Re: [win-pv-devel] 8.2.0-rc1 has been tagged

[Éliás Tamás <et@xxxxxxx>]

Hi. When do you expect the master branch to be stable and ready for
production use (eg.: signed)?



2016-12-12 09:43 keltezéssel, Paul Durrant írta:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Cerveny [mailto:martin@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 10 December 2016 08:28
>> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] 8.2.0-rc1 has been tagged
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Dec 2016, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>>  The master branches will shortly have their version info changed to
>>> 9.0.0. The reason for bumping the major version is that I intend to move
>>> to the new VS2015/WDK10 tool-chain and, to make use of newer versions
>> of
>>> APIs (e.g storport and NDIS) I want to make Windows 8 the oldest OS
>>> version supported by the drivers going forward. I will be pushing
>>> patches to add the VS2015 scripts and update the version information in
>>> the next few days.
>>
>> Is this also official statement for Citrix XenServer support for
>> Win7/Win2008R2 ?
>>
> 
> No. This is nothing to do with XenServer or Citrix. This is my choice as 
> community lead of the Xen Project PV drivers.
> 
>> Please do not drop support to Win7/Win2008R2 until >=2020.
>> (WDK10+VS2015 is compatible with Win7/Win2008R2).
>>
> 
> It is my intention that the 8.2 drivers will continue to support Vista/2K8, 
> Win7 and 2K8R2 and will receive maintenance (i.e. bug fixes) until those OS 
> are out of support by Microsoft. Development of new features will however be 
> done on the master branch.
> 
>   Paul
> 
>> Thanks, Martin Cerveny
>>
>>
>>>
>>>  Cheers,
>>>
>>>    Paul
>>>
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