Release status meeting minutes 2024-03-28
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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 current/updated working dates for 24.03:

* V1:      29 December 2023
* RC1:     21 February 2024
* RC2:      8 March    2024
* RC3:     15 March    2024
* Release: 27 March    2024


  * 24.07 Proposed dates:
    - Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 26 April 2024
    - API freeze (-rc1): 7 June 2024
    - PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2024
    - Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2024
    - Release: 10 July 2023

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


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Complete for RC4/Release.

* next-net-intel
  * Complete for RC4/Release.

* next-net-mlx
  * Complete for RC4/Release.

* next-net-mvl
  * Complete for RC4/Release.

* next-eventdev
  * Complete for RC4/Release.

* next-baseband
  * Complete for RC4/Release.

* next-virtio
  * Complete for RC4/Release.

* next-crypto
  * Complete for RC4/Release.


* main
  * Working on release notes and final documentation fixes.
  * Target release March 28th.

  * 24.07 Proposed dates:
    - Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 26 April 2024
    - API freeze (-rc1): 7 June 2024
    - PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2024
    - Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2024
    - Release: 10 July 2023




LTS
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Please add acks to confirm validation support for a 3 year LTS window:
http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20240117161804.223582-1-ktraynor@redhat.com/

* 23.11.1 - In progress.
* 22.11.5 - In progress.
* 21.11.7 - In progress.
* 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.
* 19.11.15 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 24.04-LTS will contain DPDK v23.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11

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 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.