Planning/8.0

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Release Schedule

Preliminary, unconfirmed.

2022-12-14 Beginning of development phase
2023-03-07 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.
2023-03-14 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2023-03-21 Tag rc1
2023-03-28 Tag rc2
2023-04-04 Tag rc3
2023-04-11 Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2023-04-18 Release if we needed an rc4

Known issues

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/8

Other release info

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

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/8.0 for full details.