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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.
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 rc2 ===
* ghes migration broken (looped vmstate https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-10/msg05187.html )


=== Fixed in rc1 ===
=== Fixed in rc1 ===
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* microblaze s3adsp1800 stuck while booting (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02183.html) - not a recent regression, also happens with v5.0 already, thus this should likely not block the release
* microblaze s3adsp1800 stuck while booting (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02183.html) - not a recent regression, also happens with v5.0 already, thus this should likely not block the release
* migration incompatibility of nec-usb-xhci ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg03128.html )
* migration incompatibility of nec-usb-xhci ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg03128.html )
* ghes migration broken (looped vmstate https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-10/msg05187.html )
* Crash with "qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv -device macio-newworld" or "qemu-system-ppc64 -M mac99 -device macio-oldworld" (fix is available here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02630.html)
* Crash with "qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv -device macio-newworld" or "qemu-system-ppc64 -M mac99 -device macio-oldworld" (fix is available here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02630.html)
* Xen support no longer built on arm64 (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02841.html)
* Xen support no longer built on arm64 (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg02841.html)

Revision as of 12:43, 13 November 2020

Release Schedule

To be determined; release will be mid-December.

2020-08-12 Beginning of development phase
2020-10-27 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.
2020-11-03 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2020-11-10 Tag rc1
2020-11-17 Tag rc2
2020-11-24 Tag rc3
2020-12-01 Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2020-12-08 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 rc2

Fixed in rc1

Not fixed yet

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/5.2 for full details.