Planning/6.1

Release Schedule

2021-04-30	Beginning of development phase
2021-07-13	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.
2021-07-20 2021-07-21	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2021-07-27	Tag rc1
2021-08-03 2021-08-04	Tag rc2
2021-08-10	Tag rc3
2021-08-17	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2021-08-24	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.

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/1

Fixed in rc1

• #484: 6.1 Regression: machine pflash parsing
• #488: 'spicevmc' is not a valid char driver name with --enable-modules

Fixed in rc4

• #524 : Giving -smp option a negative argument makes QEMU dump core

Patches on list

• #516: --enable-modules --enable-plugins build does not work on Mac
• [1]: -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=500G,reserve=off crashes QEMU due to wrong assertion

Not fixed yet

• "-M default_bus_bypass_iommu" not working for ARM virt machine

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/6.1 for full details.