DPDK Release Status Meeting 2022-06-09

DPDK Release Status Meeting 2022-06-09

[Mcnamara, John]

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Release status meeting minutes 2022-06-09
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Intel
* Debian/Microsoft
* 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): 20 June 2022
* Builtin 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
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 31 October 2022
* Release: 16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * RC1 complete
  * Some more Testpmd and driver patches for after RC1

* next-net-intel
  * No update

* next-net-mlx
  * No update

* next-net-brcm
  * No update

* next-net-mrvl
  * Patches merged for RC1
  * ~ 25 patches in queue for RC2

* next-eventdev
  * ~ 15 patches queued for RC2

* next-virtio
  * ~ 40 patches merged
    * Vhost Aysnc
    * Per queue statistics
    * Virtio block support for vdpa
  * ~ 40 patches in queue for RC2
    * Big series from Nvidia posted on Monday.
      Will probably be pushed to next release.

* next-crypto
  * ~ 30 patches in queue for RC2
  * Series on OpenSSL 3.0 ongoing


* main
  * Windows thread patch series merged but needs some followup
  * Risc V series merged
  * Lock annotations series postponed to next release
  * Cleanup series for memory leaks and NULL pointers need reviews:
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/
  * Header split patchset
    * Non-RFC version merged but not yet enabled for all drivers
  * GCC 12 fixes
    * 2 proposals - WIP




LTS
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Note, there is a proposal to merge security fixes to all 3 LTS branches
by August 28th.

* 21.11.1
  * Released 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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