Release status meeting minutes 2025-05-13
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* Broadcom
* ARM
* Intel
* Marvell
* Microsoft
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.07:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 20 April 2025
- API freeze (-rc1): 30 May 2025 - Moving to June 4
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 June 2025 - Moving to 25
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 June 2025 - Moving to July 2
- Release: 11 July 2025

See https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/


Subtrees
--------

* next-net
  * No updates this week.

* next-net-intel
  * Some patches waiting to be merged.
    Ready for pull.

* next-net-broadcom
  * No updates this week.

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches waiting to be merged.
    Ready for pull.

* next-net-mvl
  * No updates this week.

* next-eventdev
  * No updates this week.

* next-baseband
  * 1 patch ready for pull.

* next-virtio
  * 1 patch ready for pull.

* next-crypto
  * Started reviewing patches for this cycle.
  * 28 patches in backlog.
  * New crypto driver for ZTE
  * New Algorithm: Snow 5G

* next-dts
  * 6 series ready for merge. They just need to reviews.

* main
  * Some fixes merged.
  * Patches from Microsoft for EAL and memory.

  * The following milestone dates will move by a few days:
    - (-rc1): 30 May  2025 - Moving to 4  June
    - (-rc2): 20 June 2025 - Moving to 25 June
    - (-rc3): 27 June 2025 - Moving to 2  July




Other
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  - None.

LTS
---

Testing in progress. Released LTS versions:

* 24.11.2
* 23.11.4
* 22.11.8

Test results are coming in. Still waiting for some validation.

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

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


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11
  * Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11
  * RHEL 8/9 contains DPDK 23.11

Defects
-------

* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/



DPDK Release Status Meetings
----------------------------

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 Tuesday at 14:30 DST 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.