DPDK Release Status Meeting 22/04/2021

Release status meeting minutes {Date}
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:Date: 22 April 2021
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.Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc1 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Opens

.Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Individual contributor(s)
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* Red Hat

Release Dates
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* v21.05 dates
- -rc1 is released on Wednesday, 21 April

    ** http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/4984397.K2Fab8RJsf@thomas/

- -rc2: Wednesday, 5 May
- Release: Friday, 14 May

* 1-5 May is Labor Day holiday in PRC.

rc1 status
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* -rc1 released yesterday, not enough testing done yet

* Initial Intel testing did not found any major or blocking issue

Subtrees
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* main
- mbuf eCPRI there is no enough review
** will miss this release
- ioat driver updates, postponed to -rc2
- There is Windows build issue, will fix it
- Will improve log registration
** Some work already done/merge, will try to add more in this release
- There is a patch that batch renamed some folders
** https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=99a2dd955fba
** Please be aware of the change, this will break some git blame output
- The indentation of meson files changed
** https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=6fc406593ac1
** Maintainers should be careful on this change

* next-net
- majority of the ethdev patches are merged
** the mutex update for the multi-process left, discussions going on ** testpmd multi-process patch not merged, may be postponed to next release
- driver/testpmd patches and fixes for -rc2

* next-crypto
- Ciara's patch can waiting for new version
- Two PMDs for -rc2
** mlx5 crypto PMD
** NXP baseband PMD

* next-eventdev
- Patches merged for -rc1, dlb and CNXK eventdev driver for -rc2
- For dlb2, waiting for techboard decision on rename

* next-virtio
- Remaining patches will be considered for -rc2

* next-net-brcm
- Majority of the patches made the -rc1, not much for -rc2

* next-net-intel
- A base code updated expected for -rc2
- There are more fixes and driver updated in the backlog

* next-net-mlx
- All planned features are merged for -rc1
- There will be some more features for -rc2
** Some are already in the mail list

* next-net-mrvl
- CNXK net driver will be merged on -rc2

LTS
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* v19.11.8 is released
- http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/

* v20.11 (next version is v20.11.2)
- Not much update at this stage

Opens
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* There is a better to way to include the code into documentation
- https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/
- We should use this method instead of copy/paste code into doc
- It would be nice to have a generic cleanup on existing documentation

* There are some new Bugzilla defect for build issues
- Kevin submitted Bugzilla defects for it
- Reproduces on Fedora 34 (which will be released soon)
- Wide range of compiler versions are supported ** Because large variety of OS versions are supported

* There is a new security team member, working on security issues can continue after he ramped up

.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 Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK

If you wish to attend just send an email to "John McNamara <[email protected]>" for the invite.
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