Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 22 April 2021
:toc:
.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Opens
.Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Individual contributor(s)
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* `v21.05` dates
- -rc1 is released on Wednesday, 21 April
** http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/4984397.K2Fab8RJsf@thomas/
- -rc2: Wednesday, 5 May
- Release: Friday, 14 May
* 1-5 May is Labor Day holiday in PRC.
rc1 status
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* -rc1 released yesterday, not enough testing done yet
* Initial Intel testing did not found any major or blocking issue
Subtrees
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* main
- mbuf eCPRI there is no enough review
** will miss this release
- ioat driver updates, postponed to -rc2
- There is Windows build issue, will fix it
- Will improve log registration
** Some work already done/merge, will try to add more in this release
- There is a patch that batch renamed some folders
** https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=99a2dd955fba
** Please be aware of the change, this will break some git blame output
- The indentation of meson files changed
** https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=6fc406593ac1
** Maintainers should be careful on this change
* next-net
- majority of the ethdev patches are merged
** the mutex update for the multi-process left, discussions going on
** testpmd multi-process patch not merged, may be postponed to next release
- driver/testpmd patches and fixes for -rc2
* next-crypto
- Ciara's patch can waiting for new version
- Two PMDs for -rc2
** mlx5 crypto PMD
** NXP baseband PMD
* next-eventdev
- Patches merged for -rc1, dlb and CNXK eventdev driver for -rc2
- For dlb2, waiting for techboard decision on rename
* next-virtio
- Remaining patches will be considered for -rc2
* next-net-brcm
- Majority of the patches made the -rc1, not much for -rc2
* next-net-intel
- A base code updated expected for -rc2
- There are more fixes and driver updated in the backlog
* next-net-mlx
- All planned features are merged for -rc1
- There will be some more features for -rc2
** Some are already in the mail list
* next-net-mrvl
- CNXK net driver will be merged on -rc2
LTS
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* `v19.11.8` is released
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http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20210416094441.1315964-1-christian.ehrha...@canonical.com/
* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
- Not much update at this stage
Opens
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* There is a better to way to include the code into documentation
-
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210421091146.1384708-1-conor.wa...@intel.com/
- We should use this method instead of copy/paste code into doc
- It would be nice to have a generic cleanup on existing documentation
* There are some new Bugzilla defect for build issues
- Kevin submitted Bugzilla defects for it
- Reproduces on Fedora 34 (which will be released soon)
- Wide range of compiler versions are supported
** Because large variety of OS versions are supported
* There is a new security team member, working on security issues can continue
after he ramped up
.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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK
If you wish to attend just send an email to
"John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
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