Re: about QEMU release schedule

["Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>]

>> On Dec 6, 2019, at 17:57, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 04:00, Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@intel.com> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> I’m wondering what’s the rule of QEMU version naming and release.
>> I noticed there is a v3.1.1.1 released after v4.1.0 was released.
> 
> Any reason for not just asking this on the public lists?

No, I should have cced mailing list, thus other people would learn it as well. 

>> Also, I’d like to query the release plan in 2020. What version would it
>> be in 2020-July?
> 
> For many years we've done major releases three times
> a year, in April, August and December (roughly).
> Starting from 4.0, we switched to a naming convention where
> the major number just increments once a year. So 2019's
> releases are 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2; 2020's will be 5.0, 5.1
> and 5.2, and so on.
> 
> Further releases on stable branches (eg 4.0.1, etc) are
> not handled by me -- they're done by Mike Roth. I don't
> know what the usual pattern is for those or how many
> branches back we do updates for.

Thanks a lot for the sharing. 

Regards,
Yi Liu