Planning/2.8

Release Schedule

2016-09-02	Beginning of development phase
2016-11-01	Soft feature freeze. Only bug fixes after this point.
2016-11-15	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2016-11-22	Tag rc1
2016-11-29	Tag rc2
2016-12-06	Tag rc3
2016-12-13	Tag rc4 if necessary, otherwise release
2016-12-20	Release if rc4 was necessary

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.

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1623276 -- iPXE binaries bundled with QEMU 2.7 crash on KVM hosts that have no unrestricted_guest support. Radim, Bandan et al are working on the KVM insn emulation, while Laszlo posted iPXE patches to excise fxsave/fxrstor from the CONFIG=qemu build of iPXE. The iPXE maintainer committed the patches; QEMU's ipxe submodule should be updated to iPXE commit b991c67c1d91 or later, and the bundled iPXE binaries should be refreshed.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.8 for full details.