Latest revision as of 21:37, 4 August 2011

Release Schedule

2011-02-01	Begin of 0.15 development phase
2011-05-16	Soft feature freeze. Major features should have initial code committed by this date.
2011-06-15; Now 2011-07-22	Fork off stable-0.15, development of 0.16 begins. Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc0
2011-06-24; Now 2011-07-29	Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc1
2011-06-28; Now 2011-08-04	Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc2
2011-07-01; Now 2011-08-08	Tag qemu-0.15.0

Merged Features

(Names refer to people who took or are taking care of merging. More people not mentioned here might have contributed to the features).

PowerPC improvements
- e500 emulation (Alexander Graf)
- pSeries emulation (David Gibson)
s390x target support (Alexander Graf)
Virtualization
- Xen HVM domain support (Anthony Perard)
USB improvements
- Major emulation improvements
- Smart card emulation (Alon Levy)
New lm32 target (Michael Walle)
New unicore32 target (Guan Xuetao)
more?

Targeted Features

Virtualization
- Xenner support (Alexander Graf)
iothread (Paolo Bonzini, Jan Kiszka):
- ~~Win32 iothread support~~
- ~~high-precision rt_clock support~~
- ~~-icount support~~
- qemu-kvm conversion to iothread (Jan Kiszka, in progress)
- Mac OS X iothread support?
QAPI (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 0 (JSON improvements) (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 1 (code generator) (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 2 (complete conversion) (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 3 (session discovery, etc.) (Anthony Liguori)
SGA support (Glauber Costa)
USB improvements
- USB 2.0 support (Gerd Hoffmann)

Blocker Bugs

Warning: more nics requested than this machine supports

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 | Fork off stable-0.15, development of 0.16 begins. Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc0
 |-
-| 2011-06-24
+| 2011-06-24; Now 2011-07-29
 | Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc1
 |-
-| 2011-06-28
+| 2011-06-28; Now 2011-08-04
 | Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc2
 |-
-| 2011-07-01
+| 2011-07-01; Now 2011-08-08
 | Tag qemu-0.15.0
 |}
+= Merged Features =
+(Names refer to people who took or are taking care of merging.  More people not mentioned here might have contributed to the features).
+* PowerPC improvements
+** e500 emulation (Alexander Graf)
+** pSeries emulation (David Gibson)
+* s390x target support (Alexander Graf)
+* Virtualization
+** Xen HVM domain support (Anthony Perard)
+* USB improvements
+** Major emulation improvements
+** Smart card emulation (Alon Levy)
+* New lm32 target (Michael Walle)
+* New unicore32 target (Guan Xuetao)
+* more?
 = Targeted Features =
-* enabling iothread by default and possibly removal of non-iothread code:
+* Virtualization
+** Xenner support (Alexander Graf)
+* iothread (Paolo Bonzini, Jan Kiszka):
 **<del>Win32 iothread support</del>
 **<del>high-precision rt_clock support</del>
-**-icount support (Paolo Bonzini)
+**<del>-icount support</del>
-**qemu-kvm conversion to iothread? (Jan Kiszka)
+**qemu-kvm conversion to iothread (Jan Kiszka, in progress)
-* QAPI
+**Mac OS X iothread support?
+* QAPI (Anthony Liguori)
 ** QAPI Round 0 (JSON improvements) (Anthony Liguori)
 ** QAPI Round 1 (code generator) (Anthony Liguori)
 ** QAPI Round 2 (complete conversion) (Anthony Liguori)
 ** QAPI Round 3 (session discovery, etc.) (Anthony Liguori)
-* s390x target support (Alexander Graf)
+* SGA support (Glauber Costa)
-* Xenner support (Alexander Graf)
+* USB improvements
-* more?
+** USB 2.0 support (Gerd Hoffmann)
 = Blocker Bugs =
+* [http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/102604 Warning: more nics requested than this machine supports]