Release status meeting minutes 2024-07-18

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Debian/Microsoft

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

Release Dates

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The following are the current/updated working dates for 24.07:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 26 April 2024

- API freeze (-rc1): 14 June 2024

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 12 July 2024

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 22 July 2024

- Release: 30/31 July 2023

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Looking at Napatech driver updates post-RC2.

  * Adding some fixes.

  * In this release there is a new driver from ZTE and two from Realtek.

* next-net-intel

  * Main base code changes merged.

  * Some other fix patches under review.

* next-net-mlx

  * Merging some fixes and minor changes.

* next-net-mvl

  * No update this week.

* next-eventdev

  * No update this week.

* next-baseband

  * No update this week.

* next-virtio

  * No update this week.

* next-crypto

  * Around 9 fix patches in Patchwork.

* main

  * RC2 released 12 July.

  * Looking at merging DTS patches and fixes.

  * RC3 should close Monday 22 July

  * RC4 should be Friday 26 July

  * Release on 30/31 July

The following are the proposed dates for 24.11:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 September 2024

- API freeze (-rc1): 7 October 2024

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 October 2024

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 4 November 2024

- Release: 18 November 2023

LTS

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Status of the current LTSes

* 23.11.2 - In progress.

* 22.11.6 - In progress.

* 21.11.8 - In progress.

* 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.

* 19.11.15 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.

* Distros

  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11

  * Ubuntu 24.04 contains DPDK v23.11

  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11

  * RHEL 8/9 contains DPDK 23.11

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.