Planning/2.7: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:19, 16 August 2016

Release Schedule

2016-05-12	Beginning of development phase
2016-06-28	Soft feature freeze. All features should have patches on the list by this date; major features should have initial code committed.
~~2016-07-19~~ 2016-07-22	Hard feature freeze. Tag -rc0, only bug fixes committed after this point
~~2016-07-26~~ 2016-07-29	Tag v2.7.0-rc1
~~2016-08-02~~ 2016-08-08	Tag v2.7.0-rc2
2016-08-15	Tag v2.7.0-rc3
2016-08-19	Tag v2.7.0

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.

Also see Planning/2.7/Testing.

Still unfixed in master

Doesn't build on x86 OpenBSD or NetBSD. (Patch on list, should be fixed for rc3.)
Slirp code doesn't build on OpenBSD (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1613133)
Broken build of virtio-gpu if 'log' trace backend is not enabled (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01252.html)
Regression broken TLS support with chardevs (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02824.html)

Will be fixed in rc2

wxx: Truncate files used for character devices

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.7 for full details.

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 * Doesn't build on x86 OpenBSD or NetBSD. ([http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/656877/ Patch on list], should be fixed for rc3.)
+* Slirp code doesn't build on OpenBSD (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1613133)
 * Broken build of virtio-gpu if 'log' trace backend is not enabled (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg01252.html)
 * Regression broken TLS support with chardevs (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02824.html)