Planning/2.6: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 08:31, 12 October 2016

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.

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 | Tag v2.6.0-rc3
 |-
-| 2016-04-27
+| <strike>2016-04-27</strike> 2016-05-02
 | Tag v2.6.0-rc4
 |-
-| <strike>2016-04-26</strike> 2016-05-03
+| 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)
+|-
+| <strike>2016-04-26</strike> <strike>2016-05-03</strike> 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
 |}
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 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.
-Also see [[Planning/2.6/Testing]].
 === Still unfixed in master ===
-* While committing snapshot qemu crashes with SIGABRT [https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1570134] (wants 'virtio: Register host notifier handler as external' patch)
+Nothing, hurrah!
-* nbd: Don't mishandle unaligned client requests
-* 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
 === Fixed in rc1 ===
@@ Line 57: / Line 68: @@
 * compilation failure when --enable-tcg-interpreter is used (Stefan Weil has patch posted)
-=== Will be fixed in rc3 ===
+=== Fixed in rc3 ===
 * Networking is broken on Windows hosts
@@ Line 69: / Line 80: @@
 * 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 [https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1570134] (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 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.