Release status meeting minutes 2023-02-23
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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:      8 March    2023
* RC3:     15 March    2023
* Release: 24 March    2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Majority of rte_flow and ethdev patches merged.
  * Some additional PMD and driver patches for RC2.


* next-net-intel
  * About 60 patches has been merged.
  * A few fixes still under review and targeted for RC2

* next-net-mlx
  * Patches merged to RC1
  * ~30 patches for RC2.

* next-net-mvl
  * Mainly merged. Just a few patches remaining.

* next-eventdev
  * Merged.

* next-baseband
  * PR prepared.
  * 1 new series that needs revision from Intel.

* next-virtio
  * No patches currently ready for RC2.

* next-crypto
  * Patchset on FIPs validation needs review.
  * Some old QAT patches from Arek that need ack.
  * Compressdev patch requires reviews
  * PDCP library may still be in RC2 but may move to next release.

* main
  * Patches for MLdev to be merged.
  * Telemetry patches - not all merged (some need discussion)
  * Patch for "vfio: do not coalesce DMA mapping" needs review/discussion:
    * https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230104051936.2456411-1-nipun.gupta@amd.com/
  * Proposed RC2 date: 8 March
  * Proposed RC3 date: 15 March


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

23.03
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 25 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 20 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 81 March 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 15 March 2023
  * Release: 24 March 2023

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

Other
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* TBA

LTS
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Next releases will be:

Backports in progress and pull requests have been sent.

* 22.11.1

* 21.11.4

* 20.11.8

* 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/


Opens
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* None


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