DPDK Release Status Meeting 2023-01-19

DPDK Release Status Meeting 2023-01-19

[Mcnamara, John]

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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
---

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
-------

* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* None


DPDK Release Status Meetings
----------------------------

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.



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