Release status meeting minutes 2023-07-20
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* AMD
* ARM
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Canonical

Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 23.07:

* V1:      22 April 2023
* RC1:     13  June 2023
* RC2:     27  June 2023
* RC3:     12  July 2023
* RC4:     18  July 2023
* Release: 21  July 2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Fix patches merged for RC4.

* next-net-intel
  * Fixes merged.

* next-net-mlx
  * Merged to RC4.

* next-net-mvl
  * Merged to RC4.

* next-eventdev
  * Merged to RC4.

* next-baseband
  * Merged to RC4.

* next-virtio
  * Merged to RC4.

* next-crypto
  * Merged to RC4.

* main
  * RC4 is out.
  * Deprecation notices to be closed.

  * NOTE: deprecation notices should be sent soon so we can get sufficient Acks.
    https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/deprecation_notices/?state=*

  * Updated RC/Release dates:
    Final release July 21

 * NOTE: no community call until August 10.



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): 29 September 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
  * Release: 15 November 2023


LTS
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Backporting in progress.

Next LTS releases:

* 22.11.2
* 21.11.5
  - Backports done to RC3
* 20.11.9
  - Backports done to RC3
* 19.11.15
  * Will be updated with CVE and critical fixes only.


* Distros
  * v22.11 in Debian 12
  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains 21.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains 22.11

Defects
-------

* 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.


* NOTE: no community call until August 10.