Release status meeting minutes 2023-06-29
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* AMD
* Intel
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.07:

* V1:      22 April 2023
* RC1:     13  June 2023
* RC2:     27  June 2023 - Moved from 23 June
* RC3:      5  July 2023 - Moved from 30 June
* Release: 17  July 2023 - Moved from 12 July


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * RC2 released. Waiting for test results and fixes.
  * Issue with testpmd and port forwarding:
    https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259

* next-net-intel
  * No update.

* next-net-mlx
  * No update.

* next-net-mvl
  * No update.

* next-eventdev
  * No update.

* next-baseband
  * No update.

* next-virtio
  * No update.

* next-crypto
  * No update.

* main
  * RC2 released 2023-06-27

  * Need to remove some code from the Marvell regex driver since it
    is based on private APIs and can't be compiled.

  * Maintainers list needs to be refreshed. Can everyone please check
    the current MAINTAINERS and make any changes.

  * All maintainers should be registered in Bugzilla. This will
    become mandatory via checkpatch.

  * DPDK EU Summit, call for papers closes this week:
    https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/
    https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/program/cfp/

  * NOTE: deprecation notices should be sent soon so we can get sufficient Acks.

  * Updated RC/Release dates:
    RC3 July 5
    RC4 July 12
    Release July 17



Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

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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Backporting in progress.

Next LTS releases:

* 22.11.2
* 21.11.5
* 20.11.9
* 19.11.15
  * Will be updated with CVE and critical fixes only.


* Distros
  * v22.11 in Debian 12
  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains 21.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains 22.11

Defects
-------

* 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 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.