Release status meeting minutes 2022-04-14

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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): 30 May 2022

* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 June 2022

* Built-in applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 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

* Processing patches

* Shared between Andrew/Ferruh/Thomas

* next-net-intel

  * Some patches to pull

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches to pull

* next-net-brcm

  * No update

* next-net-mrvl

  * Around 15 patches in queue

* next-eventdev

  * Around 15 patches in queue

* next-virtio

  * Currently reviewing async vhost patches - discussion ongoing

  * VirtIO block device Intel vdpa

  * Waiting for new revisions

* next-crypto

  * 60 patches in backlog

  * Some patches from last release

  * Series on ipsec-qw under review

  * Patchset for new BBDEV Rejected

  * Flexran SDK - needs to be removed from Meson and use ipconfig

* main

  * EAL patches under review

  * Thread series for Windows

      * Making progress

  * Enabling of ASAN in the CI

      * Requires existing ASAN defects to be closed

      * https://bugs.dpdk.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%5Basan%5D

  * Lock annotations series:

    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=22292

  * FreeBSD support for vmbus

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

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

  * Sample apps being updated

LTS

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* 21.11.1

  * RC1 for 21.11.1

  * Looking for testing before April 13th

  * Release targeted for April 26th

* 20.11.5

  * Released April 4th

* 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.