Release status meeting minutes 2024-04-18

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Debian/Microsoft

* Intel

* 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:      8 March    2024

* RC3:     15 March    2024

* Release: 27 March    2024

  * 24.07 Proposed dates:

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

    - API freeze (-rc1): 7 June 2024

    - PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2024

    - Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2024

    - Release: 10 July 2023

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * New Napatech PMD.

* next-net-intel

  * Some patches applied from last release.

  * There will be a number of base code updates

    in this release.

* next-net-mlx

  * No update.

* next-net-mvl

  * No update.

* next-eventdev

  * No update.

* next-baseband

  * Merging 1 patchset from previous release.

* next-virtio

  * 2 series posted.

* next-crypto

  * Some patches from previous release.

  * Patches from Pensando.

* main

  * Some issues with latest OVS and DPDK 23.11.

    - Fixes in progress

  * Looking at changes for Graph library.

  * Ongoing changes for Windows.

    - Several series.

  * High level of patches in this release (more than 1000).

  * 24.07 Proposed dates:

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

    - API freeze (-rc1): 7 June 2024

    - PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2024

    - Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2024

    - Release: 10 July 2023

LTS

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Please add acks to confirm validation support for a 3 year LTS window:

http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20240117161804.223582-1-ktraynor@redhat.com/

* 23.11.1 - In progress. Test reports incoming.

* 22.11.5 - In progress. Test reports incoming.

* 21.11.7 - In progress. Test reports incoming.

* 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-LTS will contain DPDK v23.11

  * 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.