Planning/1.3

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This release will span a single quarter (3 months). We will have a 2.5 week freeze of the master branch. During this time, only bug fixes will be committed.

Release Schedule

2012-09-05 Beginning of 1.3 development phase
2012-10-01 Midpoint in development cycle
2012-11-01 Soft feature freeze. Major features should have initial code committed by this date.
2012-11-19 Hard feature freeze. Tag v1.3.0-rc0, only bug fixes committed after this point
2012-11-26 Tag v1.3.0-rc1
2012-11-27 Test Day. Community effort to shake out v1.3.0-rc1 bugs.
2012-11-30 Tag v1.3.0-rc2
2012-12-03 Tag v1.3.0
2013-01-18 Freeze for v1.3.1
2013-01-25 Tag v1.3.1

Known issues

  • TCG interpreter is broken. Build fixes are available, but running qemu-system-i386 fails very early.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/1.3 for full details.