Release status meeting minutes 2023-06-15
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


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

* V1:      22 April 2023
* RC1:     13  June 2023
* RC2:     23  June 2023 - Moved from 21
* RC3:     30  June 2023 - Moved from 28
* Release: 12  July 2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Looking at larger patches from SFC and Netronome.

* next-net-intel
  * Mostly merged for RC1.

* next-net-mlx
  * No update.

* next-net-mvl
  * 20 patches merged and ready for RC2.

* next-eventdev
  * 3 patches merged and ready for RC2.

* next-baseband
  * Some discussion on API/ABI changes in BBDev.

* next-virtio
  * Some patches, mostly fixes, under review.
  * Majority of the larger features merged in RC1.

* next-crypto
  * Comments on some of the patches for RC2: needs review
    * MLX5 crypto driver.
    * OpenSSL and QAT: from Kai
  * Some compilations issue on IPsecMB blocking merge.

* main
  * RC1 is out.
  * Graph series has a new revision.
  * Meson build script updates.
  * Patch from Bruce on tracing/logging
  * PCIe maintainership

  * Overall we need more maintainers and/or more trees
    * Trees for graph and pipeline
    * Tree for core and other




Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

23.07
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 22 April 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 7 June 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 23 June 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 30 June 2023
  * Release: 12 July 2023

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
* 20.11.9
* 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/


Opens
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* None


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
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