Planning/5.1

Release Schedule

2020-04-29	Beginning of development phase
2020-07-07	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.
2020-07-14 2020-07-15	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2020-07-21	Tag rc1
2020-07-28	Tag rc2
2020-08-04	Tag rc3
2020-08-11	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2020-08-18	Release if we needed an rc4

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.

• x86_64 guests are not booting in HVF: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg04596.html
• QEMU crashes when running "make check-qtest-aarch64 SPEED=slow". Workaround is available: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg04993.html
• QEMU aborts when plugging a PCIe bridge on ppc64: "qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -device pcie-pci-bridge". Patch is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg03336.html
• QEMU aborts with: "qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -device pnv-psi-POWER8". Patch is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg02624.html
• tests/test-char fails on CentOS 7 - see https://patchew.org/logs/20200716150617.4027356-1-armbru@redhat.com/testing.docker-quick@centos7/?type=message for example

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/5.1 for full details.