Release status meeting minutes 2022-09-15
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
Participants:
* ARM
* Canonical [No]
* Debian/Microsoft [No]
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
* Xilinx/AMD [No]
Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 22.11:
* V1 deadline: 24 August 2022
* RC1: 3 October 2022
* RC2: 23 October 2022
* RC3: 31 October 2022
* Release: 16 November 2022
Subtrees
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* next-net
* Ethdev reviews ongoing
* Some patches merged
* New drivers in this release
* Microsoft Azure Network Adatper (MANA) PMD
* There are several RDMA implementation now.
* Should we have RDMA bus driver?
* Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE)
* idpf (Infrastructure Data Path Function) PMD
* net/qdma PMD
* next-net-intel
* Patches waiting for pull
* next-net-mlx
* No update
* next-net-brcm
* No update
* next-net-mrvl
* Patches pushed and waiting for pull
* next-eventdev
* Patches pushed and waiting for pull
* next-virtio
* Issue in 22.11 branch causing deadlock in vHost
* next-crypto
* 30-35 patches merged and awaiting pull
* Review of crypto security and sessions rework patches
* Call for review comments from community because it
affects a lot of drivers
* Patches around BBDev
* ACC 100/200 patches
* FIPs validation patches need reviews acks
* Asym changes under review
* main
* Looking at EAL patches
* Windows Thread series has updates
* New arch type: LoongArch
* MLX5 new features coming around rte_flow
* CC Thomas for attention any patchsets that need early merge
LTS
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Waiting for test results. LTS release on August 29th.
* 21.11.2
* 20.11.6
* 19.11.13
Discussion needed on whether we will continue the 3 year LTS cycle that
was trialled for 19.11 to the 20.11 LTS cycle.
* Distros
* v20.11 in Debian 11
* Ubuntu 22.04 contains 21.11
Defects
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* Bugzilla links, 'Bugs', added for hosted projects
* https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/
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 Thursday at 9:30 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.
