Release status meeting minutes 2023-06-15

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* AMD

* ARM

* Debian/Microsoft

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.07:

* V1:      22 April 2023

* RC1:     13  June 2023

* RC2:     23  June 2023 - Moved from 21

* RC3:     30  June 2023 - Moved from 28

* Release: 12  July 2023

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Looking at larger patches from SFC and Netronome.

* next-net-intel

  * Mostly merged for RC1.

* next-net-mlx

  * No update.

* next-net-mvl

  * 20 patches merged and ready for RC2.

* next-eventdev

  * 3 patches merged and ready for RC2.

* next-baseband

  * Some discussion on API/ABI changes in BBDev.

* next-virtio

  * Some patches, mostly fixes, under review.

  * Majority of the larger features merged in RC1.

* next-crypto

  * Comments on some of the patches for RC2: needs review

    * MLX5 crypto driver.

    * OpenSSL and QAT: from Kai

  * Some compilations issue on IPsecMB blocking merge.

* main

  * RC1 is out.

  * Graph series has a new revision.

  * Meson build script updates.

  * Patch from Bruce on tracing/logging

  * PCIe maintainership

  * Overall we need more maintainers and/or more trees

    * Trees for graph and pipeline

    * Tree for core and other

Proposed Schedule for 2023

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

23.07

  * Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 22 April 2023

  * API freeze (-rc1): 7 June 2023

  * PMD features freeze (-rc2): 23 June 2023

  * Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 30 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

LTS

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Backporting in progress.

Next LTS releases:

* 22.11.2

* 21.11.5

* 20.11.9

* 19.11.15

  * Will be updated with CVE and critical fixes only.

* Distros

  * v22.11 in Debian 12

  * Ubuntu 22.04-LTS contains 21.11

  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains 22.11

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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