Release status meeting minutes 2025-04-08
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Debian
* Intel
* Marvell
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 27.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 20 April 2025
- API freeze (-rc1): 30 May 2025
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 June 2025
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 June 2025
- Release: 11 July 2025

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


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * ~50 patches pending and around 30 waiting for review.

* next-net-intel
  * ~12 patches for review and merge.

* next-net-broadcom
  * No updates this week.

* next-net-mlx
  * No updates this week.

* next-net-mvl
  * No updates this week.

* next-eventdev
  * No updates this week.

* next-baseband
  * No patches at the moment.

* next-virtio
  * 1 fix and some patch series pending.

* next-crypto
  * 15 patches pending.
  * New crypto driver for ZTE

* next-dts
  * 20+ patches.

* main
  * Merged symbol export series. This will affect all patches
    that aren't merged yet and which touch the version map files.
    Please rebase your patches and resubmit. David Marchand
    can help.
  * Patch reviews ongoing.


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
---

Backporting in progress. Current LTS versions:

* 24.11.2
* 23.11.3
* 22.11.7

Test results are coming in. Still waiting for some validation.

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
-------

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



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 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.