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

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: win-pv-devel [mailto:win-pv-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Éliás Tamás
> Sent: 12 December 2016 10:41
> To: win-pv-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [win-pv-devel] 8.2.0-rc1 has been tagged
> 
> Hi. When do you expect the master branch to be stable and ready for
> production use (eg.: signed)?
> 

The master branch or the 8.2 branch? Since I've only just branched 8.2 I don't 
expect to release 9.0 for quite some time. I expect 8.2 to be released in the 
next couple of months or so, depending on how logo testing goes.

  Paul

> 
> 
> 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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