Hi; I've just tagged v2.2.0-rc0 in master, so we're now officially in hardfreeze, and only accepting bug fixes from here onward. Mike Roth should have the rc0 tarballs out sometime later today.
I've updated http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.2 to list -rc dates; as usual, one a week, with the hope that -rc3 will be the final one with no changes between that and the release proper. Please make sure you update the changelog at http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.2 with any interesting/important new features that got added in this release. thanks -- PMM