Release status meeting minutes 2025-04-15

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* Broadcom

* ARM

* Debian

* Intel

* Marvell

* Microsoft

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed working dates for 27.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 20 April 2025

- API freeze (-rc1): 30 May 2025 - Moving to June 4

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 June 2025 - Moving to 25

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 June 2025 - Moving to July 2

- Release: 11 July 2025

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * ~70 patches pending and around 16 waiting for review.

* next-net-intel

  * ~10 patches, mainly deferred from last release.

  * 2-3 new features

* next-net-broadcom

  * Gathering patches for this release.

* next-net-mlx

  * No updates this week.

* next-net-mvl

  * Anticipate 20-30 patches

  * Review and merge in progress.

* next-eventdev

  * ~20 patches

  * Review and merge in progress.

* next-baseband

  * No patches at the moment.

* next-virtio

  * 1 fix and some patch series pending.

* next-crypto

  * 20+ patches pending.

  * New crypto driver for ZTE

  * New Algorithm: Snow 5G

* next-dts

  * 20+ patches.

* main

  * Testpmd now builds in the CI with MSVC

  * License check approved.

  * Merged symbol export series. This will affect all patches

    that aren't merged yet and which touch the version map files.

    Please rebase your patches and resubmit. David Marchand

    can help.

  * Looking for updates to the roadmap file.

  * The following milestone dates will move by a few days:

    - (-rc1): 30 May  2025 - Moving to 4  June

    - (-rc2): 20 June 2025 - Moving to 25 June

    - (-rc3): 27 June 2025 - Moving to 2  July

Other

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  - DPDK Summit 2025 will be in Prague in May 8-9:

    - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/

    - https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-2025-prague/

LTS

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Testing in progress. Ongoing LTS versions:

* 24.11.2

* 23.11.4

* 22.11.8 - Released

Test results are coming in. Still waiting for some validation.

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 24.04 contains DPDK v23.11

  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11

  * 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.