Release status meeting minutes 2023-06-01
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
Participants:
* AMD
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.07:
* V1: 22 April 2023
* RC1: 7 June 2023
* RC2: 21 June 2023
* RC3: 28 June 2023
* Release: 12 July 2023
Subtrees
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* next-net
* Focused on rte_dev. Reviews ongoing from Ori.
* Should be okay for RC1.
* Offload flag renaming.
* next-net-intel
* ~ 50 patches waiting for merge
* Seeking community input on adapting DPDK to P4 Runtime backend:
* http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-May/267719.html
* Will set up a community meeting to discuss the P4 table driven approach.
* The meeting is provisionally scheduled for June 7 at 9:30 UTC over Jitsi on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK
* Email me for an invite
* next-net-mlx
* Merging patches.
* Should be mainly ready for RC1.
* next-net-mvl
* PR ready to merged.
* next-eventdev
* PR ready to merged.
* next-baseband
* New series sent this week from Heman.
* Too large for this release, will target 23.11
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=28139
* next-virtio
* Patch from Eelco on offload ready to apply
* Sys call out of the data path
* Spin locks
* Intel series for port mirroring
* Some concerns on code duplication and API complexity
* New series on guest notifications in slow path
* VDUSE - Vhost VDPA in userspace. https://lwn.net/Articles/841054/
* New version sent. Needs to be rebased on top of Eelco's series.
* next-crypto
* Libpdcp merged.
* Asym crypto needs to be reviewed.
* Almost ready for PR merge.
* GCC 13 issues in drivers
* main
* Starting to merge patches to improve the Windows port
* Reviewing ethdev patches
* Patches from ARM for PMU
* Postponed from last release for tracing
* Awaiting feedback on comments - will be deferred if no replies.
* Power Management feature from AMD
* CDX bus patches from AMD
* Virtual PCI like bus
* Issues with Fedora 38 and GCC 13
* Fixes merged
* Issues with Intel lab CI reporting false positives
Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates
23.07
* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 22 April 2023
* API freeze (-rc1): 7 June 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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* 22.11.1
* Released on May 7
* 21.11.4
* Released May 17
* 20.11.8
* Released on April 27
* 19.11.15
* Will be updated with CVE and critical fixes only.
* Distros
* v20.11 in Debian 11
* Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains 21.11
* Ubuntu 23.04 contains 22.11
Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs', added for hosted projects
* https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/
Opens
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* None
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.