Planning/10.2
Release Schedule
| 2025-08-26 | Beginning of development phase |
| 2025-11-04 | 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. |
| 2025-11-11 | Hard feature freeze. |
| Tag rc1 | |
| Tag rc2 | |
| Tag rc3 | |
| Release; or tag rc4 if needed | |
| Release if we needed an rc4 | |
| 2026-02-10 | Freeze for v10.2.1 stable/bugfix release |
| 2026-02-12 | Tag v10.2.1 |
| 2026-03-15 | Freeze for v10.2.2 stable/bugfix release |
| 2026-03-17 | Tag v10.2.2 |
| 2026-05-22 | Freeze for v10.2.3 stable/bugfix release |
| Tag v10.2.3 | |
| 2026-06-23 | Freeze for v10.2.4 stable/bugfix release |
| 2026-06-25 | Tag v10.2.4. This is expected to be the last release in 10.2.x series. |
Known issues
Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/17
Other release info
Feel free to add non-bug information that is pertinent to the release here.
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/10.2 for full details.