Planning/3.1

Release Schedule

2018-08-14	Beginning of development phase
2018-10-30	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.
2018-11-06	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2018-11-13	Tag rc1
2018-11-20	Tag rc2
2018-11-27	Tag rc3
2018-12-04	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2018-12-11	Release, if we needed an rc4

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 rc1

• QEMU aborts with: aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -device ramfb

Fixed in rc2

• QEMU crashes with: qemu-system-aarch64 -M n800 (without any additional parameters) - this used to work better with v3.0
• We are missing the -3.1 versioned machine types for the PC machines. Patch on the list: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg03904.html

Fixed in rc3

• QEMU currently can't be compiled with "--disable-replication"
• QEMU crashes at startup on older AMD systems with: error: failed to set MSR 0x10a to 0x0
• Source QEMU crashes during migration when format and protocol block nodes were created separately (typical -blockdev setup). Fix is on the list: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2018-11/msg00759.html
• QEMU crashes with virtio-scsi on IO error (lp 1804323)

Not yet fixed in any rc

• i2c: Move typedef of bitbang_i2c_interface to i2c.h (fixes compilation failure with clang 3.4)
• net: Fix possible OOB during queuing packets

Will not be fixed in this release

• QEMU does not work on the OSX "Mojave" release
• SMMUv3 ACPI integration ([PATCH for-3.1] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Fix SMMUv3 ACPI integration)
• Disassembly of nanomips code may give incorrect immediate values on big-endian host systems

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/3.1 for full details.