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
send an email to "John McNamara john.mcnamara@intel.com" for the invite.