Projects/vpp/Release Plans/Release Plan 21.01

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Introduction

This page tracks release information for 21.01

Release Deliverables

See https://github.com/vpp-dev/vpp-release-notes for information.


Release Milestones

the milestones' start time will be at 12:00 UTC on the day of the milestone.


Milestone Date Deliverables
F0 2020-12-09 No high risk changes on master until RC1, but please flag them to the release manager
RC1 2020-12-16 (F0+7) Code complete, pull first release throttle branch, only bug fixes accepted on throttle train. After pull: main branch reopens for new feature / risky commits. First artifacts posted.
RC2 2021-01-13 (RC1+28) Second artifacts posted.
Release gate 2021-01-20 (RC2+7) Deadline for patches destined for the release
Tentative: Formal Release 2021-01-27 (RC2+14) If there were no critical patches since release gate, 21.01 release artifacts available. Else this becomes the new release gate, next candidate release +7 days after it.

NOTE: Dates chosen based on:

  • end-month release
  • milestone + days
  • release date after VPP community meeting, for discussion, go/no-go

Once we've pulled the 21.01 release throttle

We need to be disciplined with respect to bugfix commits. Here are a few common-sense suggestions:

  • All bug fixes must be double-committed to the release throttle, and 20.09 LTS, and the master branch
    • Commit first to the master branch, then "git cherry-pick" into release throttle
    • Manual merges may be required, depending on the degree of divergence between throttle and master
  • All bug fixes need to have a Jira ticket
    • Please put Jira IDs into the commit messages.
    • Please use the same Jira ID for commits into the stable branch and master.
NEED JIRA/CONFLUENCE IMPORT HERE

Expected Dependencies on Other Projects