Release status meeting minutes 2023-06-08
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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 current dates for 23.07:

* V1:      22 April 2023
* RC1:      7  June 2023 - Trending to 9 June.
* RC2:     21  June 2023
* RC3:     28  June 2023
* Release: 12  July 2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Focused on rte_flow and eth_dev.
  * Mainly ready for RC1.
  * PTP Time-sync looking for comments.
  * We still have a lack of a bonding maintainer for reviews.

* next-net-intel
  * Mainly ready for merge
  * Some bug fixes under review.

* next-net-mlx
  * Merging patches.
  * Should be mainly ready for RC1.

* next-net-mvl
  * PR merged.
  * Some more patches in prep for RC2.

* next-eventdev
  * PR merged.

* next-baseband
  * Some discussion on API changes in BBDev.
  * Tree clean otherwise. Ready for merge.

* next-virtio
  * Eelco's series merged.
  * VDUSE - Vhost VDPA in userspace. https://lwn.net/Articles/841054/
    * Rebased on top of Eelco's series.

* next-crypto
  * Mainly ready.
  * Compilation issue with IPsecMB
  * Should be ready for merge in next 1-2 days.

* main
  * Working to merge patches to improve the Windows port
  * Merged telemetry updates for memory allocator.
  * Big features mainly merged.
  * New version of graph bind/unbind required.
  * Issues with Intel lab CI reporting false positives should be fixed.
  * RC1 targeted for June 9



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): 21 June 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 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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* 22.11.1
  * Released on May 7
* 21.11.4
  * Released May 17
* 20.11.8
  * Released on April 27
* 19.11.15
  * Will be updated with CVE and critical fixes only.


* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * 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

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