Release status meeting minutes 2023-12-14

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

 

Participants:

* 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:      6 November 2023

* RC3:     13 November 2023

* RC4:     23 November 2023

* Release: 24 November 2023

 

 

The following are the current working dates for 24.03:

 

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 29 December 2023 (moved from 22 December)

- API freeze (-rc1): 5 February 2024

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 23 February 2024

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 4 March 2024

- Release: 14 March 2024

 

 

 

Subtrees

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* next-net on

  * Patches starting to arrive.

 

* next-net-intel

  * No updates this week.

 

* next-net-mlx

  * Roadmap sent.

 

* next-net-mvl

  * Starting to merge patches.

  * Roadmap sent.

 

* next-eventdev

  * Starting to merge patches.

 

* next-baseband

  * No updates this week.

 

* next-virtio

  * No updates this week.

 

* next-crypto

  * ~37 patches in backlog.

 

* main

  * V1 date moved to December 29th

  * New branch mirroring to GitHub to reduce load on git.dpdk.org.

  * Request for Roadmaps: https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/

  * Looking for a new maintainer for the DMA device performance tool.

 

 

Proposed Schedule for 2023

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

 

 

LTS

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* 22.11.4 - In progress

* 21.11.6 - RC in progress

* 20.11.10 - Released.

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

 

 

* Distros

  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11

  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains DPDK v21.11

  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11

 

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.