Release status meeting minutes 2025-10-28
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Agenda:
- Release Dates
- Subtrees
- Roadmaps
- LTS
- Defects
- Opens

Participants:
- ARM
- Debian
- Intel
- Marvell
- Nvidia
- Red Hat
- Stephen Hemminger

Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.11:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 31 August 2025
- API freeze (-rc1): 24 October 2025
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 7 November 2025
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 14 November 2025
- Release: 26 November 2025

See https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/


Subtrees
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- next-net
  - Merged to RC1.
  - 36 patches pending.
  - 11 to review/merge.

- next-net-intel
  - 1 patch outstanding for RC2.

- next-net-mlx
  - No update.

- next-broadcom
  - No update.

- next-net-mvl
  - No update.

- next-eventdev
  - No update.

- next-baseband
  - PR ready.

- next-virtio
  - There is one fix for VDUSE that will be needed in rc2.

- next-crypto
  - Some Coverity fixes.

- next-dts
  - Due to merge Rx/Tx offload test suite.
    - Investigating CI issue.

- main
  - RC2 released 24 October 2025.
  - Some CI issues under investigation.
  - Outstanding work on PMU integration in trace.
  - Updated RC2/RC3 dates. See above.


Other
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  - None.

LTS
---

Released LTS versions:

- 24.11.3 - Released 2025-08-19
- 23.11.5 - Released 2025-08-25
- 22.11.9 - Released 2025-08-19
  - 22.11.10 released 2025-09-17 for CVE-2025-23259.


See https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

- 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.
- 19.11.14 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


- Distros
  - Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  - Ubuntu 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11
  - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11
  - RHEL 8/9 contains DPDK 23.11

Defects
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- Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  - https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/



DPDK Release Status Meetings
----------------------------

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 Tuesday at 14:30 DST over Jitsi on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

You don't need an invite to join the meeting but if you want a calendar reminder just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>" for the invite.