I think things are looking in reasonable shape. I intend to branch off the 4.15 stable branch tomorrow. I will then turn off debug on that branch. There will be a commit moratorium in force for much of the afternoon while the branching is done - commmitters please check your mail or irc.
Any outstanding patches that have a release-ack but have not yet been committed should go in ASAP, and certainly by Friday. I have reviewed my list of blockers and the conversation that followed and there are just three areas that are still of concern to me: * io-apic issue on Ryzen 1800X Related Qubes issue tracking this: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6423 Information from Jan Beulich <[email protected]> Andrew Cooper <[email protected]> Frédéric Pierret <[email protected]> Are we likely to get a fix in the next few days ? I think it may be time to reconcile ourselves to not fixing this, and deciding on a suitable plan B. Do we need to put something in the release notes, or SUPPORT.md, or implement a mitigation of some kind ? * Subject: Re: xenstore_lib.h and libxenstore API/ABI problems In the last mail in that thread, I wrote: | I suggest, instead, that we: | | In 4.15: | | * Retain the current soname, but: | * Delete the tdb internals from the header file and cease to export | those symbols. | * Rename the expanding_buffer and sanitise_value functions, to | properly namespace them, and move them to a private header. | | This is of course technically a breach of the ABI stability rules but | for the reasons I [give above] I don't think it will cause anyone any | trouble. I don't think I have seen any patches in this area. I'm concerned that this is getting late. I suspect we may have to punt this to xen-next. * Release notes (feature list), SUPPORT.md. This is on my plate, although George is helping with the feature list (thanks!) Thanks, Ian.
