Release status meeting minutes 2025-02-11

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* Broadcom

* ARM

* Intel

* Marvell

* Microsoft

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 4 January 2025

- API freeze (-rc1): 7 February 2025 – Trending to 12 February

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 February 2025

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 7 March 2025

- Release: 26 March 2025

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * 3 patches pending

  * Some drivers under review

  * 29 patches under reviewing

* next-net-intel

  * Mainly done for RC1

  * ~ 5 patches remaining/in progress.

* next-net-broadcom

  * 9 patches submitted and merged

* next-net-mlx

  * 12 patches merged and awaiting pull

* next-net-mvl

  * 32 patches. Will target RC2.

* next-eventdev

  * 3 patches awaiting review from Intel

* next-baseband

  * 1 series under review.

  * Merging in RC2

* next-virtio

  * PR submitted

* next-crypto

  * Most patches merged

  * 1 PMD ready

  * Series with ZTE driver

* next-dts

  * Issue with Python 3.13 is fixed

  * Mainly new tests pending

* main

  * Merged:

    * VLA patchset for Windows

    * Annotations on locks

    * Memory allocators

  * Fix for GCC 15 zero padding issue

  * RC1 to close 12 Feb

Other

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  - DPDK Summit 2025 will be in Prague in May:

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

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

LTS

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Backporting in progress.

Current LTS versions:

* 24.11.2

* 23.11.3

* 22.11.7

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.