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Revision as of 17:07, 29 April 2021
Release Schedule
| 2020-12-09 | Beginning of development phase |
| 2021-03-16 | 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. |
| 2021-03-23 | Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0 |
| 2021-03-30 | Tag rc1 |
| 2021-04-06 | Tag rc2 |
| 2021-04-13 | Tag rc3 |
| 2021-04-20 | |
| 2021-04-26 | Tag rc5 |
| 2021-04-29 | Release |
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
- Semihosting SYS_HEAPINFO (currently in for-6.0/fixes-for-rc1 (original series))
Fixed in rc1
- util: fix use-after-free in module_load_one
- dbus-vmstate: Increase the size of input stream buffer used during load
- yank: Add chardev tests and fixes
Fixed in rc2
- Running something like
qemu-system-x86_64 -device isa-fdc,helpshowsdefault: (null)instead of the proper default values in the output (fix is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg08402.html)
Fixed in rc3
- QEMU aborts with:
qemu-system-ppc64 -device power8_v2.0-spapr-cpu-core,help - QEMU aborts with:
qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500 -device macio-oldworld - Invalid handling of emulated nvme private namespaces (fix is here: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210405175452.37578-8-its@irrelevant.dk/)
- Windows won't boot on default x86_64 machine type for 6.0 (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-03/msg05322.html)
- virtiofs feature negotiation incorrect (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg01306.html )
- ESP security fixes (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg01000.html)
- ESP acceptance test/migration fix (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg00860.html)
- mps3-an524: Fix MPC setting for SRAM block
- Sphinx qapidoc extension messes up man output for 'if' conditions (see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg00628.html)
Fixed in rc4
- new glib causes compile failure when C++ compiler involved (patches 1 and 2 of https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210416135543.20382-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org/)
- mps3-an547 doesn't enable fpu or dsp on its CPU (https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210415182353.8173-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org/)
- mps3-an547 uses wrong CPU type (https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210416104010.13228-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org/)
- using -icount and executing from non-RAM can abort() in cpu_io_recompile() (https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210415162454.22056-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org/)
- [PATCH-for-6.0? v3] mptsas: Remove unused MPTSASState 'pending' field (CVE-2021-3392)
- migration: Deprecate redundant query-migrate result @blocked
- target/mips/rel6_translate: Change license to GNU LGPL v2.1 (or later)
- [PATCH for-6.0?] qga: fix guest-get-disks regression
Fixed in rc5
- segfault if hotplugging a network interface
- s390 linux-user intermittent crash in signal handlers
- assert if unplugging emulated nvme controller
Not fixed yet
Will not be fixed in 6.0
- QEMU crashes with:
qemu-system-i386 -M x-remote -device piix3-ide-xen(suggested fix: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg02840.html ) - QEMU aborts with:
qemu-system-mips64el -M pica61 -device isa-vga
Targeted Features
See the ChangeLog/6.0 for full details.