Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 24 June 2021
:toc:
.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
.Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* `v21.08` dates
- Proposal/V1: Wednesday, 2 June (completed)
- -rc1: Monday, 5 July
- Release: Tuesday, 3 August
* Note: We need to hold to the early August release date since
several of the maintainers will be on holidays after that.
* `v21.11` dates (proposed and subject to discussion)
- Proposal/V1: Friday, 10 September
- -rc1: Friday, 15 October
- Release: Friday, 19 November
Subtrees
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* main
- Unit test fixes for issues with Address Sanitizer.
- Build issues with Solarflare patches - under investigation.
- Some of the sub-trees already pulled as part of incremental merging prior
to RC1.
- RC1 targeted for Monday 5th July. Subtree maintainers should submit PRs on
Wednesday 30th June to allow time for RC1 merge.
* next-net
- Andrew working on testpmd patches for Windows - needs ack
- Bonding patches also need reviews
* next-crypto
- 4 new PMDs in this release:
** CNXK - reviewed - awaiting final version for RC1.
** MLX - still in progress. New version with unit tests due in next few
days.
** Intel QAT - under review.
** NXP baseband - requires new version.
* next-eventdev
- CNXK eventdev driver - should be available for RC1.
- Baseband patches reviewed.
* next-virtio
- 4 series from Intel around the async data - new series under review.
- Patchset on numa reallocation under review.
* next-net-brcm
- Big patchset with 58 patches merged into dpdk-next-net-brcm sub tree.
* next-net-intel
- Proceeding okay. No issues
* next-net-mlx
- Should be a small release for Mellanox
- Waiting for PR to be pulled.
* next-net-mrvl
- CNXK ethernet driver (from last release).
- V4 received and under review. Should be merged next week.
LTS
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* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
- RC3 tagged
- Target release date July 2
* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
- RC2 tagged
* Distros
- v20.11 in Debian 11
- v20.11 in Ubuntu 21.04
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 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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