Minutes 14 November 2019
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* RC2 Status
* Subtrees
* OvS
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v19.11 dates:
* RC2 is released on Tuesday 12 November
* https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000288.html
* RC3 pushed to *Wednesday 20 November*
* Sub-trees should be ready on *Tuesday 19 November*
* Release pushed to *Wednesday 27 November*
* Proposed dates for 20.02 :
* Proposal/V1: Friday 6 December 2019
* Integration/Merge/RC1: Wednesday 15 January 2020
* Release: Friday 14 February 2020
* Should we move v1 a few days because of 19.11 release date changes?
RC2 Status
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* Intel validation not reported any critical issue, some defects submitted
Subtrees
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* main
* ABI/API tooling, Thomas will deal with scripts
* KNI iova=va patchset waiting for techboard approval
* next-net
* No more ethdev features will be merged, only PMD & testpmd patches
* Pulled from some sub-trees, there will be more
* Backlog seems under control for the rc3
* next-net-crypto
* Most of the patches have been merged to rc2, 4-5 patches in rc3
* CPU crypto patches are deferred to next release, dummy APIs can be provided
on this release since ABI breakage is not allowed in next release.
* arm v8 crypto code planned to be in external library, its maintenance
needs to be clarified
* next-net-eventdev
* no update
* next-net-virtio
* There is a regression that is under investigation
* dynamic logging patch can be deferred to next version
* next-net-intel
* ipn3ke PMD new version will be merged
* Will get some more fixes
* LTS
* Regression on CVE-2019-14818 fixes.
* Affects when VHOST_USER_VRING_NOFD_MASK is set use cases,
looks common enough to make new versions of the stable releases
* More testing will be done before proceeding
OvS
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* pdump support is broken and causing crash, heading to deprecate it in ovs-dpdk
* There are some build issues with 19.11-rc2, working on it
Opens
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* A regression found on the CVE-2019-14818, working on it:
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-November/000295.html
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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
