Release status meeting minutes 2022-12-08
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

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


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.03:


* V1:      25 December 2022
* RC1:      8 February 2023
* RC2:      1 March    2023
* RC3:      8 March    2023
* Release: 20 March    2023


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * No update.

* next-net-intel
  *
  * Issue with net/iavf: fix slow memory allocation
    * Needs to be fixed for LTS releases
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221117065726.277672-1-kaisenx.you@intel.com/

* next-net-mlx
  * No update.

* next-net-mvl
  * No update.
  * MLDev targeted for this release.

* next-eventdev
  * Nothing major yet.

* next-baseband
  * New subtree starting from this release.

* next-virtio
  * Virtio-user multi-queue patch.

* next-crypto
  * No update.

* main
  * 22.11.1 released with fix for symbols.
  * Work on thread API ongoing in this release
  * Call for roadmaps for 23.03



Proposed Schedule for 2023
--------------------------

See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

23.03
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 25 December 2022
  * API freeze (-rc1): 8 February 2023
  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 1 March 2023
  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 8 March 2023
  * Release: 20 March 2023

23.07
  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 15 April 2023
  * API freeze (-rc1): 31 May 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

Other
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* TBA

LTS
---

Next releases will be:


* 21.11.3
  * RC sent and under test
  * In progress

* 20.11.7
  * Awaiting test results
  * On track

* 19.11.14
  * Awaiting test results
  * On track

LTSes will need the fix for 2net/iavf: fix slow memory allocation" mentioned above.

* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * Ubuntu 22.04 contains 21.11

Defects
-------

* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* None


DPDK Release Status Meetings
----------------------------

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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