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