Release status meeting minutes 2022-06-23

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* ARM

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

* Xilinx/AMD

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.07:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 10 April 2022

* API freeze (-rc1): 6 June 2022 - Actual 8 June

* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 23 June 2022

* Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 30 June 2022

* Release: 13 July 2022

Updated dates are posted shortly after they are changed at:

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

Here are some provisional dates for 22.11:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 14 August 2022

* API freeze (-rc1): 3 October 2022

* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 October 2022

* Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 31 October 2022

* Release: 16 November 2022

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Majority of patches pulled in prep for RC2

  * Some patches still under review

  * Awaiting patch update from NFP

* next-net-intel

  * 4 patches waiting for upstream

  * Looking at fix for GCC12 issue in ice driver

* next-net-mlx

  * Awaiting pull for RC2

* next-net-brcm

  * No update

* next-net-mrvl

  * PR sent for RC2

  * 3 more patches - maybe TC2

  * Issue with GCC12 on qede driver

* next-eventdev

  * Merged

  * No more patches pending

* next-virtio

  * PR prepared and merged

  * Contains new MLX5 patchset

  * Only fixes and docs in queue

* next-crypto

  * Crypto is merged

  * Some fixes and other patches for RC3

* main

  * Prepping for RC2

  * Merging EAL patches

  * Still working through GCC12 issues

    * IP fragmentation patch still under discussion

  * Some followups on Thread API for Windows - from Microsoft

  * Cleanup series for memory leaks and NULL pointers need reviews:

    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/

    * Will be merged if there are no reviews

  * RC2 should be out 2022-05-24

  * Ping Thomas if there are important features that need to be in RC2

LTS

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* 21.11.2

  * Back porting in progress

  * 21.11.1 released April 26th

* 20.11.6

  * Backporting waiting for RC2

  * 20.11.5 released April 4th

* 19.11.13

 * Backporting waiting for RC2

  * 19.11.12 released April 7th

* Distros

  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * 22.04 will contain 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. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

If you wish to attend just send an email to "John McNamara john.mcnamara@intel.com" for the invite.