Release status meeting minutes 2023-03-23

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Debian/Microsoft

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.03:

* V1:      25 December 2022

* RC1:     20 February 2023

* RC2:     12 March    2023

* RC3:     19 March    2023

* RC4:     27 March    2023

* Release: 29 March    2023

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Mainly closed after RC3

  * Driver documentation to be updated

* next-net-intel

  * No update

* next-net-mlx

  * Some patches pending:

    * GCC12 fix

* next-net-mvl

  * No more patches after RC3.

* next-eventdev

  * No more patches after RC3.

* next-baseband

  * No more patches after RC3.

* next-virtio

  * Some fix patches. Can mainly wait to the next release.

  https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196

* next-crypto

  * No update

* main

  * Looking at deprecation notices

  * Please update Release Notes.

  * In particular please update the "Tested Platforms" section of the Release Notes:

    https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_23_03.html#tested-platforms

  * RC4 planned for Monday 27 March

  * Release planned for Wednesday 29 March

  * 22.07 V1 deadline moved out 1 week to 15 April

Proposed Schedule for 2023

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

23.07

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 15 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

* 21.11.4

  * Backports up to date with RC3

* 20.11.8

  * Backports up to date with RC3

* 19.11.15

  * CVE and critical fixes only.

* Distros

  * v20.11 in Debian 11

  * Ubuntu 22.04 contains 21.11

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 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.