Planning/2.12

Release Schedule

2017-12-13	Beginning of development phase
2018-03-13	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.
2018-03-20	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2018-03-27	Tag rc1
~~2018-04-03~~ 2018-04-04	Tag rc2
~~2018-04-10~~ 2018-04-11	Tag rc3
2018-04-17	Tag rc4
2018-04-24	Release.

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

macio IDE TRIM fixes: [1] and [2].

Fixed in rc3

Crash with: ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -S -machine 40p -device i82374 (patch is available here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg06678.html )
GTK WARNING and CRITICAL errors when closing QEMU window directly instead of using the "Quit" menu option (patch available at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg04315.html)

Fixed in rc4

softfloat: failed to raise Invalid for float-to-int conversions of NaN and infinity
softfloat: minnummag and maxnummag mishandled +Zero, -Zero
linux-user aarch64 signal frame not quite right
compile failure on MIPS hosts building aarch64 targets
m68k: fix exception stack frame for 68000
fix for handling dirty bitmaps in qcow2 files
gtk message catalogs not installed if CONFIG_GTK=y
softfloat: division of inf by 0 should not raise DivByZero
linux-user aarch64 signal frame not fully checked for writability
i386 FEAT_KVM_HINTS bits should not be automatically enabled
softfloat scalbn increment not bounded

Not yet fixed in any rc

Issues that will not be fixed

update po files (needed because of recent changes in ui/gtk.c)
mux Ctrl-a b doesn't send break
the query-cpus-fast QMP command reports bogus arch data for all architectures except x86 and s390; applications should be careful to not rely on the bogus information

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.12 for full details.