Release status meeting minutes 2024-11-21

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Debian/Microsoft

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

Release Dates

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The following are the current/updated working dates for 24.11:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 September 2024

- API freeze (-rc1): 19 October 2024

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 12 November 2024

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 20 November 2024

- Release: 29 November 2023

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * RC3 released.

* next-net-intel

  * Most fixes merged in RC3.

* next-net-mlx

  * Merged for RC3.

* next-net-mvl

  * No update.

* next-eventdev

  * No update.

* next-baseband

  * No update.

* next-virtio

  * No update.

* next-crypto

  * Merged for RC3.

* next-dts

  * No merges past RC3 except for fixes.

* main

  * Docs and minor fixes only for RC4.

  * RC3 released on 20 November

  * RC4 targeted for 26 November 2024

  * Release targeted for 29 November 2024

**Note**:

We will look to move this meeting to a US friendly time slot at

the start of December.

LTS

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Status of the current LTSes

* 23.11.3 - In progress.

* 22.11.7 - In progress.

* 21.11.9 - 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 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 9:30 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.