Planning/2.12

Release Schedule

2017-12-13	Beginning of development phase
2018-03-13	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.
2018-03-20	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2018-03-27	Tag rc1
2018-04-03 2018-04-04	Tag rc2
2018-04-10 2018-04-11	Tag rc3
2018-04-17	Tag rc4
2018-04-24	Release.
2018-07-30	Patch freeze for v2.12.1
2018-08-02	Tag v2.12.1

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 rc1

• macio IDE TRIM fixes: [1] and [2].

Fixed in rc3

• Crash with: ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -S -machine 40p -device i82374 (patch is available here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg06678.html )
• GTK WARNING and CRITICAL errors when closing QEMU window directly instead of using the "Quit" menu option (patch available at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg04315.html)

Fixed in rc4

• softfloat: failed to raise Invalid for float-to-int conversions of NaN and infinity
• softfloat: minnummag and maxnummag mishandled +Zero, -Zero
• linux-user aarch64 signal frame not quite right
• compile failure on MIPS hosts building aarch64 targets
• m68k: fix exception stack frame for 68000
• fix for handling dirty bitmaps in qcow2 files
• gtk message catalogs not installed if CONFIG_GTK=y
• softfloat: division of inf by 0 should not raise DivByZero
• linux-user aarch64 signal frame not fully checked for writability
• i386 FEAT_KVM_HINTS bits should not be automatically enabled
• softfloat scalbn increment not bounded

Issues that will not be fixed

• update po files (needed because of recent changes in ui/gtk.c)
• mux Ctrl-a b doesn't send break
• the query-cpus-fast QMP command reports bogus arch data for all architectures except x86 and s390; applications should be careful to not rely on the bogus information

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.12 for full details.