Release status meeting minutes 2025-01-28

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Debian

* Intel

* Microsoft

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 4 January 2025

- API freeze (-rc1): 7 February 2025

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 February 2025

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 7 March 2025

- Release: 26 March 2025

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * No update.

* next-net-intel

  * Several patches merged on intel tree

  * Patch to deduplicate Intel driver code

  * ~ 15 patches on the backlog

  * Expecting a large patch to the igc/e1000

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches merged.

  * No big changes in this release.

* next-net-mvl

  * Some patches merged.

  * 5 patches remaining.

* next-eventdev

  * Some patches merged.

  * 5 patches remaining.

* next-baseband

  * 1 series submitting. Awaiting review.

* next-virtio

  * 1 PR merged to fix regression.

  * Backlog of patches to review.

* next-crypto

  * ~30 patches on backlog

  * Series on ZTE driver

  * Issue with checkpatch

* next-dts

  * 34 patches in backlog. Around the same number merged.

  * Issue with Python 3.13

* main

  * The meeting has moved to a US friendly time slot on Tuesdays

  * Merging patches from Microsoft/Windows.

    - Packed attributes

    - Changes for MSVC

  * next-net merged

  * New driver for XSC from Yunsilicon

  * Some fixes have been merged to main to fix

    GCC 15 issues.

DPDK Summit 2025 will be in Prague in May:

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/

https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-2025-prague/

LTS

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Current LTS versions:

* 24.11.2

* 23.11.3

* 22.11.7

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 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 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.