Release status meeting minutes 2023-01-19

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

 

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Debian/Microsoft [No]

* 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:      8 February 2023

* RC2:      1 March    2023

* RC3:      8 March    2023

* Release: 20 March    2023

 

 

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Patches being merged but slowly

  * rte_flow has a lot of changes in this release and needs support

  * Some reviews ongoing but we are missing reviewer support on this tree.

 

* next-net-intel

  * No update.

 

* next-net-mlx

  * No update.

 

* next-net-mvl

  * Nearly all patches merged. Ready for pull.

 

* next-eventdev

  * Nearly all patches merged. Waiting for some review comments

 

  3 sets of patches from Intel.

  * Some CNXK updates

 

* next-baseband

  * New tree from this release.

  * Some series merged and some under review.

 

* next-virtio

  * Not many series under review.

  * Vhost async and VDPA patches need review.

 

* next-crypto

  * Some patches merged this week.

  * Build patches for QAT

  * PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) new library targeted for this release

  * Patch for CCP driver from last release

 

* main

  * Thread API from Tyler under review

  * ABI check merged

  * ML Dev patches need review

  * CNI (Container Network Interface) for the AF_XDP driver.

    * Will update patch to include explanation/docs.

  * Request for Roadmaps

 

 

 

Proposed Schedule for 2023

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

 

23.03

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 25 December 2022

  * API freeze (-rc1): 8 February 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 1 March 2023

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 8 March 2023

  * Release: 20 March 2023

 

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

 

Other

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* TBA

 

LTS

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Next releases will be:

 

* 22.11.1

 

* 21.11.4

 

* 20.11.8

 

* 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/

 

 

Opens

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* None

 

 

DPDK Release Status Meetings

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status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to track

progress or milestone dates.

 

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