Planning/2.9

Release Schedule

2016-12-20	Beginning of development phase
2017-02-28	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.
~~2017-03-07~~2017-03-14	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
~~2017-03-14~~2017-03-21	Tag rc1
~~2017-03-21~~2017-03-28	Tag rc2
~~2017-03-28~~2017-04-04	Tag rc3
~~2017-04-04~~2017-04-11	Tag rc4
2017-04-18	Tag rc5
~~2017-04-11~~ ~~2017-04-18~~ 2017-04-20	Release
2017-09-04	Freeze for v2.9.1
2017-09-07	Tag v2.9.1

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

Fixed in rc1

Fixed in rc2

SPARC host failure in tests/virtio-9p-test (using le*_to_cpus() on unaligned field in packed struct)
bsd-user compile failure
OSX graphics don't work (trying to call into cocoa from wrong thread)
Deadlocks in Win32 condition variables

Fixed in rc3

SPARC host failures (not extending arguments to load/store helpers) -- patch on list
aarch64 KVM doesn't work on kernel 4.10 or lower
SPARC host failure in tests/bios-tables-test (unaligned field in packed struct)
migration failure of usb storage on xhci under a PCI bridge; works in 2.8 (See patch from Gerd: xhci: flush dequeue pointer to endpoint context)
test-qga fails if /sys/devices/ doesn't have slaves/ directory where expected
-serial stdio output may get stuck due to glib main loop signaling issue

Fixed in rc4

record-and-replay is broken (patches on list: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg00661.html)
Storage live migration is broken (guest devices don't allow writes to the image on the destination even while the migration is still running)
snapshot_blkdev is broken when using iothreads

Not yet fixed in any rc

Issues that will not be fixed

NetBSD build failure because ivshmem-server uses shm_open but doesn't link -lrt
OpenBSD fails make check ("-drive if=none,id=drive1,file=/dev/null,format=raw: Could not refresh total sector count: Operation not supported by device")

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.9 for full details.