Release status meeting minutes 2024-09-12

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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 current/updated working 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

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Ethdev patches from previous release.

  * 2 New PMD: net/sxe, net/xsc

  * 2 Updating: net/r8169, net/zxdh. Also Napatech: net/ntnic.

* next-net-intel

  * Base code updates applied.

  * Other base code and fixes in flight.

* next-net-mlx

  * No updates this week.

* next-net-mvl

  * Around 40 patches under review.

* next-eventdev

  * Around 10 patches under review.

* next-baseband

  * Some reviews this week. Progressing.

* next-virtio

  * 1 VDP series to review.

  * 2 new series posted and some fixes.

* next-crypto

  * 60 patches in queue.

  * Some new APIs and changes to APIs.

* next-dts

  * Framework and test suites merged.

* main

  * Big series cleaning up logs in drivers.

  * DPDK Summit Montreal September 24-25, 2024

    * https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/

LTS

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Status of the current LTSes

* 23.11.2 - Released.

* 22.11.6 - Released.

* 21.11.8 - RC sent. Testing 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.