Release status meeting minutes 2023-10-26

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* 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:     27 October 2023 - Trending to 1 November

* RC3:      3 November 2023

* Release: 15 November 2023

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Eth_dev patches need to be finalized for RC2.

  * 3 new drivers - not merged yet.

    * Napatech driver will probably be in the next release

* next-net-intel

  * Some fixes merged.

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches merged.

  * ~45 patches for RC2

* next-net-mvl

  * Prepping for RC2.

* next-eventdev

  * Prepping for RC2.

* next-baseband

  * Some patches ready

  * Patches for new FPGA variant

* next-virtio

  * Some fixes added and ready for pull.

* next-crypto

  * ~10 patches in RC2 backlog.

  * Merging in progress.

* main

  * Looking at Windows patches.

  * Series that need acks/reviews:

    https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/

  * Series to mark experimental APIs as stable. Request for maintainers to

    review an APIs that will move to stable.

  * Regression in bitops API in RC1 - Fix merged.

  * Reviews in progress for some of applications like DMA perf and ML dev test, and Pipeline.

  * RC2 trending to November 1st.

Proposed Schedule for 2023

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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

23.11

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 12 August 2023

  * API freeze (-rc1): 11 October 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 27 October 2023 - Trending to 1 November

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 3 November 2023

  * Release: 15 November 2023

LTS

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LTS in the current cycle have been released.

* 22.11.2 - Released

* 21.11.5 - Released

* 20.11.9 - Released

* 19.11.15

  * Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.

* Distros

  * v22.11 in Debian 12

  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains 21.11

  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains 22.11

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.