Release status meeting minutes 2024-03-07
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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:      7 March    2024
* RC3:     11 March    2024
* Release: 20 March    2024

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


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Patches merged for RC2.
  * Only docs and fixes in RC3.

* next-net-intel
  * Pushed ~10 patches for RC2.
  * Issue: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1386

* next-net-mlx
  * Merged for RC2.

* next-net-mvl
  * Patches merged for RC2.

* next-eventdev
  * Patches merged for RC2.

* next-baseband
  * 2 fixes merged.
  * Ready for RC2.

* next-virtio
  * Ready for RC2.

* next-crypto
  * Merged for RC2.
  * Series for IPsecMB causing issue in CI.
    - Postponed for RC3 until CI fixed.

* main
  * Windows series merged.
  * Working on hot fix for Hash library.
    - This is currently blocking RC2.
  * RC2 should be out 7 March 2024


  * Proposed 24.03 dates:
    * RC2:      7 March 2024
    * RC3:     11 March 2024
    * Release: 20 March 2024

LTS
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* 22.11.4 - Released.
* 21.11.6 - Released.
* 20.11.10 - Released.
* 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.