Planning/6.1
Release Schedule
| 2021-04-30 | Beginning of development phase |
| 2021-07-13 | 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. |
| Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 | |
| 2021-07-27 | Tag rc1 |
| Tag rc2 | |
| 2021-08-10 | Tag rc3 |
| 2021-08-17 | Release; or tag rc4 if needed |
| 2021-08-24 | 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.
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/1
Fixed in rc1
- #484: 6.1 Regression: machine pflash parsing
- #488: 'spicevmc' is not a valid char driver name with --enable-modules
Fixed in rc4
- #524 : Giving -smp option a negative argument makes QEMU dump core
Patches on list
- #516: --enable-modules --enable-plugins build does not work on Mac
Not fixed yet
- "-M default_bus_bypass_iommu" not working for ARM virt machine
Will not be fixed in 6.1
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/6.1 for full details.