Planning/2.6

Release Schedule

2015-12-17	Beginning of development phase
2016-03-01	Soft feature freeze. All features should have patches on the list by this date; major features should have initial code committed.
2016-03-29 2016-03-30	Hard feature freeze. Tag -rc0, only bug fixes committed after this point
2016-04-05	Tag v2.6.0-rc1
2016-04-12 2016-04-14	Tag v2.6.0-rc2
2016-04-19 2016-04-21	Tag v2.6.0-rc3
2016-04-27 2016-05-02	Tag v2.6.0-rc4
2016-05-09	Tag v2.6.0-rc5 (this rc was delayed to wait for CVE fixes which couldn't go out until the end of an embargo period)
2016-04-26 2016-05-03 2016-05-11	Tag v2.6.0
2016-08-12	Freeze for v2.6.1
2016-08-17	Tag v2.6.1
2016-09-26	Freeze for v2.6.2
2016-09-29	Tag v2.6.2

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.

Still unfixed in master

Nothing, hurrah!

Fixed in rc1

• Compile failures if libnfs is enabled
• net/netmap.c broken on FreeBSD [1]
• don't use 8-byte atomic access on 32-bit platforms (fixes freebsd, ppc32, etc)
• ensure chardev socket backends are in non-blocking mode [2]
• cannot connect resolve client hostnames on FreeBSD [3] (broken since 2.4.0 by commit 3de3d698d942d1116152417f882c897b26b44e41)

Fixed in rc2

• add i82801b11 missing migration data
• tests/bios-tables-test: fix assert (make check will fail for newer iasl without it)
• reentrancy problems for dataplane/aio (fixed in pull 8227e2d16705b8c94df93f465d4e1659c28c69ce)
• compilation failure when --enable-tcg-interpreter is used (Stefan Weil has patch posted)

Fixed in rc3

• Networking is broken on Windows hosts
• pflash block/io.c bdrv_co_do_pwritev during migrate (typically EFI setup)
• NBD features added in 2.6 don't quite follow protocol [4] [5]
• buffer overrun in cadence_uart
• cuda: fix off-by-one error in SET_TIME command [6]
• Update language files in po/. As there were changes in ui/gtk.c, the line numbers need an update.
• gluster data corruption after io errors
• fix pv-grub booting with xenfb [7]
• wrong r0 on kernel boot on raspi2/xilinx-zynq/highbank/midway
• TCG performance 15% regression due to assert()

Fixed in rc4

• nbd: Don't mishandle unaligned client requests
• performance regression since 2.4 on AArch64 due to not using transparent huge pages
• While committing snapshot qemu crashes with SIGABRT [8] (wants 'block: Fix assertion failure at mirror exit' series)

Fixed in rc5

• vga security fixes (CVE-2016-3710, CVE-2016-3712)

Not planned to be fixed for 2.6

• compilation failure on 3.20 gtk (fedora 24) - deprecated functions (not a failure for release tarballs, workaround for building from git tree is to use --disable-werror; we will fix this in 2.7)
• iscsi: cannot associate -drive driver=iscsi with -iscsi args to get authentication credentials when iSCSI IQN contains a ':' (which essentially all of them do). Needed to fix CVE-2015-5160 in libvirt https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg03387.html
• target-mips: there is an old bug which was detected and fixed too late, see http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/619962/. This bug also triggers a build failure with recent gcc.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.6 for full details.