Release status meeting minutes 2025-05-27

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* Broadcom

* ARM

* Intel

* Marvell

* Microsoft

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.07:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 20 April 2025

- API freeze (-rc1): 4 June 2025

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 25 June 2025

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 2 July 2025

- Release: 11 July 2025

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * 190 patches ready for merge.

  * Will start to merge to main tomorrow.

* next-net-intel

  * 24 patches merged and pulled.

* next-net-broadcom

  * No updates this week.

* next-net-mlx

  * ~20~ to be merged.

  * Ready for pull.

* next-net-mvl

  * Patches ready for merge by Friday.

* next-eventdev

  * Waiting for some Intel PMD patches.

* next-baseband

  * Tree has been pulled.

* next-virtio

  * Tree has been pulled.

* next-crypto

  * Patches have been merged and ready to pull.

  * New crypto driver for ZTE

  * New Algorithm: Snow 5G

* next-dts

  * Some patches merged.

  * Planned API changes that were discussed at the summit

    will move to next release.

* main

  * Trees are starting to be pulled for RC1.

  * Patches from Microsoft for EAL and memory.

  * DPDK Bay Area Summit – Santa Clara, CA

    https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-bay-area-summit-santa-clara-ca-september-17-18-2025/

Other

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  - None.

LTS

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Released LTS versions:

* 24.11.2

* 23.11.4

* 22.11.8

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 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11

  * Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11

  * 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.