Planning/2.6
Release Schedule
| 2015-12-17 | Beginning of development phase |
| 2016-03-01 | Soft feature freeze. All features
should have patches on the list by this date; major features should have initial code committed. |
| Hard feature freeze. Tag -rc0,
only bug fixes committed after this point | |
| 2016-04-05 | Tag v2.6.0-rc1 |
| Tag v2.6.0-rc2 | |
| Tag v2.6.0-rc3 | |
| Tag v2.6.0-rc4 | |
| 2016-05-09 | Tag v2.6.0-rc5 (this rc was delayed to wait for CVE fixes which couldn't go out until the end of an embargo period) |
| Tag v2.6.0 | |
| 2016-08-12 | Freeze for v2.6.1 |
| 2016-08-17 | Tag v2.6.1 |
| 2016-09-26 | Freeze for v2.6.2 |
| 2016-09-29 | Tag v2.6.2 |
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.
Still unfixed in master
Nothing, hurrah!
Fixed in rc1
- Compile failures if libnfs is enabled
- net/netmap.c broken on FreeBSD [1]
- don't use 8-byte atomic access on 32-bit platforms (fixes freebsd, ppc32, etc)
- ensure chardev socket backends are in non-blocking mode [2]
- cannot connect resolve client hostnames on FreeBSD [3] (broken since 2.4.0 by commit 3de3d698d942d1116152417f882c897b26b44e41)
Fixed in rc2
- add i82801b11 missing migration data
- tests/bios-tables-test: fix assert (make check will fail for newer iasl without it)
- reentrancy problems for dataplane/aio (fixed in pull 8227e2d16705b8c94df93f465d4e1659c28c69ce)
- compilation failure when --enable-tcg-interpreter is used (Stefan Weil has patch posted)
Fixed in rc3
- Networking is broken on Windows hosts
- pflash block/io.c bdrv_co_do_pwritev during migrate (typically EFI setup)
- NBD features added in 2.6 don't quite follow protocol [4] [5]
- buffer overrun in cadence_uart
- cuda: fix off-by-one error in SET_TIME command [6]
- Update language files in po/. As there were changes in ui/gtk.c, the line numbers need an update.
- gluster data corruption after io errors
- fix pv-grub booting with xenfb [7]
- wrong r0 on kernel boot on raspi2/xilinx-zynq/highbank/midway
- TCG performance 15% regression due to assert()
Fixed in rc4
- nbd: Don't mishandle unaligned client requests
- performance regression since 2.4 on AArch64 due to not using transparent huge pages
- While committing snapshot qemu crashes with SIGABRT [8] (wants 'block: Fix assertion failure at mirror exit' series)
Fixed in rc5
- vga security fixes (CVE-2016-3710, CVE-2016-3712)
Not planned to be fixed for 2.6
- compilation failure on 3.20 gtk (fedora 24) - deprecated functions (not a failure for release tarballs, workaround for building from git tree is to use --disable-werror; we will fix this in 2.7)
- iscsi: cannot associate -drive driver=iscsi with -iscsi args to get authentication credentials when iSCSI IQN contains a ':' (which essentially all of them do). Needed to fix CVE-2015-5160 in libvirt https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-04/msg03387.html
- target-mips: there is an old bug which was detected and fixed too late, see http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/619962/. This bug also triggers a build failure with recent gcc.
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/2.6 for full details.