Release status meeting minutes 2025-01-28
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* Roadmaps
* LTS
* Defects
* Opens

Participants:
* ARM
* Debian
* Intel
* Microsoft
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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The following are the proposed working dates for 25.03:

- Proposal deadline (RFC/v1 patches): 4 January 2025
- API freeze (-rc1): 7 February 2025
- PMD features freeze (-rc2): 28 February 2025
- Builtin applications features freeze (-rc3): 7 March 2025
- Release: 26 March 2025


https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/


Subtrees
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* next-net
  * No update.

* next-net-intel
  * Several patches merged on intel tree
  * Patch to deduplicate Intel driver code
  * ~ 15 patches on the backlog
  * Expecting a large patch to the igc/e1000

* next-net-mlx
  * Some patches merged.
  * No big changes in this release.

* next-net-mvl
  * Some patches merged.
  * 5 patches remaining.

* next-eventdev
  * Some patches merged.
  * 5 patches remaining.

* next-baseband
  * 1 series submitting. Awaiting review.

* next-virtio
  * 1 PR merged to fix regression.
  * Backlog of patches to review.

* next-crypto
  * ~30 patches on backlog
  * Series on ZTE driver
  * Issue with checkpatch

* next-dts
  * 34 patches in backlog. Around the same number merged.
  * Issue with Python 3.13

* main
  * The meeting has moved to a US friendly time slot on Tuesdays
  * Merging patches from Microsoft/Windows.
    - Packed attributes
    - Changes for MSVC
  * next-net merged
  * New driver for XSC from Yunsilicon
  * Some fixes have been merged to main to fix
    GCC 15 issues.


DPDK Summit 2025 will be in Prague in May:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/
https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-2025-prague/


LTS
---

Current LTS versions:

* 24.11.2
* 23.11.3
* 22.11.7

See https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#dates

* 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.
* 19.11.14 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.


* Distros
  * Debian 12 contains DPDK v22.11
  * Ubuntu 24.04 contains DPDK v23.11
  * Ubuntu 23.04 contains DPDK v22.11
  * RHEL 8/9 contains DPDK 23.11

Defects
-------

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



DPDK Release Status Meetings
----------------------------

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 Tuesday at 14:30 DST 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.


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