Planning/5.1

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Release Schedule

2020-04-29 Beginning of development phase
2020-07-07 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.
2020-07-14 2020-07-15 Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2020-07-21 Tag rc1
2020-07-28 Tag rc2
2020-08-04 Tag rc3
2020-08-11 Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2020-08-18 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

Fixed in rc2

Fixed in rc3

  • Xen: "Fix xen_enabled() behavior on target-agnostic objects"
  • arm LDRA[AB] insn decode bug
  • target/riscv/vector_helper compile warning on 32-bit BE hosts
  • qcow2 asserts on sign-extension bug when preallocating large images, proposed patch

Not yet fixed in any rc

  • aarch64 wrong ESR_ELx fields for copro traps

Will not be fixed in 5.1

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/5.1 for full details.