Release Schedule

2011-02-01	Begin of 0.15 development phase
2011-05-16	Soft feature freeze. Major features should have initial code committed by this date.
2011-06-15; Now 2011-07-22	Fork off stable-0.15, development of 0.16 begins. Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc0
2011-06-24; Now 2011-07-29	Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc1
2011-06-28; Now 2011-08-03	Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc2
2011-07-01; Now 2011-08-05	Tag qemu-0.15.0

Merged Features

(Names refer to people who took or are taking care of merging. More people not mentioned here might have contributed to the features).

PowerPC improvements
- e500 emulation (Alexander Graf)
- pSeries emulation (David Gibson)
s390x target support (Alexander Graf)
Virtualization
- Xen HVM domain support (Anthony Perard)
USB improvements
- Major emulation improvements
- Smart card emulation (Alon Levy)
New lm32 target (Michael Walle)
New unicore32 target (Guan Xuetao)
more?

Virtualization
- Xenner support (Alexander Graf)
iothread (Paolo Bonzini, Jan Kiszka):
- ~~Win32 iothread support~~
- ~~high-precision rt_clock support~~
- ~~-icount support~~
- qemu-kvm conversion to iothread (Jan Kiszka, in progress)
- Mac OS X iothread support?
QAPI (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 0 (JSON improvements) (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 1 (code generator) (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 2 (complete conversion) (Anthony Liguori)
- QAPI Round 3 (session discovery, etc.) (Anthony Liguori)
SGA support (Glauber Costa)
USB improvements
- USB 2.0 support (Gerd Hoffmann)