Planning/2.9

Release Schedule

2016-12-20	Beginning of development phase
2017-02-28	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.
2017-03-072017-03-14	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2017-03-142017-03-21	Tag rc1
2017-03-212017-03-28	Tag rc2
2017-03-282017-04-04	Tag rc3
2017-04-042017-04-11	Tag rc4 if necessary, otherwise release
2017-04-112017-04-18	Release if rc4 was necessary

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.

Fixed in rc2

• SPARC host failure in tests/virtio-9p-test (using le*_to_cpus() on unaligned field in packed struct)
• bsd-user compile failure
• OSX graphics don't work (trying to call into cocoa from wrong thread)

Fixed in rc3

• SPARC host failures (not extending arguments to load/store helpers) -- patch on list
• aarch64 KVM doesn't work on kernel 4.10 or lower
• SPARC host failure in tests/bios-tables-test (unaligned field in packed struct)
• migration failure of usb storage on xhci under a PCI bridge; works in 2.8 (See patch from Gerd: xhci: flush dequeue pointer to endpoint context)
• test-qga fails if /sys/devices/ doesn't have slaves/ directory where expected

Not yet fixed in any rc

• NetBSD build failure because ivshmem-server uses shm_open but doesn't link -lrt
• OpenBSD fails make check ("-drive if=none,id=drive1,file=/dev/null,format=raw: Could not refresh total sector count: Operation not supported by device")
• record-and-replay is broken | see list
• Storage live migration is broken (guest devices don't allow writes to the image on the destination even while the migration is still running)

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.9 for full details.