Release status meeting minutes 2022-09-22
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
Participants:
* ARM
* Canonical [No]
* Debian/Microsoft [No]
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Xilinx/AMD
Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.11:
* V1 deadline: 24 August 2022
* RC1: 3 October 2022
* RC2: 23 October 2022
* RC3: 31 October 2022
* Release: 16 November 2022
Subtrees
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* next-net
* Ethdev patches remaining
* Need reviews
* NPF driver needs review
* https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=24678
* Sets up internal ethdev to communicate with firmware
* Uses OVS specific/duplicated structs
* New drivers in this release
* Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) PMD
* V9 is out and under review
* Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
* Some discussion on MIT licenced code
* idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
* net/qdma PMD
* Awaiting reply from submitter
* Memif driver needs reviews from maintainer
* next-net-intel
* No update this week
* next-net-mlx
* No update this week
* Some big changes to come
* next-net-mrvl
* Patches merged and waiting for pull
* next-eventdev
* Patches merged and waiting for pull
* Some driver dependencies with next-net-mrvl
* ~10 other patches
* next-virtio
* Issue in 22.11 branch causing deadlock in vHost
* Fix merged. Will need backport
* vhost call API safe call causes deadlock SPDK
* SPDK will use a workaround with new API
* next-crypto
* 30-35 patches merged and awaiting pull
* Review of crypto security and sessions rework patches
* Call for review comments from community because it
affects a lot of drivers
* This is a much needed clean-up
* Patches around BBDev
* ACC 100/200 patches
* FIPs validation patches need reviews acks
* Asym changes under review
* main
* Subtrees not pulled yet
* Large rte_device rework done by David
* Bus and device clean-up to hide rte_bus, rte_drive
and rte_device objects
* Changes code in buses in a lot of drivers
* Will need support from sub-tree maintainers
* Looking at EAL patches
* Windows Thread series has updates
* New arch type: LoongArch
* MLX5 new features coming around rte_flow
* CC Thomas for attention to any patchsets that need early merge
* We will have 3 release cycles next year. Initial proposed schedule
Below based on last year’s dates.
Proposed Schedule for 2023
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23.04
* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 30 December 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 10 February 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 February 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 3 March 2023
* Release: 10 March 2023
23.07
* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 7 April 2023
* API freeze (-rc1): 26 May 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 16 June 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 23 June 2023
* Release: 14 July 2023
23.11
* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 11 August 2023
* API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
* Release: 17 November 2023
Other
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* TBA
LTS
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LTSes released on August 29th.
* 21.11.2
* 20.11.6
* 19.11.13
Discussion needed on whether we will continue the 3 year LTS cycle that
was trialed for 19.11 to the 20.11 LTS cycle.
* 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/
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.