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

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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

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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 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.