Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 1 July 2021
:toc:
.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
.Participants:
* Broadcom
* Canonical
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* `v21.08` dates
- Proposal/V1: Wednesday, 2 June (completed)
- -rc1: Wednesday, 7 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
- Backlog is a little big at the moment. RC1 will probably slip to Wednesday
7th July.
- Most subtrees PRs are ready or close to ready.
- Still waiting update on Solarflare patches.
- New auxiliary bus patch series should go into this release.
* next-net
- Testpmd patchset for Windows.
- Looking at net/sfc patches.
* next-crypto
- 4 new PMDs in this release:
** CNXK - reviewed - awaiting final version for RC1.
** MLX - still in progress. New version will be sent today.
** Intel QAT - under review.
** NXP baseband - requires new version.
* next-eventdev
- PR for RC1 will be completed today.
* next-virtio
- PR posted yesterday.
* next-net-brcm
- All patches in sub-tree waiting to be pulled.
* next-net-intel
- Proceeding okay. No issues
* next-net-mlx
- PR not pulled due to comments that need to be addressed.
- New version sent today.
* next-net-mrvl
- Pull request for RC1 sent.
LTS
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* `v19.11` (next version is `v19.11.9`)
- RC3 tagged.
- Target release date July 2, however there are some late reported
MLX regressions that are under investigation.
- There are 2 other known issues:
** Plenty of GCC11 and Clang build issues were fixed, but 19.11.9
is not yet compatible with clang 12.0.0. Fixes are discussed
and a potential 3 backports identified for 19.11.10:
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733
** Due to a kernel patch backport in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SP3 6, compilation of kni fails there:
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728
* `v20.11` (next version is `v20.11.2`)
- RC2 released
- Some test reports coming in (Intel, MLX)
- 6 July is proposed release date.
* 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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* There in an ongoing initiative around ABI stability which was
discussed in the Tech Board call. A workgroup has come up
with a list of critical and major changes required to let us
extend the ABI without as much disruption. For example:
** export driver interfaces as internal
** hide more structs (may require uninlining)
** split big structs + new feature-specific functions Major
** remove enum maximums
** reserved space initialized to 0
** reserved flags cleared
* We need to fill details and volunteers in this table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1betlC000ua5SsSiJIcC54mCCCJnW6voH5Dqv9UxeyfE/edit?usp=sharing
* The DPDK North America Summit will be on July 12-13. Registration is free.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit-north-america/
.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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