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R<span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace;">elease status meeting minutes 2026-02-10</span></div>
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<b>=========================================</b></div>
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Agenda:</div>
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- Release Dates</div>
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- Subtrees</div>
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- Roadmaps</div>
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- LTS</div>
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- Defects</div>
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- Opens</div>
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Participants:</div>
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- ARM</div>
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- Intel</div>
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- Marvell</div>
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- Nvidia</div>
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- Red Hat</div>
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- Stephen Hemminger</div>
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Release Dates</div>
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The following are the proposed working dates for 26.03:</div>
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| Date | Milestone | Description |</div>
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| 5 January 2026 | RFC/v1 patches | Proposal deadline |</div>
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| 9 February 2026 | 26.03-rc1 | API freeze |</div>
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| 2 March 2026 | 26.03-rc2 | PMD features freeze |</div>
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| 9 March 2026 | 26.03-rc3 | Builtin apps features freeze |</div>
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| 16 March 2026 | 26.03-rc4 | Documentation ready |</div>
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| 19 March 2026 | 26.03.0 | Release |</div>
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See https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/</div>
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Subtrees</div>
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- next-net</div>
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- 39 patches ready for main.</div>
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- 44 patches in review.</div>
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- next-net-intel</div>
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- Pulled to main.</div>
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- 74 patches in backlog.</div>
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- next-net-mlx</div>
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- Tree pulled.</div>
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- 10 patches in backlog.</div>
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- next-broadcom</div>
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- Tree pulled.</div>
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- next-net-mvl</div>
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- Merge in progress.</div>
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- 20 more patches in backlog.</div>
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- next-eventdev</div>
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- No patches.</div>
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- next-baseband</div>
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- No patches.</div>
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- next-virtio</div>
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- Tree pulled.</div>
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- 2 fixes in queue.</div>
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- next-crypto</div>
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- Some patches applied.</div>
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- ~ 70 patches in backlog.</div>
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- Zuc and Snow 5G algorithms introduced.</div>
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- next-dts</div>
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- Some patches merged for main.</div>
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- Some other patches under review.</div>
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- main</div>
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- Merging for RC1.</div>
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- Looking at string overflow/truncation patchset.</div>
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- Some improvements on checksum under review.</div>
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- Unit tests patches merged. Some random failures.</div>
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- Mbuf and Mpool patches.</div>
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- Will try release RC1 by this Friday.</div>
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DPDK Summit CFP is open: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-summit/program/cfp/</div>
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Other</div>
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- None.</div>
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LTS</div>
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See also: https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#stable</div>
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LTS versions ongoing/released:</div>
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- 24.11.4 - Released.</div>
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- 23.11.6 - Released.</div>
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- 22.11.11 - Released.</div>
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Older releases:</div>
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- 20.11.10 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.</div>
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- 19.11.14 - Will only be updated with CVE and critical fixes.</div>
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- Distros</div>
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- Debian 13 contains DPDK v24.11</div>
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- Ubuntu 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11</div>
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- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11</div>
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- RHEL 9 contains DPDK 24.11</div>
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Defects</div>
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- Bugzilla links, 'Bugs', added for hosted projects</div>
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- https://www.dpdk.org/hosted-projects/</div>
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DPDK Release Status Meetings</div>
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The DPDK Release Status Meeting is intended for DPDK Committers to discuss the</div>
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status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to track</div>
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progress or milestone dates.</div>
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The meeting occurs on every Tuesday at 14:30 DST over Jitsi on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK</div>
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You don't need an invite to join the meeting but if you want a calendar reminder just</div>
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send an email to "John McNamara <<u>john.mcnamara@intel.com</u>>" for the invite.</div>
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