Release status meeting minutes 2023-03-23
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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 proposed current dates for 23.03:

* V1:      25 December 2022
* RC1:     20 February 2023
* RC2:     12 March    2023
* RC3:     19 March    2023
* RC4:     27 March    2023
* Release: 29 March    2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Mainly closed after RC3
  * Driver documentation to be updated

* next-net-intel
  * No update

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches pending:
    * GCC12 fix

* next-net-mvl
  * No more patches after RC3.

* next-eventdev
  * No more patches after RC3.

* next-baseband
  * No more patches after RC3.

* next-virtio
  * Some fix patches. Can mainly wait to the next release.
  https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196

* next-crypto
  * No update

* main
  * Looking at deprecation notices
  * Please update Release Notes.
  * In particular please update the "Tested Platforms" section of the Release Notes:
    https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_03.html#tested-platforms
  * RC4 planned for Monday 27 March
  * Release planned for Wednesday 29 March
  * 22.07 V1 deadline moved out 1 week to 15 April


Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

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 LTS releases will be:

* 22.11.1
* 21.11.4
  * Backports up to date with RC3
* 20.11.8
  * Backports up to date with RC3
* 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
send an email to "John McNamara john.mcnamara@intel.com" for the invite.