Release status meeting minutes 2024-07-25
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* AMD
* ARM
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* 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
  * RC3 released.

* next-net-intel
  * No post RC3 changes.

* next-net-mlx
  * Crash in virtio with VDBA, under investigation.

* next-net-mvl
  * No post RC3 changes.

* next-eventdev
  * No post RC3 changes. 1 fix will go to next release.

* next-baseband
  * No post RC3 changes.

* next-virtio
  * 1 fix patch under investigation.

* next-crypto
  * Issue reported in ipsec-gw. May need to be reverted.
    https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/7c690dcb-8824-452e-85d5-7f665ff56246@intel.com/

* main
  * RC3 released 23 July.
  * RC4 should be Monday 29 July
  * Release on 30/31 July
  * Please ack these and other deprecation notices:
    https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240221161319.7054-1-pbhagavatula@marvell.com/
    https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240722145324.1091-1-gmuthukrishn@marvell.com/
    https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240722145551.1159-1-gmuthukrishn@marvell.com/
    https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240723133706.2150828-1-asasidharan@marvell.com/




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 - In progress.
* 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.