Release status meeting minutes 2023-09-07

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed working dates for 23.11:

* V1:      12 August 2023

* RC1:     29 September 2023

* RC2:     20 October 2023

* RC3:     27 October 2023

* Release: 15 November 2023

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * New driver from Napatech

  * New driver RNP: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29118

  * 1 other new driver

  * More reviews are required.

* next-net-intel

  * 12 patches awaiting merge.

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches coming next week.

* next-net-mvl

  * All patches merged.

* next-eventdev

  * Intel patches merged

  * 12 patches pending.

* next-baseband

  * 2 series under review.

* next-virtio

  * Working on improvements for VDUSE.

  * Other patches under review.

  * No big features for now.

* next-crypto

  * Started merged patches and giving comments.

  * ~55 patches.

  * 2-3 new features from Marvell

  * RX inject patchset for review.

  * SSL/TLS patches for review.

  * SM2 patches.

* main

  * Updates to the MAINTAINERs file to help with automated delegation.

  * Some updates to bit count helpers for Windows but affects other

    trees as well.

  * Patch for Atomics

    * This needs review since it is an important API that will touch a lot of components later.

    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29318

  * Preparing for LTS release.

  * Removing deprecated libraries.

  * Meeting cancelled next week due to DPDK Summit.

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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Backports ongoing. Awaiting test results.

Next LTS releases:

* 22.11.2 - Aug 31 set as release date. In validation.

* 21.11.5 - Released

* 20.11.9 - Released

* 19.11.15

  * Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.

* 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.