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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: DPDK Long Term Support
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 22:16:55 +0800
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 03:44:47PM +0200, Nirmoy Das wrote:
> 
> > LTS Version
> > ------------
> > 
> > The proposed initial LTS version will be DPDK 16.07. The next versions, based
> > on a 2 year cycle, will be DPDK 18.08, 20.08, etc.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can see 16.07's release due date is 18th July. Is it possible to know
> the timeline for RC versions of dpdk-16.07 ? This might be helpful for
> SUSE to decide the supported product(SLE12 SP*/Leap) for dpdk-lts.

You can get it from http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap:

    16.07
    Proposal deadline: May 8
    Integration deadline: June 16
    Release: July 18

In another word, we're gona have 1st RC release in less then 2 weeks.

	--yliu