Planning/5.1

Release Schedule

2020-04-29	Beginning of development phase
2020-07-07	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.
2020-07-14 2020-07-15	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2020-07-21	Tag rc1
2020-07-28	Tag rc2
2020-08-04	Tag rc3
2020-08-11	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2020-08-18	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 crashes when running "make check-qtest-aarch64 SPEED=slow". Workaround is available: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg04993.html
• QEMU aborts when plugging a PCIe bridge on ppc64: "qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -device pcie-pci-bridge". Patch is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg03336.html
• QEMU aborts with: "qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -device pnv-psi-POWER8". Patch is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg02624.html
• x86_64 guests are not booting in HVF: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-07/msg04596.html

Fixed in rc2

• Guest hangs on system_reset if using -cpu host. bug report, fix
• Crash with multiple virtio-net-ccw devices: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20200724152718.4e1cbc9e.cohuck@redhat.com/
  • Fixed by https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20200727125150.4687-1-jasowang@redhat.com/
• linux-user in chroot without /proc on 4.17+ kernel fails because min_mmap_address starts from 0 (e.g. m68k guests)
  • Fixed by https://patchew.org/QEMU/20200724212314.545877-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org/ in lviviers linux-user-for-5.1 branch

Fixed in rc3

• Xen: "Fix xen_enabled() behavior on target-agnostic objects"
• arm LDRA[AB] insn decode bug
• target/riscv/vector_helper compile warning on 32-bit BE hosts
• qcow2 asserts on sign-extension bug when preallocating large images, proposed patch
• aarch64 wrong ESR_ELx fields for copro traps

Not yet fixed in any rc

• the new block-copy feature can assert on unaligned images [1]

Will not be fixed in 5.1

• tests/test-char fails on CentOS 7 - see https://patchew.org/logs/20200716150617.4027356-1-armbru@redhat.com/testing.docker-quick@centos7/?type=message for example
• ACPI PCI root UID mismatch

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/5.1 for full details.