>> On Dec 6, 2019, at 17:57, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 04:00, Liu, Yi L <yi.l....@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