Release status meeting minutes 2025-11-11

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Agenda:

- Release Dates

- Subtrees

- Roadmaps

- LTS

- Defects

- Opens

Participants:

- ARM

- Broadcom

- 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): 17 November 2025

- Release: 26 November 2025

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

Subtrees

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- next-net

  - Ready for RC2.

  - 9 to be reviewed.

- next-net-intel

  - Ready for RC2.

  - 4-5 in backlog for RC3.

- next-net-mlx

  - Pulled for RC2.

- next-broadcom

  - Tree pulled for RC2.

- next-net-mvl

  - Tree pulled for RC2.

- next-eventdev

  - Tree pulled for RC2.

- next-baseband

  - Tree pulled for RC2.

- next-virtio

  - Tree pulled for RC2.

- next-crypto

  - Tree pulled for RC2.

  - Some patches for RC3.

- next-dts

  - RSS test suite merged.

- main

  - RC2 should be out 2025/11/11.

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 13 contains DPDK v24.11

  - Ubuntu 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11

  - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11

  - RHEL 9 contains DPDK 24.11

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.