Planning/9.1

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Release Schedule

2023-04-23 Beginning of development phase
2024-07-23 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.
2024-07-30 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2024-08-06 Tag rc1
2024-08-13 Tag rc2
2024-08-20 Tag rc3
2024-08-27 Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2024-09-03 Release if we needed an rc4
2024-10-16 Freeze for v9.1.1 stable release
2024-10-18 Tag v9.1.1
2024-11-18 Freeze for v9.1.2 stable release
2024-10-20 Tag v9.1.2

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/13

There's an apparent regression in v9.1.1 with audio, see https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2639. Should be fixed in the v9.1.2 release, or by reverting commit 6d03242a7e47815ed56687ecd13f683d8da3f2fe.

Other release info

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

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/9.1 for full details.