Planning/10.1

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Release Schedule

2025-04-22 Beginning of development phase
2025-07-15 Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point. All feature changes must be already in a sub maintainer tree and all pull requests from submaintainers must have been sent to the list by this date.
2025-07-22 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2025-07-29 Tag rc1
2025-08-05 Tag rc2
2025-08-12 Tag rc3
2025-08-19 Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2025-08-26 Release if we needed an rc4
2025-10-06 Freeze for v10.1.1 stable/bugfix release
2025-10-08 Tag v10.1.1
2025-10-18 Freeze for v10.1.2 stable/bugfix release
2025-10-20 Tag v10.1.2
2025-12-01 2025-12-03 Freeze for v10.1.3 stable/bugfix release
2025-12-03 2025-12-05 Tag v10.1.3

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/16

Other release info

Feel free to add non-bug information that is pertinent to the release here.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/10.1 for full details.