Planning/8.2

Release Schedule

2023-08-22	Beginning of development phase
2023-11-07	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.
2023-11-14	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2023-11-21	Tag rc1
2023-11-28	Tag rc2
2023-12-05	Tag rc3
2023-12-10	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2023-12-19	Release if we needed an rc4
2024-01-27	Freeze for 8.2.1 stable/bugfix release
2024-01-29	Tag v8.2.1
2024-03-02	Freeze for 8.2.2 stable/bugfix release
2024-03-04	Tag v8.2.2
2024-04-20	Freeze for 8.2.3 stable/bugfix release
2024-04-22	Tag v8.2.3
2024-05-12	Tag v8.2.4
2024-06-07	Freeze for 8.2.5 stable/bugfix release
2024-06-09	Tag v8.2.5
2024-07-14	Freeze for 8.2.6 stable/bugfix release
2024-07-16	Tag v8.2.6
2024-09-16	Freeze for 8.2.7 stable/bugfix release
2024-09-18	Tag v8.2.7
2024-11-18	Freeze for 8.2.8 stable/bugfix release
2024-11-20	Tag v8.2.8

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/10

In v8.2.3 there's a build bug on riscv platform, causing the following error:

error: macro "KVM_RISCV_GET_TIMER" requires 4 arguments, but only 3 given

This is due to incomplete backport of a fix, - previous required changes in this area are missing. The following 3 changes are also needed (all are included in v8.2.4 stable release):

• bbdcc89678da target/riscv/kvm: change KVM_REG_RISCV_FP_F to u32
• 125b95d79e74 target/riscv/kvm: change KVM_REG_RISCV_FP_D to u64
• cbae1080988e target/riscv/kvm: change timer regs size to u64

Other release info

Currently queued patches for the next stable/bugfix release, if any:

https://gitlab.com/mjt0k/qemu/-/commits/staging-8.2/

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commits/staging-8.2/

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/8.2 for full details.