Planning/7.1

Release Schedule

2022-04-19	Beginning of development phase
2022-07-19	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.
2022-07-26	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2022-08-02	Tag rc1
2022-08-09	Tag rc2
2022-08-16	Tag rc3
2022-08-23	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2022-08-30	Release if we needed an rc4

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/6

Patches on list

• linux-user build broken with glib 2.36 due to sys/mount.h changes incompatible with linux/mount.h

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-08/msg00346.html

Not fixed yet

• [memory] section in config files is broken, see: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/87czfcof27.fsf@pond.sub.org/
• [x86] booting with OVMF is broken due to RNG seed feature: patches proposed but still under debate https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-08/msg01005.html
• virtio-scsi race that can cause crashes when starting the dataplane: Patch is reviewed, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-08/msg01298.html
• scsi-generic: Emulated block limits VPD page has incorrect max_transfer leading to I/O errors; patch proposed: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2022-08/msg00375.html

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/7.1 for full details.