DPDK Release Status Meeting 2024-08-22

DPDK Release Status Meeting 2024-08-22

[Mcnamara, John]

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Release status meeting minutes 2024-08-22
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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 current/updated working dates for 24.07:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 26 April 2024
- API freeze (-rc1): 14 June 2024
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 12 July 2024
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 22 July 2024
- Release: 31 July 2023


https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Not many patches yet.
  * Ethdev patches from previous release.

* next-net-intel
  * Nothing merged yet.

* next-net-mlx
  * Not update.

* next-net-mvl
  * Around 10 patches under review.

* next-eventdev
  * Around 10 patches under review.

* next-baseband
  * Some patches merged and some under review.

* next-virtio
  * 2 series to post and some fixes.

* next-crypto
  * 35+ patches in queue.
  * Some new APIs and changes to APIs.

* main
  * Closing out some patches from previous release.
  * Looking at iavf driver.
  * Patches starting to arrive.
  * DPDK Summit Montreal 24-25, 2024
    * https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/


The following are the proposed dates for 24.11:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 September 2024
- API freeze (-rc1): 7 October 2024
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 October 2024
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 4 November 2024
- Release: 18 November 2023


LTS
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Status of the current LTSes

* 23.11.2 - In progress.
* 22.11.6 - Released.
* 21.11.8 - In progress.

* 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.
* 19.11.15 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 24.04 contains DPDK v23.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11
  * RHEL 8/9 contains DPDK 23.11

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.


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