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+# Title page
+
+# Agenda
+
+# Xen 4.6 timeline
+  # 9 months release
+    # Start of development: 6 Jan 2015
+    # Freeze: 10 Jul 2015
+    # We're in RC now
+    # Release date: 9 Oct 2015 (could release earlier)
+  # Main goal of this release is to be on time
+  # Bonus if we can release earlier than scheduled
+
+# What measures are taken?
+  # (Sort of) scrapping soft freeze
+  # Focus on best bets during freeze
+
+
+# What's happening during this release
+  # Xen code base
+    # Hypervisor
+      # x86
+      # ARM
+    # Toolstack
+    # Others
+  # OpenStack
+  # Testing coverage
+
+
+# Hypervisor x86
+  # Alternate P2M
+  # PML
+  # CAT
+  # COS
+  # MBM
+  # RDM
+  # VPMU
+  # vNUMA for HVM
+
+
+# Hypervisor ARM
+  # Passthrough for non-PCI device
+  # OVMF for ARM
+  # Support 64K page guest
+  # ARM GICv2 on GICv3 support
+  # 32 bit userspace in 64 bit guest
+  # New platform support
+    # Renesas R-Car Gen2
+    # Thunder X Platform
+    # Huawei hip04-d01
+    # Xilinx ZynqMP SoC
+
+
+# Hypervisor
+  # VM Event (former mem event)
+  # io-req server improvement (prepararoty for Intel GT-V)
+  # Improved XSM support
+    # Many fixes to default policy
+    # Now tested in OSSTest
+    # Aim to make XSM enabled by default
+  # Removal of SEDF
+  # VTPM 2.0 support
+  # Grant table scalability improvement
+  # Use ticket lock to improve fairness
+
+
+# Toolstack 
+  # Migration v2
+  # Improved SPICE/QXL support
+  # Support for displaying I/O topology information
+  # Import Xenanalyze
+
+# Others
+  # Move Mini-OS out of tree
+    # becomes an indpendent project
+    # a move to foster unikernel movement
+
+# Diffstat for Xen 4.6
+
+
+# New community funded test lab is live
+  # Increased testing capacity (24 hosts and growing)
+  # More test cases
+    # Stubdom
+    # Libvirt
+    # Devstack
+    # Nested HVM
+    # Raisin
+    # OVMF
+
+# OpenStack
+  # CI loop up and running
+  # Group B
+ 
+# In the pipe line
+  # COLO based on migration v2
+  # Intel Posted-interrupt support
+  # Toolstack support for PV / HVM USB passthrough
+  # Use XenServer blktap
+  # ACPI for ARM64
+  # Porting Linux Intel P-state driver
+  # PCI passthrough for ARM
+  # RTDS scheduler improvement
+  # and more ...
+
+
+# Thank all contributors and maintainers for making an awesome release
+
+
+# What can be improved?
+  # Understand vendors' desire to use Xen upstream to deliver features
+  # Join the discussion on xen-devel
+