Schedule

2012-11-01 through 2013-01-31
  Feature and documentation development (obviously ongoing, but continued during this period)

  2013-01-02 - Call for volunteers for unassigned New Feature and Improvement items

  2013-01-04 - Unassigned new features and improvements will be removed from the 4.1.0 release

  2013-01-09 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-01-16 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-01-23 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-01-30 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

2013-01-31
  Feature Freeze
  All new feature need to have been merged into master by this date.
  Release branch will be cut on this date.
  Jenkins updated to include new release branch builds.

2013-02-01 through 2013-02-28
  Testing/Bug Fixes (testing against jenkins artifacts)
  Documentation Finalization

2013-02-28
  Docs Completion Target (except release notes and translations) (Docs may be included in the release after this date, after consensus on each addition that the inclusion does not reduce release quality).
  Release Branch moves to limited updates only (only commits allowed in would be release blockers fixes, translation updates, etc...)

2013-03-01 through 2013-03-22
  Translation Development and Integration (should be ongoing, but focused effort)
  Final regression testing / bug fixes / doc fixes

2013-03-22
  4.1.0-RC1 is created, and project level VOTE is called

Features

Improvements

Design Documents

4.1 Design Documents

QA Test Plan

The QA Test Plan for 4.1 is here : CloudStack QA 4.1 Test Plan

QA Guidelines and templates are available here :QA Guidelines & Templates

Documentation Plan

The Documentation Plan for 4.1 is at Apache CloudStack v 4.1 Documentation Plan

Guidelines for documentation contributors are available at CloudStack Documentation Contributors Overview

Release Candidates