Planning/10.2

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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 rc0
2025-11-18 2025-11-19 Tag rc1
2025-11-25 2025-12-02 Tag rc2
2025-12-02 2025-12-09 Tag rc3
2025-12-09 2025-12-16 Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2025-12-16 2025-12-23 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
2026-05-24 2026-05-25 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.