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

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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

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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

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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

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