[dpdk-dev] DPDK Release Status Meeting 19/11/2020

[Ferruh Yigit]

Meeting minutes of 19 November 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* -rc4 status
* Subtrees
* LTS
* OvS
* Opens

Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat


Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
   * -rc4 is released on      Friday, 13 November 2020
     * http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/4017285.oMJDOflQix@thomas/
   * -rc5:                    Friday, 20 November 2020
   * Release:                 Wednesday, 25 November 2020

* v21.02 proposal dates, please comment before next meeting:
   * Proposal/V1:    Sunday, 20 December 2020
   * -rc1:           Friday, 15 January 2021
   * Release:        Friday, 5 February 2021

   * Please send roadmaps, preferably before beginning of the release


-rc4 status
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* Ping (form Intel) sent the test repot
   * https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-November/193037.html
   * No new issue except testpmd failed with max-pkt-len param
     * Fix patch: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/84248/
       * Please review/test

* Microsoft found some issues and possible performance degradation
   * Will create Bugzilla issues for them soon


Subtrees
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* main
   * Some small fixes for blacklist/whitelist set
   * doc and example changes in the queue
   * cppchecks fixes
     * trivial fixes, can be postponed
   * Not much deprecation notice in the backlog
   * Can have -r5 tomorrow
   * SPSK build issue fixed
   * Arm compilation support from Juraj postponed to next release

* next-net
   * Pulled from sub-trees, some fixes merged
   * A few more fixes and deprecation notices in the queue

* next-crypto
   * One patch left, waiting for review
     * https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/83391/

* next-eventdev
   * There are a few patches in the backlog
   * Will send a pull request tomorrow

* next-virtio
   * A single fix in the queue, requires a new version

* next-net-intel
   * There are still some fixes in the backlog, under review

* next-net-mlx
   * Planning the finalize all fixes today/tomorrow

* next-net-mrvl
   * No more patch expected for the -rc

* next-net-brcm
   * no update


LTS
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* Next 18.11 release will be 18.11.11
   * Going fine, almost finished all patches
   * At this stage lots of patches does not apply

* Next 19.11 release will be 19.11.6
   * Most of the patches merged
   * Some patches are waiting authors to backport
   * There is a request for feature backport for PMD
     * There are concerns on backporting features


OvS
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* Validating with DPDK v20.11-rc4, so far no issues

* A patch is under development for meson build


Opens
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* No update on the CVE issues



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

If you wish to attend just send an email to
"John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>" for the invite.