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

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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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