Release status meeting minutes 2023-02-23
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens
Participants:
* AMD
* ARM
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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The following are the proposed current dates for 23.03:
* V1: 25 December 2022
* RC1: 20 February 2023
* RC2: 8 March 2023
* RC3: 15 March 2023
* Release: 24 March 2023
Subtrees
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* next-net
* Majority of rte_flow and ethdev patches merged.
* Some additional PMD and driver patches for RC2.
* next-net-intel
* About 60 patches has been merged.
* A few fixes still under review and targeted for RC2
* next-net-mlx
* Patches merged to RC1
* ~30 patches for RC2.
* next-net-mvl
* Mainly merged. Just a few patches remaining.
* next-eventdev
* Merged.
* next-baseband
* PR prepared.
* 1 new series that needs revision from Intel.
* next-virtio
* No patches currently ready for RC2.
* next-crypto
* Patchset on FIPs validation needs review.
* Some old QAT patches from Arek that need ack.
* Compressdev patch requires reviews
* PDCP library may still be in RC2 but may move to next release.
* main
* Patches for MLdev to be merged.
* Telemetry patches - not all merged (some need discussion)
* Patch for "vfio: do not coalesce DMA mapping" needs review/discussion:
*
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230104051936.2456411-1-nipun.gu...@amd.com/
* Proposed RC2 date: 8 March
* Proposed RC3 date: 15 March
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): 20 February 2023
* PMD features freeze (-rc2): 81 March 2023
* Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 15 March 2023
* Release: 24 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:
Backports in progress and pull requests have been sent.
* 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
You don't need an invite to join the meeting but if you want a calendar
reminder just
send an email to "John McNamara john.mcnam...@intel.com" for the invite.
