Planning/2.9

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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.
2017-03-072017-03-14 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2017-03-142017-03-21 Tag rc1
2017-03-212017-03-28 Tag rc2
2017-03-282017-04-04 Tag rc3
2017-04-042017-04-11 Tag rc4 if necessary, otherwise release
2017-04-112017-04-18 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.

Fixed in rc0

Fixed in rc1

Fixed in rc2

  • SPARC host failure in tests/virtio-9p-test (using le*_to_cpus() on unaligned field in packed struct)

Not yet fixed in any rc

  • SPARC host failures (not extending arguments to load/store helpers) -- patch on list
  • test-qga fails if /sys/devices/ doesn't have slaves/ directory where expected
  • SPARC host failure in tests/bios-tables-test (unaligned field in packed struct)
  • NetBSD build failure because ivshmem-server uses shm_open but doesn't link -lrt
  • OSX graphics don't work (trying to call into cocoa from wrong thread)
  • OpenBSD fails make check ("-drive if=none,id=drive1,file=/dev/null,format=raw: Could not refresh total sector count: Operation not supported by device")
  • bsd-user compile failure

Issues that will not be fixed

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/2.9 for full details.