Release status meeting minutes 2025-01-14
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Intel
* Marvell
* 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: 14 March 2025


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


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * RC4 released.

* next-net-intel
  * Nothing applied yet.
  * Base code updates planned.
  * Also patchset on code deduplication and maybe
    dir restructuring.

* next-net-mlx
  * No update.

* next-net-mvl
  * No update.

* next-eventdev
  * No update.

* next-baseband
  * No patches as yet.

* next-virtio
  * Some series and patches in queue.

* next-crypto
  * Some patches in queue.
  * ZTE compressdev driver.
  * Patches for virtio net and crypto.
    Will be merged first in next-virtio

* next-dts
  * Roadmap on track.

* main
  * The meeting has moved to a US friendly time slot on Tuesdays
  * A lot of patches from Microsoft/Windows.
  * Big VLA series.
  * The following are the proposed dates for DPDK 25.03:
    RC1: Feb 7
    RC2: Feb 28
    RC3: Mar 7
    RC4: Mar 14
    Rel: Mar 21


DPDK Summit 2025 will be in Prague in May:
https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-2025-prague/


LTS
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Current LTS versions:

* 23.11.3.
* 22.11.7.
* 21.11.9.

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 Thursday 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.