Planning/6.0
Release Schedule
(not yet final)
| 2020-12-09 | Beginning of development phase |
| 2021-03-16 | 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. |
| 2021-03-23 | Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 |
| 2021-03-30 | Tag rc1 |
| 2021-04-06 | Tag rc2 |
| 2021-04-13 | Tag rc3 |
| 2021-04-20 | Release; or tag rc4 if needed |
| 2021-04-27 | 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.
Not fixed yet
- Running something like
qemu-system-x86_64 -device isa-fdc,helpshowsdefault: (null)instead of the proper default values in the output (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg04432.html for the discussion on the mailing list) - Windows won't boot on default x86_64 machine type for 6.0 (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg05322.html)
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/6.0 for full details.