Release status meeting minutes 2023-05-11

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.07:

* V1:      22 April 2023

* RC1:     31   May 2023

* RC2:     21  June 2023

* RC3:     28  June 2023

* Release: 12  July 2023

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Under review.

  * ~120 patches in backlog.

  * GVE license updated from MIT to FreeBSD

* next-net-intel

  * Some patches are waiting for merge and some under review.

  * Seeking community input on adapting DPDK to P4 Runtime backend:

    http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-May/267719.html

* next-net-mlx

  * No update

* next-net-mvl

  * Some patches merged.

  * ~30 patches remaining.

* next-eventdev

  * Some patches merged.

  * AMD patches under review

* next-baseband

  * No major patches in this release.

* next-virtio

  * Reviews ongoing

  * Intel series for port mirroring

    * Some concerns on code duplication and API complexity

  * Report of performance degradation in vhost driver

  * New series on guest notifications in slow path

  * VDUSE - Vhost VDPA in userspace. https://lwn.net/Articles/841054/

    * Under review

* next-crypto

  * 60-70 patches in backlog

  * Patches to add new algorithms

  * Reviewing PDCP patches

  * Reviews and merges ongoing

* main

  * Starting to merge patches to improve the Windows port

  * Reviewing ethdev patches

  * Patches from ARM for PMU

    * Postponed from last release

    * For tracing

    * Awaiting feedback on comments

  * Power Management feature from AMD

  * Memarea feature

  * CDX bus patches from AMD

    * Virtual PCI like bus

  * New checkpatch checks for atomic functions

  * Issues with Fedora 38 and GCC 13

    * Fixes merged

  * Call for updates to the external Roadmap:

    https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/

* Static code analysis

Proposed Schedule for 2023

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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

23.07

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 22 April 2023

  * API freeze (-rc1): 31 May 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2023

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2023

  * Release: 12 July 2023

23.11

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 12 August 2023

  * API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023

  * Release: 15 November 2023

LTS

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Next LTS releases will be:

* 22.11.1

  * Released on May 7

* 21.11.4

  * Some issues found in Intel testing - under investigation.

* 20.11.8

  * Released on April 27

* 19.11.15

  * Will be updated with CVE and critical fixes only.

* Distros

  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains 21.11

  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains 22.11

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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status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to track

progress or milestone dates.

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