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.