Planning/5.0
Release Schedule
Draft schedule, not yet confirmed.
| 2019-12-13 | Beginning of development phase |
| 2020-03-17 | 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. |
| 2020-03-24 | Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 |
| 2020-03-31 | Tag rc1 |
| 2020-04-07 | Tag rc2 |
| 2020-04-14 | Tag rc3 |
| 2020-04-21 | Release; or tag rc4 if needed |
| 2020-04-28 | 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.
Will be fixed in rc1:
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2020-01/msg00569.html (specifically patches 3 and 4) broke qemu-img convert with a host device or iscsi target
Not yet fixed in any rc:
- migrate 5.0->4.2 q35 fails with Unknown savevm section or instance 'serial' 1. tbd (dgilbert)
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/5.0 for full details.