Planning/6.1: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 23:59, 14 December 2021

Release Schedule

2021-04-30	Beginning of development phase
2021-07-13	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.
~~2021-07-20~~ 2021-07-21	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2021-07-27	Tag rc1
~~2021-08-03~~ 2021-08-04	Tag rc2
2021-08-10	Tag rc3
2021-08-17	~~Release; or~~ tag rc4 if needed
2021-08-24	Release ~~if we needed an rc4~~
2021-12-21	Freeze for v6.1.1 stable release
2021-12-23	Tag v6.1.1

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.

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/1

Fixed in rc1

#484: 6.1 Regression: machine pflash parsing
#488: 'spicevmc' is not a valid char driver name with --enable-modules

Fixed in rc4

#524 : Giving -smp option a negative argument makes QEMU dump core
[1]: -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=500G,reserve=off crashes QEMU due to wrong assertion

Patches on list

Not fixed yet

Will not be fixed in 6.1

#516: --enable-modules --enable-plugins build does not work on Mac
"-M default_bus_bypass_iommu" not working for ARM virt machine

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/6.1 for full details.

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 == Release Schedule ==
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 | Beginning of development phase
 |-
-| 2021-xx-xx
+| 2021-07-13
 | [[Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze|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.
 |-
-| 2021-xx-xx
+| <strike>2021-07-20</strike> 2021-07-21
 | [[Planning/HardFeatureFreeze|Hard feature freeze]].  Tag rc0
 |-
-| 2021-xx-xx
+| 2021-07-27
 | Tag rc1
 |-
-| 2021-xx-xx
+| <strike>2021-08-03</strike> 2021-08-04
 | Tag rc2
 |-
-| 2021-xx-xx
+| 2021-08-10
 | Tag rc3
 |-
-| 2021-xx-xx
+| 2021-08-17
-| Release; or tag rc4 if needed
+| <strike>Release; or</strike> tag rc4 if needed
+|-
+| 2021-08-24
+| Release <strike>if we needed an rc4</strike>
+|-
+| 2021-12-21
+| Freeze for v6.1.1 stable release
 |-
-| 2021-xx-xx
+| 2021-12-23
-| Release if we needed an rc4
+| Tag v6.1.1
 |}
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 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.
+https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/1
+=== Fixed in rc1 ===
+* [https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/484 #484]: 6.1 Regression: machine pflash parsing
+* [https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/488 #488]: 'spicevmc' is not a valid char driver name with --enable-modules
+=== Fixed in rc4 ===
+* [https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/524 #524] : Giving -smp option a negative argument makes QEMU dump core
+* [https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210805092350.31195-1-david@redhat.com]: -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=500G,reserve=off crashes QEMU due to wrong assertion
+=== Patches on list ===
 === Not fixed yet ===
+=== Will not be fixed in 6.1 ===
-=== Will not be fixed in 6.1 ===
+* [https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/516#note_647955438 #516]: --enable-modules --enable-plugins build does not work on Mac
+* "-M default_bus_bypass_iommu" not working for ARM virt machine
 == Targeted Features ==
 See the [[ChangeLog/6.1]] for full details.