Planning/9.0

Release Schedule

2023-12-20	Beginning of development phase
2024-03-12	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.
2024-03-19	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2024-03-26	Tag rc1
2024-04-02	Tag rc2
2024-04-09 2024-04-10	Tag rc3
2024-04-16	Release; or tag rc4 if needed Tag rc4
2024-04-23	Release if we needed an rc4
2024-06-07	Freeze for 9.0.1 stable/bugfix release
2024-06-09	Tag v9.0.1

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/11

Other release info

Feel free to add non-bug information that is pertinent to the release here.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/9.0 for full details.