Planning/8.0

Release Schedule

2022-12-14	Beginning of development phase
2023-03-07	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.
2023-03-14	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2023-03-21	Tag rc1
2023-03-28	Tag rc2
2023-04-04 2023-04-05	Tag rc3
2023-04-11 2023-04-13	Release; or tag rc4 if needed tag rc4
2023-04-18 2023-04-19	Release
2023-05-27	Freeze for 8.0.1 stable release
2023-05-29	Tag v8.0.1
2023-05-30	Tag v8.0.2 (a bugfix for 8.0.1 release)
2023-07-06	Freeze for 8.0.3 stable release
2023-07-08	Tag v8.0.3
2023-08-05	Freeze for 8.0.4 stable release
2023-08-07	Tag v8.0.4
2023-09-19	Freeze for 8.0.5 stable release
2023-09-21	Tag v8.0.5 (no more 8.0.x releases are planned at this time)

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/8

Other release info

Feel free to add non-bug information that is pertinent to the release here.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/8.0 for full details.