Planning/4.1

Release Schedule

Tentatively proposed dates, still to be discussed/agreed.

2018-04-24	Beginning of development phase
2019-07-02	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.
2019-07-09	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2019-07-16	Tag rc1
2019-07-23	Tag rc2
2019-07-30	Tag rc3
2019-08-06	Release, or tag rc4 if extra RC cycle needed
2019-08-13	Release, if we needed an rc4.

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.

Not yet fixed in any rc

• virtio-balloon/migration compatibility: There's a migration break between 3.1<->4.x; reported by Wolfgang Bumiller; fixed by stefan's virtio-balloon: fix QEMU 4.0 config size migration incompatibility 2019-07-10
• migration: migratie/migrate_cancel/migrate: Ivan Ren's post from 14th July - 'migration: always initial RAMBlock.bmap to 1 for new migration'

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/4.1 for full details.