[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.1.0-rc2 is now available

[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.1.0-rc2 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
third release candidate for the QEMU 6.1 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 6.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/

The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
candidates, are available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/6.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 6.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc1:

bccabb3a5d: Update version for v6.1.0-rc2 release (Peter Maydell)
62a4db5522: Drop _DSM 5 from expected DSDTs on ARM (Michael S. Tsirkin)
40c3472a29: Revert "acpi/gpex: Inform os to keep firmware resource map" (Michael S. Tsirkin)
5cd4a8d4e5: arm/acpi: allow DSDT changes (Michael S. Tsirkin)
d7346e614f: acpi: x86: pcihp: add support hotplug on multifunction bridges (Igor Mammedov)
e2a6290aab: hw/pcie-root-port: Fix hotplug for PCI devices requiring IO (Marcel Apfelbaum)
4ac0b72bae: hw/sd/sdcard: Fix assertion accessing out-of-range addresses with CMD30 (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
2a0396285d: hw/sd/sdcard: Document out-of-range addresses for SEND_WRITE_PROT (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
87ab880252: block: Fix in_flight leak in request padding error path (Kevin Wolf)
50e36dd616: tests/tcg: Test that compare-and-trap raises SIGFPE (Jonathan Albrecht)
ccb5f2708f: linux-user/s390x: signal with SIGFPE on compare-and-trap (Jonathan Albrecht)
54ba2161d8: target/s390x: Fix SIGILL and SIGFPE psw.addr reporting (Ilya Leoshkevich)
43f547b73d: Update libslirp to v4.6.1 (Marc-André Lureau)
e300858ed4: qga-win/msi: fix missing libstdc++-6 DLL in MSI installer (Michael Roth)
5f2a8b1fc1: qemu-ga/msi: fix w32 libgcc name (Gerd Hoffmann)
24328b7a83: qga-win: Free GMatchInfo properly (Kostiantyn Kostiuk)
ce72f11274: qga-win: Fix handle leak in ga_get_win_product_name() (Basil Salman)
02ac3f4b95: qga-win: Fix build_guest_fsinfo() close of nonexistent (Basil Salman)
3d98f9b68d: qga-win: Increase VSS freeze timeout to 60 secs instead of 10 (Basil Salman)
4a64939db7: docs: Move user-facing barrier docs into system manual (Peter Maydell)
399a04775e: ui/input-barrier: Move TODOs from barrier.txt to a comment (Peter Maydell)
6cb02f1522: docs: Move the protocol part of barrier.txt into interop (Peter Maydell)
bd77bc8b89: docs: Move bootindex.txt into system section and rstify (Peter Maydell)
dae257394a: hw/arm/boot: Report error if there is no fw_cfg device in the machine (Peter Maydell)
4d6646c7de: docs/tools/virtiofsd.rst: Delete stray backtick (Peter Maydell)
1662ea9f4b: docs/about/removed-features: Fix markup error (Peter Maydell)
6df743dc31: docs: Format literals correctly (Peter Maydell)
8a48a7c2e0: docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst: Format literals correctly (Peter Maydell)
9c372ecfec: docs/system/s390x/protvirt.rst: Format literals correctly (Peter Maydell)
1e235edab8: docs/devel: Format literals correctly (Peter Maydell)
4df3a7bf8f: docs/devel/migration.rst: Format literals correctly (Peter Maydell)
f0d7b970ac: docs/devel/ebpf_rss.rst: Format literals correctly (Peter Maydell)
d463f3c79a: docs/devel/build-system.rst: Correct typo in example code (Peter Maydell)
35a4ca4031: docs/devel/build-system.rst: Format literals correctly (Peter Maydell)
4e0b15c252: docs: Move licence/copyright from HTML output to rST comments (Peter Maydell)
199a436305: docs: Remove stale TODO comments about license and version (Peter Maydell)
7c6ef61a5c: MAINTAINERS: Don't list Andrzej Zaborowski for various components (Peter Maydell)
b1b3e3e3bf: docs: Add documentation of Arm 'imx25-pdk' board (Peter Maydell)
fa6c93944a: docs: Add documentation of Arm 'kzm' board (Peter Maydell)
c9543db4cc: docs: Add documentation of Arm 'mainstone' board (Peter Maydell)
cfe6d6841f: hw/net: e1000e: Don't zero out the VLAN tag in the legacy RX descriptor (Christina Wang)
d897056960: hw/net: e1000e: Correct the initial value of VET register (Christina Wang)
a1d7e475be: hw/net: e1000: Correct the initial value of VET register (Christina Wang)
11744862f2: hw/net/can: sja1000 fix buff2frame_bas and buff2frame_pel when dlc is out of std CAN 8 bytes (Pavel Pisa)
9010b0c7a9: hw/net/vmxnet3: Do not abort QEMU if guest specified bad queue numbers (Thomas Huth)
236f6709ae: target/nios2: Mark raise_exception() as noreturn (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
7039e1f604: accel/tcg: Remove double bswap for helper_atomic_sto_*_mmu (Richard Henderson)
e17bdaab2b: coverity-model: write models fully for non-array allocation functions (Paolo Bonzini)
0da41187df: coverity-model: constrain g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_realloc as never returning NULL (Paolo Bonzini)
05ad6857a5: coverity-model: clean up the models for array allocation functions (Paolo Bonzini)
96915d638c: coverity-model: remove model for more allocation functions (Paolo Bonzini)
243a545bff: coverity-model: make g_free a synonym of free (Paolo Bonzini)
d4b3d152ee: coverity-model: update address_space_read/write models (Paolo Bonzini)
e4383ca240: vl: stop recording -smp in QemuOpts (Paolo Bonzini)
a3c2f12830: vl: introduce machine_merge_property (Paolo Bonzini)
cc8eecd7f1: MAINTAINERS: Added myself as a reviewer for the NVMe Block Driver (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
54caccb365: block/io_uring: resubmit when result is -EAGAIN (Fabian Ebner)
0ef2801423: MAINTAINERS: add Stefano Garzarella as io_uring reviewer (Stefano Garzarella)
30a20f2c5a: docs: Fold usb2.txt passthrough information into usb.rst (Peter Maydell)
557ae9763a: docs: Fold usb2.txt physical port addressing info into usb.rst (Peter Maydell)
78da86dce1: docs: Fold usb2.txt USB controller information into usb.rst (Peter Maydell)
2a49e4e927: docs: Incorporate information in usb-storage.txt into rST manual (Peter Maydell)
5e796671e6: usbredir: fix free call (Gerd Hoffmann)
8a2d766f05: ci: add libusb for windows builds (Gerd Hoffmann)
663fdc815e: usb-host: wire up timer for windows (Gerd Hoffmann)
4fe29344be: libvhost-user: fix -Werror=format= warnings with __u64 fields (Marc-André Lureau)
3f55f97b14: meson: fix meson 0.58 warning with libvhost-user subproject (Marc-André Lureau)
f594bfb79f: target/i386: fix typo in ctl_has_irq (Paolo Bonzini)
eceb4f0112: target/i386: Added consistency checks for event injection (Lara Lazier)
5b945f23d6: configure: Add -Werror to avx2, avx512 tests (Richard Henderson)
14833e24de: Makefile: ignore long options (Alexey Neyman)
e4adb09f79: i386: assert 'cs->kvm_state' is not null (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
b8ee198d21: configure script fix for Haiku (Richard Zak)
61c32485b7: tests: Fix migration-test build failure for sparc (Peter Xu)
c5dd0f0342: gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners: Improve rules for the staging branch (Thomas Huth)
e37264ebe3: gitlab-ci.d/buildtest: Mark the aarch64 and ppc64-s390x CFI jobs as manual (Thomas Huth)
db1e119238: gitlab-ci.d/buildtest: Disable iotests 197 and 215 (Thomas Huth)
c217fd8e36: gitlab-ci: Fix 'when:' condition in OpenSBI jobs (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
59e8b62b22: gitlab-ci: Fix 'when:' condition in EDK2 jobs (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
d3a4e41da2: gitlab-ci: Fix 'when:' condition in acceptance_test_job_template (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
9ada9fd259: docs: Document GitLab custom CI/CD variables (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
380e49297c: kvm: ppc: Print meaningful message on KVM_CREATE_VM failure (Fabiano Rosas)
14c7e06e72: ppc/vof: Fix Coverity issues (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
2d1154bd95: target/ppc: Ease L=0 requirement on cmp/cmpi/cmpl/cmpli for ppc32 (Matheus Ferst)
793abe24aa: i2c/smbus_eeprom: Add feature bit to SPD data (BALATON Zoltan)
6ebc0048dd: ppc/pegasos2: Fix spurious warning with -bios (BALATON Zoltan)
3e61a13af3: vl: Don't continue after -smp help. (Markus Armbruster)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.1.0-rc2 is now available

