Re: [PATCH 2/2] Update Xen version to 4.21.0-rc1

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 09:08:40PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CC: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  README       | 10 +++++-----
>  SUPPORT.md   |  2 +-
>  xen/Makefile |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 9329f30e1366..eaee78bd7375 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
>  ############################################################
> -__  __                                _        _     _
> -\ \/ /___ _ __        _   _ _ __  ___| |_ __ _| |__ | | ___
> - \  // _ \ '_ \ _____| | | | '_ \/ __| __/ _` | '_ \| |/ _ \
> - /  \  __/ | | |_____| |_| | | | \__ \ || (_| | |_) | |  __/
> -/_/\_\___|_| |_|      \__,_|_| |_|___/\__\__,_|_.__/|_|\___|
> + __  __            _  _    ____  _
> + \ \/ /___ _ __   | || |  |___ \/ |   _ __ ___
> +  \  // _ \ '_ \  | || |_   __) | |__| '__/ __|
> +  /  \  __/ | | | |__   _| / __/| |__| | | (__
> + /_/\_\___|_| |_|    |_|(_)_____|_|  |_|  \___|
>  
>  ############################################################
>  
> diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
> index eb44ee85fd12..491f9ecd1bbb 100644
> --- a/SUPPORT.md
> +++ b/SUPPORT.md
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ for the definitions of the support status levels etc.
>  
>  # Release Support
>  
> -    Xen-Version: 4.21-unstable
> +    Xen-Version: 4.21-rc
>      Initial-Release: n/a
>      Supported-Until: TBD
>      Security-Support-Until: Unreleased - not yet security-supported
> diff --git a/xen/Makefile b/xen/Makefile
> index 49da79e10fb4..ba8c7147a2f6 100644
> --- a/xen/Makefile
> +++ b/xen/Makefile
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ this-makefile := $(call lastword,$(MAKEFILE_LIST))
>  # All other places this is stored (eg. compile.h) should be autogenerated.
>  export XEN_VERSION       = 4
>  export XEN_SUBVERSION    = 21
> -export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= -unstable$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)
> +export XEN_EXTRAVERSION ?= .0-rc1$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)

In previous switches to start cutting RC's we didn't add the 1 to the
XEN_EXTRAVERSION, see 19730dbb3fd8078743d5196bd7fc32f3765557ad for
example.  If we do add the rc number we need to remember to bump it
each time and RC is released.

Thanks, Roger.