DPDK Release Status Meeting 2022-04-14

DPDK Release Status Meeting 2022-04-14

[Mcnamara, John]

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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.

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