Release status meeting minutes 2023-02-09
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
Participants:
* AMD
* Intel
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.03:
* V1: 25 December 2022
* RC1: 8 February 2023 - Moving to 16-17 February
* RC2: 1 March 2023
* RC3: 8 March 2023
* Release: 20 March 2023
Subtrees
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* next-net
* Merged some patches to next-net and rebased on latest main.
* From the remaining patches (~100 patches remaining if you drop very old
ones):
- 8 flow API patchset, 5 of them fully acked by Ori
- 4 ethdev set
- One of them sent today
- 2 of them direct-rearm and MAC occupy two entries, they are from
previous versions. Some concerns on these.
- Multiple testpmd and driver patches, will look at them after library ones
- Have asked for changes for af_xdp CNI one, it is missing some
documentation and needs some minor code changes
- It will be great if we can have more testpmd reviews
- New PMD probably won't go into -rc1
- Needs update from next-intel maintainer
* next-net-intel
* No update.
* next-net-mlx
* No update.
* next-net-mvl
* No update.
* next-eventdev
* Patches merged and awaiting pull
* next-baseband
* Two series: One reviewed and one needs revision
* next-virtio
* Pull request sent and merged.
* Quite a few patches ready for virtio.
* next-crypto
* No update.
* main
* 3 patches to merge
* Windows Thread API
* Robin Telemetry patches
- EAL parts are ready
- Some more need on testpmd
* Not enough consensus/discussion on lock annotations
* The following needs review:
* enhance NUMA affinity heuristic
*
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230201122048.1283392-1-kaisenx....@intel.com/
* Proposal to move RC1 to February 16-17
Proposed Schedule for 2023
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See also http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates
23.03
* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 25 December 2022
* API freeze (-rc1): 8 February 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 1 March 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 8 March 2023
* Release: 20 March 2023
23.07
* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 15 April 2023
* API freeze (-rc1): 31 May 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 21 June 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 28 June 2023
* Release: 12 July 2023
23.11
* Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 12 August 2023
* API freeze (-rc1): 29 September 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 20 October 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 27 October 2023
* Release: 15 November 2023
Other
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* TBA
LTS
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Next releases will be:
* 22.11.1
* 21.11.4
* 20.11.8
* 19.11.15?
* CVE and critical fixes only.
* 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/
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 Thursday at 9:30 UTC over Jitsi on
https://meet.jit.si/DPDK
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