Release status meeting minutes 2025-03-04

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Agenda:

* Release Dates

* Subtrees

* Roadmaps

* LTS

* Defects

* Opens

Participants:

* Broadcom

* ARM

* Intel

* Marvell

* Nvidia

* Red Hat

Release Dates

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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 4 January 2025

- API freeze (-rc1): 7 February 2025

- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 February 2025 – Probably 5 March

- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 7 March 2025

- Release: 26 March 2025

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

Subtrees

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* next-net

  * Merging for RC2 in progress.

* next-net-intel

  * Some patches for RC2.

* next-net-broadcom

  * Some fixes outstanding.

* next-net-mlx

  * Patches ready for RC2.

* next-net-mvl

  * PR sent.

* next-eventdev

  * PR sent.

  * Expecting one more application patch for Ericsson.

* next-baseband

  * 2 series in progress.

  * Will submit PR today.

* next-virtio

  * PR ready for RC2.

* next-crypto

  * All merged expect one series that has a dependency on virtio

    (waiting for that PR to land).

* next-dts

  * 2 series tested and ready but awaiting UNH check/test.

* main

  * RC2 in progress. Trending to March 5th.

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/

    The CFP period has been extended to Sunday, 9 March.

      https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/program/cfp/

LTS

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Backporting in progress. Current LTS versions:

* 24.11.2

* 23.11.3

* 22.11.7

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

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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects

  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/

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 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.