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== Release Schedule ==
== Release Schedule ==
To be determined; release will be mid-December.


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| 2020-12-08
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| Release if we needed an rc4
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* s390 is failing --without-default-devices build (https://travis-ci.com/gitlab/bonzini/qemu/jobs/426142849)
* s390 is failing --without-default-devices build (https://travis-ci.com/gitlab/bonzini/qemu/jobs/426142849)
** fixed in -rc1 via https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=77280d33bc9cfdbfb5b5d462259d644f5aefe9b3
** fixed in -rc1 via https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=77280d33bc9cfdbfb5b5d462259d644f5aefe9b3
* SD command ACMD41 misbehaves (https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1809291)
** fixed: 89c6700fe7e ("hw/sd/sdcard: Zero out function selection fields before being populated")


=== Not fixed yet ===
=== Fixed in rc2 ===


* SD command ACMD41 misbehaves (https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1809291)
* 2GB SD card announced as 1GB (https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg753834.html)
* pica61 -device isa-vga aborts (RAMBlock "vga.vram" already registered)
* set_pci_host_devaddr() fails parsing bus > 0x1f (https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg750121.html)
* microblaze s3adsp1800 stuck while booting (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02183.html)
* migration incompatibility of nec-usb-xhci ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg03128.html )
* ghes migration broken (looped vmstate https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-10/msg05187.html )
* ghes migration broken (looped vmstate https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-10/msg05187.html )
* graphic_hw_update() may crash with -nodefaults [https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=1cd8b9487025966123287e532636f231b46e8398 fixed]
* Xen support no longer built on arm64 [https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=0c3e41d40828f78f182c6eb7d54624ce7b0c49f8 fixed]
* Crash with "qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv -device macio-newworld" or "qemu-system-ppc64 -M mac99 -device macio-oldworld" (fix is available here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02630.html)
* Crash with "qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv -device macio-newworld" or "qemu-system-ppc64 -M mac99 -device macio-oldworld" (fix is available here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02630.html)
** fixed: 6bfa035ec31 ("macio: set user_creatable to false in macio_class_init")
* migration incompatibility of nec-usb-xhci ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg03128.html )
** fixed: 172bc8520db ("xhci: fix nec-usb-xhci properties")
* 2GB SD card announced as 1GB (https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg753834.html)
** fixed: 575094b786e ("hw/sd: Fix 2 GiB card CSD register values")
=== Fixed in rc3 ===
* Regression on POWER9 when using VSMT breaks guests (https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1900241)
** fixed: 6d24795ee7e3 ("Revert series "spapr/xive: Allocate vCPU IPIs from the vCPU contexts"")
* net: Use correct default-path macro for downscript
** fixed: 9925990d01a ("net: Use correct default-path macro for downscript")
* "make check" breakage because of recently added "local" tests for 9pfs
** fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg05794.html
*  qcow2: Regression that potentially causes corruption on write_zeroes with MAY_UNMAP
** fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2020-11/msg00674.html
* set_pci_host_devaddr() fails parsing bus > 0x1f
** fix: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg761406.html
* pci broken for s390x-on-x86 tcg guests, bisected to 28dc86a07299 ("s390x/pci: use a PCI Group structure") (https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20201117124349.2e1e2fe3.cohuck@redhat.com/)
** fix: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20201118104202.1301363-1-cohuck@redhat.com/
===Fixed in rc4 ===
* nsis: Fix build for 64 bit installer
* drop setuptools dependency requirement
* meson: use dependency() to find libjpeg
* "[PATCH] qxl: fix segfault" regression fix
* slirp: update to fix CVE-2020-29129 CVE-2020-29130
* ide: atapi: assert that the buffer pointer is in range
=== Will not be fixed in 5.2 ===
* microblaze s3adsp1800 stuck while booting (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02183.html) - not a recent regression, also happens with v5.0 already
* error condition in hash_tbl_search_fd_by_ifid (not a regression)
** fix: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg755553.html
* pica61 -device isa-vga aborts (RAMBlock "vga.vram" already registered) - not a recent regression, thus this should likely not block the release
* qga: Correct loop count in qmp_guest_get_vcpus (not a regression)
** proposed fix: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg761395.html
* HMP netdev_add doesn't let you reuse the ID of a deleted netdev, QMP netdev_add fails to reject duplicate ID (not a regression for 5.2 as error was already released in 5.0)
** proposed fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg06188.html
* ide/atapi: check io_buffer_index in ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end
** https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg760877.html -- patch is not the correct fix; in rc4 we put in an assert so that the worst-case is just "QEMU asserts" rather than reading off the end of the buffer
=== Not fixed yet ===


== Targeted Features ==
== Targeted Features ==


See the [[ChangeLog/5.2]] for full details.
See the [[ChangeLog/5.2]] for full details.

Latest revision as of 10:12, 3 December 2020

Release Schedule

2020-08-12 Beginning of development phase
2020-10-27 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.
2020-11-03 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2020-11-10 Tag rc1
2020-11-17 Tag rc2
2020-11-24 Tag rc3
2020-12-01 Release; or tag rc4 if needed Tag rc4
2020-12-08 Release if we needed an rc4 Release

Known issues

Please list all patch series or bugs which need to be fixed for the release here. That way I can be sure I don't miss any when I'm rolling release candidates.

Fixed in rc1

Fixed in rc2

Fixed in rc3

Fixed in rc4

  • nsis: Fix build for 64 bit installer
  • drop setuptools dependency requirement
  • meson: use dependency() to find libjpeg
  • "[PATCH] qxl: fix segfault" regression fix
  • slirp: update to fix CVE-2020-29129 CVE-2020-29130
  • ide: atapi: assert that the buffer pointer is in range

Will not be fixed in 5.2

Not fixed yet

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/5.2 for full details.

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