Planning/6.2

Release Schedule

Proposed, not confirmed.

2021-08-25	Beginning of development phase
2021-11-02	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.
2021-11-09	Hard feature freeze. Tag rc0
2021-11-16	Tag rc1
2021-11-23	Tag rc2
2021-11-30	Tag rc3
2021-12-07	Release; or tag rc4 if needed
2021-12-14	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.

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/3

Patches on list

• AMD SEV kerenl hashes regression fix https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-11/msg02598.html

Not fixed yet

• PCI hotplug regression in 6.1 with ovmf https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/705

• PCI hotplug with 15 devices regression in 6.1 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/641

• Fix ESCC reset changes to allow qemu-system-sparc to boot with the Sun PROM https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-11/msg02797.html

• "make check" failure in sanitizer build (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-11/msg03207.html)

• pthread_setname_np check is broken (see https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/YZKVuz5VJN6e9zjo@redhat.com/)

Targeted Features

See the ChangeLog/6.2 for full details.