Planning/11.0

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Release Schedule

2025-12-24 Beginning of development phase
2026-03-10 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.
2026-03-17 2026-03-18 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2026-03-24 Tag rc1
2023-03-312026-04-10 Tag rc2
2026-04-072026-04-09 Tag rc3
2026-04-14 Tag rc4
2026-04-21 Release
2026-05-22 Freeze for v11.0.1 stable/bugfix release
2026-05-24 2026-05-25 Tag v11.0.1
2026-06-23 Freeze for v11.0.2 stable/bugfix release
2026-06-25 Tag v11.0.2
2026-07-22 Freeze for v11.0.3 stable/bugfix release
2026-07-24 Tag v11.0.3
2026-08-24 Freeze for v11.0.4 stable/bugfix release
2026-08-26 Tag v11.0.4

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/18

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/11.0 for full details.