Planning/8.1

Release Schedule

2023-04-20	Beginning of development phase
2023-07-11	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.
2023-07-18	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2023-07-25	Tag rc1
2023-08-01	Tag rc2
2023-08-08	Tag rc3
2023-08-15	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2023-08-22	Release if we needed an rc4
2023-09-19	Freeze for 8.1.1 stable/bugfix release
2023-09-21	Tag v8.1.1. Please note: v8.1.1 is being released with known, still unfixed in qemu/master, bugs, also existing in v8.1.0
2023-10-14	Freeze for 8.1.2 stable/bugfix release
2023-10-16	Tag v8.1.2
2023-11-19	Freeze for 8.1.3 stable/bugfix release
2023-11-21	Tag v8.1.3
2023-12-20	Freeze for 8.1.4 stable/bugfix release
2023-12-22	Tag v8.1.4

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/9

Other release info

Currently queued patches for the next stable/bugfix release, if any:

https://gitlab.com/mjt0k/qemu/-/commits/staging-8.1/

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commits/staging-8.1/

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/8.1 for full details.