[dpdk-stable] 16.11 LTS release date?

[John Daley (johndale)]

OK, thanks for the update.
-john

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:56 PM
> To: John Daley (johndale) <johndale at cisco.com>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] 16.11 LTS release date?
> 
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 09:54:45PM +0000, John Daley (johndale) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > According to http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/stable.html, the
> current DPDK LTS release is 16.11. It wasn't clear to me when it would be
> released- is it sometime after release N+1? If so, N+1 has happened (17.02).
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I see the 16.11 branch, tag and tarball on dpdk-stable, but it wasn't labeled
> 'LTS' or announced or put on the dpdk.org download page.
> 
> dpdk.org update is (slowly) ongoing, sorry.
> 
> > Is there still testing or more patches to pull in,
> 
> Yes, it's now open for testing and review (something like should this commit
> be in a stable release, do we miss commits important?).
> 
> > or some other reason it's not announced? Sorry in advance if I missed
> something...
> 
> It's announced, both on the stable and dev mailing list:
> 
>     http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-February/057951.html
> 
> Quotes:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     Here is a list of patches targeted for 16.11.1 release. Please help
>     review and test. The planned date for the final release is 2nd, Mar.
>     Before that, please shout if anyone has objections with these patches
>     being applied, or if I missed some important fixes.
> 
>     These patches are located at branch 16.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>         http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
> 
> 	--yliu