Release status meeting minutes 2023-03-02
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* AMD
* ARM
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Red Hat



Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.03:

* V1:      25 December 2022
* RC1:     20 February 2023
* RC2:      8 March    2023
* RC3:     15 March    2023
* Release: 24 March    2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * New versions of some patchsets under review.
  * Fix for crash from trace in ethdev
    * https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1162
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230223123029.2117781-2-adwivedi@marvell.com/
  * Some ASAN warnings under review
  * New version of CPFL - looks okay - minor issues
    * Documentation for dynamic parameters required
    * Abstraction of AXV-512 needed


* next-net-intel
  * 5 patches waiting for merge

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches merged and some more in the backlog for RC2
  * Will make a PR Friday

* next-net-mvl
  * 2-3 patches ongoing

* next-eventdev
  * Merged.

* next-baseband
  * 1 new series that needs revision from Intel.

* next-virtio
  * Some patches to review.

* next-crypto
  * FIPS patches merged
  * PMD patches merged
  * Tree is ready for RC2
  * Compressdev merged


* main
  * Merging some fixes
  * Proposed RC2 date: 8 March
  * Proposed RC3 date: 15 March


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

23.03
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 25 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 20 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 81 March 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 15 March 2023
  * Release: 24 March 2023

23.07
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 15 April 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 31 May 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2023
  * Release: 12 July 2023

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
---

Next releases will be:

Backports in progress and pull requests have been sent.

* 22.11.1
* 21.11.4
* 20.11.8
* 19.11.15
  * CVE and critical fixes only.


* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * Ubuntu 22.04 contains 21.11

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
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