Release status meeting minutes 2022-19-05
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Intel
* Debian/Microsoft
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Xilinx/AMD


Release Dates
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The following are the current dates for 22.07:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 10 April 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 6 June May 2022 - **Note change from 30 May**
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 June 2022
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 June 2022
* Release: 13 July 2022

Updated dates are posted shortly after they are changed at:
http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

Here are some provisional dates for 22.11:

* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 14 August 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 3 October 2022
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 24 October 2022
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 31 October 2022
* Release: 16 November 2022

Subtrees
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* next-net
  * Moving forward with merging patches

* next-net-intel
  * Some patches waiting to be pulled

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches pushed to next-net
  * More work ongoing

* next-net-brcm
  * No update

* next-net-mrvl
  * Almost all patches merged and pulled
  * Some fixes required - could go in RC2

* next-eventdev
  * 20+ patches merged - almost all merged
  * 1 patchset for DLB has comments and will wait for RC2

* next-virtio
  * Reviewing vdpa/ifc patchset to support for virtio block devices
  * Working on patchset for vhost software checksum in the Rx path
  * Reviewed vhost per queue statistics patchset
  * Async vhost patches merged

* next-crypto
  * Some patches reviewed and merged
  * Asymmetric crypto under review


* main
  * RC1 will move to June 6th 2022
  * Thread patch series for Windows - ready for merge
  * EAL patches ready to merge
  * Enabled ASAN checking in the CI
  * Patchset to support DPDK on 64bit RISC-V architecture
    * This is a new architecture
  * Lock annotations series:
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=22292
    * Needs docs
  * Cleanup series for memory leaks and NULL pointers need reviews:
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/bundle/dmarchand/need_reviews/
  * Header split patchset needs review
    * 
http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220402104109.472078-2-wenxuanx...@intel.com/
  * GCC 12 issues
    * There is a patchset to disable the new warnings and allow compilation but 
some
      should be fixed: 
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=22993
  * RFC to split driver specific commands out of testpmd
    * https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23000&state=*




LTS
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* 21.11.1
  * Released April 26th

* 20.11.5
  * Released April 4th

* 19.11.12
  * Released April 7th


* Distros
  * v20.11 in Debian 11
  * Ubuntu 22.04 contains DPDK 21.11

Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs',  added for hosted projects
  * https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/


Opens
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* None


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