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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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
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