Planning/6.0

Release Schedule

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.

Fixed in rc0

• Semihosting SYS_HEAPINFO (currently in for-6.0/fixes-for-rc1 (original series))

Fixed in rc1

• util: fix use-after-free in module_load_one
• dbus-vmstate: Increase the size of input stream buffer used during load
• yank: Add chardev tests and fixes

Fixed in rc2

• Running something like qemu-system-x86_64 -device isa-fdc,help shows default: (null) instead of the proper default values in the output (fix is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg08402.html)

Fixed in rc3

• QEMU aborts with: qemu-system-ppc64 -device power8_v2.0-spapr-cpu-core,help
• QEMU aborts with: qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500 -device macio-oldworld
• Invalid handling of emulated nvme private namespaces (fix is here: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210405175452.37578-8-its@irrelevant.dk/)
• 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)
• virtiofs feature negotiation incorrect (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg01306.html )
• ESP security fixes (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg01000.html)
• ESP acceptance test/migration fix (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg00860.html)
• mps3-an524: Fix MPC setting for SRAM block
• Sphinx qapidoc extension messes up man output for 'if' conditions (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg00628.html)

Not fixed yet

• new glib causes compile failure when C++ compiler involved (patches on list)
• mps3-an547 doesn't enable fpu or dsp on its CPU (https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210415182353.8173-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org/)
• using -icount and executing from non-RAM can abort() in cpu_io_recompile() (https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210415162454.22056-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org/)

Will not be fixed in 6.0

• QEMU crashes with: qemu-system-i386 -M x-remote -device piix3-ide-xen (suggested fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg02840.html )
• QEMU aborts with: qemu-system-mips64el -M pica61 -device isa-vga

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/6.0 for full details.