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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.
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 is unresponsive (as of 2016-Nov-08).
* 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.


=== rc1 ===
=== rc1 ===

Revision as of 19:50, 8 November 2016

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.

rc1

Issues that will not be fixed

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.8 for full details.