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 04/08/2021 19:05, Michael Roth wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
> third release candidate for the QEMU 6.1 release.  This release is meant
> for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.
> 
>    http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc2.tar.xz
>    http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig
> 
> You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 6.1 release by testing this
> release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:
> 
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/

Since the project is moving away from reporting bugs on Launchpad, are you able to 
update the text template to point to the issue tracker on gitlab instead?

     https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues

> The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
> candidates, are available at:
> 
>    http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/6.1
> 
> Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 6.1 release below:
> 
>    http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.1
> 
> Thank you to everyone involved!


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.1.0-rc2 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Quoting Mark Cave-Ayland (2021-08-04 13:37:43)
> On 04/08/2021 19:05, Michael Roth wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
> > third release candidate for the QEMU 6.1 release.  This release is meant
> > for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.
> > 
> >    http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc2.tar.xz
> >    http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig
> > 
> > You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 6.1 release by testing this
> > release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:
> > 
> >    https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
> 
> Since the project is moving away from reporting bugs on Launchpad, are you able to 
> update the text template to point to the issue tracker on gitlab instead?
> 
>      https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues

Certainly! Thanks for the suggestion.

> 
> > The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
> > candidates, are available at:
> > 
> >    http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/6.1
> > 
> > Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 6.1 release below:
> > 
> >    http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.1
> > 
> > Thank you to everyone involved!
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
>