Planning/9.0

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Release Schedule

2023-12-20 Beginning of development phase
2024-03-12 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.
2024-03-19 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2024-03-26 Tag rc1
2024-04-02 Tag rc2
2024-04-09 2024-04-10 Tag rc3
2024-04-16 Release; or tag rc4 if needed Tag rc4
2024-04-23 Release if we needed an rc4
2024-06-07 Freeze for 9.0.1 stable/bugfix release
2024-06-09 Tag v9.0.1
2024-07-14 Freeze for 9.0.2 stable/bugfix release
2024-07-16 Tag v9.0.2
2024-09-16 Freeze for 9.0.3 stable/bugfix release
2024-09-18 Tag v9.0.3
2024-11-18 Freeze for 9.0.4 stable/bugfix release
2024-11-20 Tag v9.0.4. This is planned to be the last release in 9.0.x series.

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/11

Other release info

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

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/9.0 for full details.