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.