Planning/2.7

Release Schedule

2016-05-12	Beginning of development phase
2016-06-28	Soft feature freeze. All features should have patches on the list by this date; major features should have initial code committed.
2016-07-19 2016-07-22	Hard feature freeze. Tag -rc0, only bug fixes committed after this point
2016-07-26 2016-07-29	Tag v2.7.0-rc1
2016-08-02 2016-08-08	Tag v2.7.0-rc2
2016-08-15 2016-08-16	Tag v2.7.0-rc3
2016-08-22	Tag v2.7.0-rc4
2016-08-192016-08-29	Tag v2.7.0

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/2.7/Testing.

Not yet fixed in master

• virtio balloon bug of some description??
• doesn't build on Windows with older glib versions
• 9pfs filename sanitization
• PPC regression on prep ?
• crash with gdb server, patch available

Will be fixed in rc5

• Compile failure in bsd-user
• virtio bugs with vq->inuse counts

Fixed in rc4

• commit 9c37146782e785 accidentally disabled a lot of the linux-user netlink support code, because the headers don't define IFLA_BR_* and IFLA_BRPORT_* as C preprocessor constants, so #ifdef IFLA_BRPORT_ID etc don't do what you might hope

• test-logging testcase leaves a lot of logfiles in /tmp/

Fixed in rc3

• Doesn't build on x86 OpenBSD or NetBSD. (Patch on list)
• Slirp code doesn't build on OpenBSD (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1613133)
• Broken build of virtio-gpu if 'log' trace backend is not enabled (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01252.html)
• Regression broken TLS support with chardevs (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02824.html)

Fixed in rc2

wxx: Truncate files used for character devices

Will not be fixed for 2.7

• trying to attach a vhost-user device causes a segfault -- this is not a regression (was present in 2.6), so we'll fix it in 2.8

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.7 for full details.