Release status meeting minutes 2023-10-19
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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
* RC2:     27 October 2023 - Trending to 1 November
* RC3:      3 November 2023
* Release: 15 November 2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * RC1 released

* next-net-intel
  * Will submit patch for missing actions in P4/rte_flow

* next-net-mlx
  * ~50 patches for RC2

* next-net-mvl
  * Some patches for RC2.
  * Will send PR today

* next-eventdev
  * vdev fixes merged.
  * Will send PR today

* next-baseband
  * Reviews almost complete
  * Waiting for revisions

* next-virtio
  * Some reviews to do.
  * No big features, mainly fixes.

* next-crypto
  * ~20 patches in RC2 backlog

* main
  * RC1 released: October 18th
  * Series that need acks/reviews:
    https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/
  * Series to mark experimental APIs as stable. Request for maintainers to
    review an APIs that will move to stable.
  * Regression in bitops API in RC1 - fix under discussion
    Breaks OVS builds
  * Reviews in progress for some of applications like DMA perf and ML dev test, and Pipeline.
  * RC2 trending to November 1st.


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 - Trending to 1 November
  * 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.