I would like Variable Policy to be considered for this feature freeze. I have a couple of documentation things to respond to, but no serious functionality questions (that I know of). - Bret ________________________________ From: devel@edk2.groups.io on behalf of Liming Gao via groups.io Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 1:16:41 AM To: devel@edk2.groups.io ; announce@edk2.groups.io Cc: Laszlo Ersek ; Leif Lindholm ; afish@apple.com ; Kinney, Michael D ; Guptha, Soumya K Subject: [EXTERNAL] [edk2-devel] Soft Feature Freeze starts now for edk2-stable202008 Hi, all We will enter into Soft Feature Freeze phase. In this phase, the feature under review will not be allowed to be pushed. The feature passed review can still be merged. Now, two features have passed code review. If no other comments, I will merge them into this stable tag. They are: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64176 SEV-ES guest support, https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/64283 Add a plugin to check Ecc issues for edk2 on open ci. The patch review can continue without break in edk2 community. If the patch is sent before Soft Feature Freeze, and plans to catch this stable tag, the patch contributor need reply to his patch and notify edk2 community. If the patch is sent after Soft Feature Freeze, and plans to catch this stable tag, please add edk2-stable202008 key words in the patch title and BZ, so the community know this patch target and give the feedback. Below is edk2-stable202008 tag planning https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II-Release-Planning Proposed Schedule Date (00:00:00 UTC-8) Description 2020-06-03 Beginning of development 2020-08-07 Feature Planning Freeze 2020-08-14 Soft Feature Freeze 2020-08-21 Hard Feature Freeze 2020-08-28 Release Thanks Liming