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
Fixed in rc1
Fixed in rc2
- spapr linux guests crash under TCG https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg06447.html
- TCG crash when running a ppc64le guest https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg07374.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 -- fixed in commit 938912a86611
Will be fixed in rc3
- 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
- Travis timeout fixes https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg05775.html
- migration of intel_iommu due to root_scalable field
- MIPS FPU NaN propagation https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg05808.html
- COLO bitmap_mutex error https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg07909.html
- migration to 3.1 gives : Unknown savevm section or instance 'audio' 0.
- linux-user compile is broken with latest glibc master, due to gettid clash
- PCIe extended config space not accessible on spapr https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-04/msg00204.html
- target/i386: Generate #UD for LOCK on a register increment
- Crash with qemu-system-x86_64 -monitor stdio -M pc-1.1 and device_add nvdimm,id=n1 - patch: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1079964/
- roms: EFIROM variable clashes with iPXE https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-04/msg01033.html
- include/qemu/bswap.h: Use __builtin_memcpy() in accessor functions
Not yet fixed in any rc
- use-after-free in multifd_recv_unfill_packet() (CID 1400442)
Issues that will not be fixed
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/4.0 for full details.