Planning/8.2

Release Schedule

2023-08-22	Beginning of development phase
2023-11-07	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.
2023-11-14	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2023-11-21	Tag rc1
2023-11-28	Tag rc2
2023-12-05	Tag rc3
2023-12-12	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2023-12-19	Release if we needed an rc4
2024-01-27	Freeze for 8.2.1 stable/bugfix release
2024-01-29	Tag v8.2.1

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/10

Currently queued patches for the next stable:

https://gitlab.com/mjt0k/qemu/-/commits/staging-8.2/

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commits/staging-8.2/

Other release info

Feel free to add non-bug information that is pertinent to the release here.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/8.2 for full details.