Planning/4.2

Release Schedule

Draft schedule, not yet confirmed.

2019-08-16	Beginning of development phase
2019-10-29	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.
2019-11-05 2019-11-07	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2019-11-12	Tag rc1
2019-11-19	Tag rc2
2019-11-26	Tag rc3
2019-12-03	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2019-12-10	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.

Fixed in rc1:

• linux-user static builds fail with glibc git master due to removed "stime" function https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1852115

Fixed in rc3

• centos and ubuntu.i386 vm-test-build targets

Will be fixed in rc4:

• s390 "-boot menu=on" regression

Will be fixed in rc5:

• nested virt crasher https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-12/msg01153.html

Not yet fixed in any rc:

• `query-cpu-model-definitions` libvirt compatibility breakage reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1779078
• bitmap delete regression, including crash if transaction involved https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-12/msg01206.html
• SLOF firmware update https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-12/msg01127.html (too many changes?)

Will not be fixed for this release:

• intermittent iotest failures on gitlab (build-tcg-disabled - tests 056, 129)
• vm-build-all failures
  • check-unit: tests/test-aio-multithread fails on NetBSD

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/4.2 for full details.