Planning/0.15

Release Schedule

2011-02-01	Begin of 0.15 development phase
2011-05-16	Soft feature freeze. Major features should have initial code committed by this date.
2011-06-15; Now 2011-07-22	Fork off stable-0.15, development of 0.16 begins. Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc0
2011-06-24; Now 2011-07-29	Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc1
2011-06-28; Now 2011-08-04	Tag qemu-0.15.0-rc2
2011-07-01; Now 2011-08-08	Tag qemu-0.15.0

Merged Features

(Names refer to people who took or are taking care of merging. More people not mentioned here might have contributed to the features).

• PowerPC improvements
  • e500 emulation (Alexander Graf)
  • pSeries emulation (David Gibson)
• s390x target support (Alexander Graf)
• Virtualization
  • Xen HVM domain support (Anthony Perard)
• USB improvements
  • Major emulation improvements
  • Smart card emulation (Alon Levy)
• New lm32 target (Michael Walle)
• New unicore32 target (Guan Xuetao)
• more?

Targeted Features

• Virtualization
  • Xenner support (Alexander Graf)
• iothread (Paolo Bonzini, Jan Kiszka):
  • Win32 iothread support
  • high-precision rt_clock support
  • -icount support
  • qemu-kvm conversion to iothread (Jan Kiszka, in progress)
  • Mac OS X iothread support?
• QAPI (Anthony Liguori)
  • QAPI Round 0 (JSON improvements) (Anthony Liguori)
  • QAPI Round 1 (code generator) (Anthony Liguori)
  • QAPI Round 2 (complete conversion) (Anthony Liguori)
  • QAPI Round 3 (session discovery, etc.) (Anthony Liguori)
• SGA support (Glauber Costa)
• USB improvements
  • USB 2.0 support (Gerd Hoffmann)

Blocker Bugs

• Warning: more nics requested than this machine supports