Release status meeting minutes 2024-01-18
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* AMD
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat

Release Dates
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The following are the current working dates for 24.03:

* V1:      29 December 2023
* RC1:      5 February 2024
* RC2:     23 February 2024
* RC3:      4 March    2024
* Release: 14 March    2024

https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Starting to review patches.

* next-net-intel
  * Will merge initial patches this week

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches merged.

* next-net-mvl
  * Port representor for cnxk work in progress.

* next-eventdev
  * New feature EMLdev Event Adaptor library.

* next-baseband
  * Reviews started and changes requested.

* next-virtio
  * Patch from Marvell under review.

* next-crypto
  * Started merging.
  * ~80 patches in backlog.
  * TLS support in cnxk driver.
  * New Nitrox PMD for compressdev.

* main
  * Cleanups in progress.
  * New bus driver from Huawei.
  * Working on iavf fix for OVS.



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


LTS
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* 22.11.4 - In progress
* 21.11.6 - Released.
* 20.11.10 - Released.
* 19.11.15 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains DPDK v21.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11

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.