Planning/2.8

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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~~ 2016-12-15	Tag rc4 if necessary, otherwise release
2016-12-20	Release if rc4 was necessary
2017-03-27	Freeze for 2.8.1
2017-03-30	Tag 2.8.1

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.

rc0

vhost is broken and causes errors in kvm_mem_ioeventfd_add.

Issues that will not be fixed

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.8 for full details.