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	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2017-03-14	Tag rc1
2017-03-21	Tag rc2
2017-03-28	Tag rc3
2017-04-04	Tag rc4 if necessary, otherwise release
2016-04-11	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.

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.9 for full details.