Planning/11.1

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Release Schedule

2025-04-22 Beginning of development phase
2026-07-07 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.
2026-07-14 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2026-07-21 Tag rc1
2026-07-28 Tag rc2
2026-08-04 Tag rc3
2026-08-11 Release, or tag rc4 if needed
2026-08-18 Release, if we needed an rc4
2026-08-24 Freeze for v11.1.1 stable/bugfix release
2026-08-26 Tag v11.1.1

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/19

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/11.1 for full details.