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

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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.

* NOTE: no community call until August 10.