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| [[Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze|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. | | [[Planning/SoftFeatureFreeze|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. | ||
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| 2017-03-07 | | <strike>2017-03-07</strike>2017-03-14 | ||
| [[Planning/HardFeatureFreeze|Hard feature freeze]]. Tag rc0 | | [[Planning/HardFeatureFreeze|Hard feature freeze]]. Tag rc0 | ||
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| 2017-03-14 | | <strike>2017-03-14</strike>2017-03-21 | ||
| Tag rc1 | | Tag rc1 | ||
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| 2017-03-21 | | <strike>2017-03-21</strike>2017-03-28 | ||
| Tag rc2 | | Tag rc2 | ||
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| 2017-03-28 | | <strike>2017-03-28</strike>2017-04-04 | ||
| Tag rc3 | | Tag rc3 | ||
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| 2017-04-04 | | <strike>2017-04-04</strike>2017-04-11 | ||
| Tag rc4 | | Tag rc4 | ||
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| | | 2017-04-18 | ||
| Release | | Tag rc5 | ||
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| <strike>2017-04-11</strike> <strike>2017-04-18</strike> 2017-04-20 | |||
| Release | |||
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| 2017-09-04 | |||
| Freeze for v2.9.1 | |||
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| 2017-09-07 | |||
| Tag v2.9.1 | |||
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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. | 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. | ||
=== rc0 === | === Fixed in rc0 === | ||
=== Fixed in rc1 === | |||
=== Fixed in rc2 === | |||
* SPARC host failure in tests/virtio-9p-test (using le*_to_cpus() on unaligned field in packed struct) | |||
* bsd-user compile failure | |||
* OSX graphics don't work (trying to call into cocoa from wrong thread) | |||
* Deadlocks in Win32 condition variables | |||
=== Fixed in rc3 === | |||
* SPARC host failures (not extending arguments to load/store helpers) -- patch on list | |||
* aarch64 KVM doesn't work on kernel 4.10 or lower | |||
* SPARC host failure in tests/bios-tables-test (unaligned field in packed struct) | |||
* migration failure of usb storage on xhci under a PCI bridge; works in 2.8 (See patch from Gerd: xhci: flush dequeue pointer to endpoint context) | |||
* test-qga fails if /sys/devices/ doesn't have slaves/ directory where expected | |||
* -serial stdio output may get stuck due to glib main loop signaling issue | |||
=== Fixed in rc4 === | |||
* record-and-replay is broken (patches on list: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg00661.html) | |||
* Storage live migration is broken (guest devices don't allow writes to the image on the destination even while the migration is still running) | |||
* snapshot_blkdev is broken when using iothreads | |||
=== Not yet fixed in any rc === | |||
=== Issues that will not be fixed === | === Issues that will not be fixed === | ||
* NetBSD build failure because ivshmem-server uses shm_open but doesn't link -lrt | |||
* OpenBSD fails make check ("-drive if=none,id=drive1,file=/dev/null,format=raw: Could not refresh total sector count: Operation not supported by device") | |||
== Targeted Features == | == Targeted Features == | ||
See the [[ChangeLog/2.9]] for full details. | See the [[ChangeLog/2.9]] for full details. | ||
Latest revision as of 00:07, 29 August 2017
Release Schedule
| 2016-12-20 | Beginning of development phase |
| 2017-02-28 | 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. |
| Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 | |
| Tag rc1 | |
| Tag rc2 | |
| Tag rc3 | |
| Tag rc4 | |
| 2017-04-18 | Tag rc5 |
| Release | |
| 2017-09-04 | Freeze for v2.9.1 |
| 2017-09-07 | Tag v2.9.1 |
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.
Fixed in rc0
Fixed in rc1
Fixed in rc2
- SPARC host failure in tests/virtio-9p-test (using le*_to_cpus() on unaligned field in packed struct)
- bsd-user compile failure
- OSX graphics don't work (trying to call into cocoa from wrong thread)
- Deadlocks in Win32 condition variables
Fixed in rc3
- SPARC host failures (not extending arguments to load/store helpers) -- patch on list
- aarch64 KVM doesn't work on kernel 4.10 or lower
- SPARC host failure in tests/bios-tables-test (unaligned field in packed struct)
- migration failure of usb storage on xhci under a PCI bridge; works in 2.8 (See patch from Gerd: xhci: flush dequeue pointer to endpoint context)
- test-qga fails if /sys/devices/ doesn't have slaves/ directory where expected
- -serial stdio output may get stuck due to glib main loop signaling issue
Fixed in rc4
- record-and-replay is broken (patches on list: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg00661.html)
- Storage live migration is broken (guest devices don't allow writes to the image on the destination even while the migration is still running)
- snapshot_blkdev is broken when using iothreads
Not yet fixed in any rc
Issues that will not be fixed
- NetBSD build failure because ivshmem-server uses shm_open but doesn't link -lrt
- OpenBSD fails make check ("-drive if=none,id=drive1,file=/dev/null,format=raw: Could not refresh total sector count: Operation not supported by device")
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/2.9 for full details.