Planning/2.5

Release Schedule

2015-08-11	Beginning of development phase
2015-10-15	Soft feature freeze. All features should have patches on the list by this date; major features should have initial code committed.
2015-11-12 2015-11-13	Hard feature freeze. Tag -rc0, only bug fixes committed after this point
2015-11-19 2015-11-20	Tag v2.5.0-rc1
2015-11-26	Tag v2.5.0-rc2
2015-12-03 2015-12-07	Tag v2.5.0-rc3
2015-12-11	Tag v2.5.0-rc4
2015-12-10 2015-12-16	Tag v2.5.0

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.

Still unfixed

• xbzrle migration crash/corruption (see Fix xbzrle vs last_sent_block update)

Fixed in rc4

• crash on migration if virtio-9p device was hot-unplugged http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/553966/
• MAINTAINERS update for virtio-9p
• Update translation files with `make -C po update` and commit the result.

Fixed in rc3

• OSX cocoa UI: don't pass clicks to guest if window is in background
• a few S390 patches (targeting rc3)
• a a race condition in a vhost-user test that makes it fail in some setups, notably the Travis CI https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg06162.html

Fixed in rc0

• netmap.c compile failures
• Mac OS 9 compatibility improvements (upstream rework)
• fix Highbank model by adding board setup blob
• migration: fix analyze-migration.py script
• revert of VHOST_RESET_DEVICE change
• bugs in ARM gdbstub singlestep and breakpoint handling
• configure barfs if there's no c++ compiler (fortify-source test is assuming $cxx is defined)
• Zynq ADC controller
• migration doesn't work on OSX (migrate_init zeroes out the mutex)
• migration/ram.c 32-bit compile fixes

Also see Planning/2.5/Testing.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.5 for full details.