Planning/2.6

Release Schedule

2015-12-17	Beginning of development phase
2016-03-01	Soft feature freeze. All features should have patches on the list by this date; major features should have initial code committed.
2016-03-29 2016-03-30	Hard feature freeze. Tag -rc0, only bug fixes committed after this point
2016-04-05	Tag v2.6.0-rc1
2016-04-12	Tag v2.6.0-rc2
2016-04-19	Tag v2.6.0-rc3
2016-04-26	Tag v2.6.0

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.

Also see Planning/2.6/Testing.

Still unfixed in master

• pflash block/io.c bdrv_co_do_pwritev during migrate (typically EFI setup)
• compilation failure on 3.20 gtk (fedora 24) - deprecated functions
• Networking is broken on Windows hosts
• NBD features added in 2.6 don't quite follow protocol [1] [2]
• Postcopy broken on 4.5 or newer kernels if THP enabled

Will be fixed in rc1

• Compile failures if libnfs is enabled
• net/netmap.c broken on FreeBSD [3]
• don't use 8-byte atomic access on 32-bit platforms (fixes freebsd, ppc32, etc)
• ensure chardev socket backends are in non-blocking mode [4]
• cannot connect resolve client hostnames on FreeBSD [5] (broken since 2.4.0 by commit 3de3d698d942d1116152417f882c897b26b44e41)

Will be fixed in rc2

• add i82801b11 missing migration data
• tests/bios-tables-test: fix assert (make check will fail for newer iasl without it)
• reentrancy problems for dataplane/aio (fixed in pull 8227e2d16705b8c94df93f465d4e1659c28c69ce)
• compilation failure when --enable-tcg-interpreter is used (Stefan Weil has patch posted)

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.6 for full details.