DPDK Release Status Meeting 22/07/2021

Release Dates
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* v21.08

  - Proposal/V1:    Wednesday,  2 June (completed)
  - rc1:            Saturday,  10 July (completed)
  - rc2:            Friday,    23 July
  - rc3:            Thursday,  29 July
  - rc4:            Wednesday,  4 August
  - Release:        Friday,     6 August

Subtrees
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* next-net
- Bug with libatomic in clang, fixed today.

* next-crypto
- Pulled yesterday.
- Only deprecation notices left for this release.
- ABI check on FreeBSD: fixed today.

* next-eventdev
- Few patches for -rc3.

* next-virtio
- Pulled yesterday.
- One more series to look at (was rejected later).
- Change on async experimental code - candidate for -rc3

* next-net-brcm
- No update.

* next-net-intel
- No update.

* next-net-mlx
- Integration in progress

* next-net-mrvl
- Few patches for -rc3.

LTS
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DPDK 19.11.9 released on Monday by Christian.

Call for help for 19.11.x to fix issues with new toolchains, kernels, etc.