Planning/4.2

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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
2020-06-22	Freeze for 4.2.1
2020-06-25	Tag 4.2.1

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.

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
minimal SLOF firmware update to fix crash bug with spapr and pci bridges
bitmap delete regression, including crash if transaction involved https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-12/msg01206.html

Not yet fixed in any rc:

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
`query-cpu-model-definitions` libvirt compatibility breakage reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1779078 (not a regression)

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/4.2 for full details.