

* V1:      22 April 2023

* RC1:     13  June 2023

* RC2:     27  June 2023 - Moved from 23 June

* RC3:      5  July 2023 - Moved from 30 June

* Release: 17  July 2023 - Moved from 12 July

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * RC2 released. Waiting for test results and fixes.

  * Issue with testpmd and port forwarding:

    https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259

* next-net-intel

  * No update.

* next-net-mlx

  * No update.

* next-net-mvl

  * No update.

* next-eventdev

  * No update.

* next-baseband

  * No update.

* next-virtio

  * No update.

* next-crypto

  * No update.

* main

  * RC2 released 2023-06-27

  * Need to remove some code from the Marvell regex driver since it

    is based on private APIs and can't be compiled.

  * Maintainers list needs to be refreshed. Can everyone please check

    the current MAINTAINERS and make any changes.

  * All maintainers should be registered in Bugzilla. This will

    become mandatory via checkpatch.

  * DPDK EU Summit, call for papers closes this week:

    https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/

    https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/program/cfp/

  * NOTE: deprecation notices should be sent soon so we can get sufficient Acks.

  * Updated RC/Release dates:

    RC3 July 5

    RC4 July 12

    Release July 17

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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Backporting in progress.

Next LTS releases:

* 22.11.2

* 21.11.5

* 20.11.9

* 19.11.15

  * Will be updated with CVE and critical fixes only.

* 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/

Opens

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* None

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.