Comment 3 for bug 1866866

> With that a potential regression can be considered as low - and even in case of a regression,
> it will affect s390x only.

From a release perspective, I don't think this is an adequate rationale for a feature freeze exception. It only affects one architecture, but that is a release architecture and we expect to deliver a quality product on that architecture, the same as for all the others. What are the characteristics of the update itself that would minimize the risk of regression? Are these new features going to change the existing default behavior of qemu / s390-tools, or are they strictly opt-in as new options?