Planning/4.0
Release Schedule
Tentatively proposed dates, still to be discussed/agreed.
2018-12-12 | Beginning of development phase |
2019-03-12 | 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. |
2019-03-19 | Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 |
2019-03-26 | Tag rc1 |
2019-04-02 | Tag rc2 |
2019-04-09 | Tag rc3 |
2019-04-16 | Release, or tag rc4 if extra RC cycle needed |
2019-04-23 | 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 rc0
Not yet fixed in any rc
- Pending migration PR https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg04457.html
- filemon inotify watch uniqneness https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg04885.html
- linux-user compile is broken with latest glibc master, due to gettid clash
- Travis timeout fixes https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg05775.html
- MIPS FPU NaN propergation https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg05808.html
- aarch64-softmmu/virt unintentionally gained the "virtio-vga" device (via the Kconfig conversion), which misleads libvirt https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg06060.html
Issues that will not be fixed
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/4.0 for full details.