Planning/8.1

Release Schedule

2023-04-20	Beginning of development phase
2023-07-11	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.
2023-07-18	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2023-07-25	Tag rc1
2023-08-01	Tag rc2
2023-08-08	Tag rc3
2023-08-15	~~Release; or~~ tag rc4 if needed
2023-08-22	Release ~~if we needed an rc4~~
2023-09-19	Freeze for 8.1.1 stable/bugfix release
2023-09-21	Tag v8.1.1. Please note: v8.1.1 is being released with known, still unfixed in qemu/master, bugs, also existing in v8.1.0
2023-10-14	Freeze for 8.1.2 stable/bugfix release
2023-10-16	Tag v8.1.2
2023-11-19	Freeze for 8.1.3 stable/bugfix release
2023-11-21	Tag v8.1.3
2023-12-20	Freeze for 8.1.4 stable/bugfix release
2023-12-22	Tag v8.1.4
2024-01-27	Freeze for 8.1.5 stable/bugfix release
2024-01-29	Tag v8.1.5 (no subsequent stable releases are planned after this point)

Please use GitLab Issues to track release blocker bugs:

Currently queued patches for the next stable/bugfix release, if any:

See the ChangeLog/8.1 for full details.