Release status meeting minutes 2023-11-16
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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 working dates for 23.11:

* V1:      12 August   2023
* RC1:     11 October  2023
* RC2:      6 November 2023
* RC3:     13 November 2023
* RC4:     21 November 2023
* Release: 23 November 2023


The following are the current working dates for 24.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 22 December 2023
- API freeze (-rc1): 5 February 2024
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 23 February 2024
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 4 March 2024
- Release: 14 March 2024



Subtrees
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* next-net
  * RC3 released
  * Working on fixes.
    https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1326

* next-net-intel
  * Most fixes merged in RC3.
  * Some small fixes and docs pending for RC4.

* next-net-mlx
  * Some small fixes and docs pending for RC4.

* next-net-mvl
  * Merged in RC3.

* next-eventdev
  * Merged in RC3.

* next-baseband
  * PR sent.

* next-virtio
  * PR sent and merged in RC3.

* next-crypto
  * 3-4 fixes for RC4

* main
  * Move Experimental features older than 2 years to stable.
  * Waiting for latest version of DTS features.
  * Provisional dates for the next phases of the release:
    * RC4:     21 November 2023
    * Release: 23 November 2023


Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates


LTS
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* 22.11.3 - In progress
* 21.11.6 - In progress
* 20.11.10 - In progress
* 19.11.15 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains DPDK v21.11
  * 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.



Drafts/Notes
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* 22.11.1  - Xueming
* 21.11.4  - Kevin
* 20.11.8  - Luca
* 19.11.15 - Christian