DPDK Release Status Meeting 2026-06-02

[Mcnamara, John]

Release status meeting minutes 2026-06-02
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Agenda:
- Release Dates
- Subtrees
- Roadmaps
- LTS
- Defects
- Opens

Participants:
- Broadcom
- Intel
- Marvell
- Nvidia
- Red Hat
- Stephen Hemminger

Release Dates
-------------

The following are the proposed working dates for 27.03:

| Date            | Milestone        | Description                     |
|-----------------|------------------|---------------------------------|
| 30 April 2026   | RFC/v1 patches   | Proposal deadline               |
| 04 June 2026    | 26.07-rc1        | API freeze                      |
| 25 June 2026    | 26.07-rc2        | PMD features freeze             |
| 02 July 2026    | 26.07-rc3        | Builtin apps features freeze    |
| 9 July 2026     | 26.07-rc4        | Documentation ready             |
| 16 July 2026    | 26.07.0          | Release                         |


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


Subtrees
--------

- next-net
  - Has been pulled to main.
  - 2 patches pending for merge.
  - 38 patches in review/waiting.

- next-net-intel
  - Has been pulled to main.
  - 47 patches in backlog.

- next-net-mlx
  - No update.

- next-broadcom
  - Internal testing ongoing.
  - Patches will be pushed this week.
  - ~20 patches in backlog.

- next-net-mvl
  - No update.

- next-eventdev
  - No update.

- next-baseband
  - No update.

- next-virtio
  - Series for ASID under review, targeting RC1

- next-crypto
  - Applying patches for RC1.

- next-dts
  - No update.

- main
  - New version of BUS drivers refactoring series. There are some conflicts
    so will need another version.
  - Looking at fixes in EAL. Large patchset on atomic deprecations.
  - Series on MAC addresses targeting RC2.
  - There are currently some strange failures in the CI that are under
    investigation.
  - Risc-V patches.
  - RC1 deadline 4 June 2026


Other
-----
  - None.

LTS
---

See also: https://core.dpdk.org/roadmap/#stable

LTS versions ongoing/released:

- 25.11.1 - Released + regression fix on 25.11.2.
- 24.11.5 - Released + regression fix on 24.11.6.
- 23.11.7 - Released.

Older releases:
- 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 13 contains DPDK v24.11
  - Ubuntu 25.04 contains DPDK v24.11
  - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS contains DPDK v23.11
  - RHEL 9 contains DPDK 24.11

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 main 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.mcnamara at intel.com>" for the invite.


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