[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.1.0-rc2 is now available

[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.1.0-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 8.1 release. This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.1.0-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.1.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 8.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs using our GitLab issue tracker:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/8#tab-issues

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

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/8.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 8.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/8.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc1:

9ba37026fc: Update version for v8.1.0-rc2 release (Richard Henderson)
2b3edd9518: MAINTAINERS: Add section "Migration dirty limit and dirty page rate" (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
ef96537732: qapi: Craft the dirty-limit capability comment (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
8abc81150f: qapi: Reformat the dirty-limit migration doc comments (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
8caaae7319: target/m68k: Fix semihost lseek offset computation (Peter Maydell)
71e2dd6aa1: target/nios2: Fix semihost lseek offset computation (Keith Packard)
c11d5bdae7: target/nios2: Pass semihosting arg to exit (Keith Packard)
7a06a8fec9: tests/migration: Add -fno-stack-protector (Akihiko Odaki)
313e162951: misc: Fix some typos in documentation and comments (Stefan Weil)
7b4a3f8145: ui/dbus: fix clang compilation issue (Marc-André Lureau)
866b24e4c3: ui/dbus: fix win32 compilation when !opengl (Marc-Andre Lureau)
75a87af9b2: hw/xen: prevent guest from binding loopback event channel to itself (David Woodhouse)
19c417ec87: i386/xen: consistent locking around Xen singleshot timers (David Woodhouse)
cf885b1957: hw/xen: fix off-by-one in xen_evtchn_set_gsi() (David Woodhouse)
10be627d2b: io: remove io watch if TLS channel is closed during handshake (Daniel P. Berrangé)
856ca10f9c: xen-platform: do full PCI reset during unplug of IDE devices (Olaf Hering)
bcb40db010: xen: Don't pass MemoryListener around by value (Peter Maydell)
f4f71363fc: thread-pool: signal "request_cond" while locked (Anthony PERARD)
aa36243514: xen-block: Avoid leaks on new error path (Anthony PERARD)
ace33a0e5a: hw/xen: Clarify (lack of) error handling in transaction_commit() (David Woodhouse)
8b94ec53f3: target/s390x: Move trans_exc_code update to do_program_interrupt (Richard Henderson)
38dd78c41e: linux-user/armeb: Fix __kernel_cmpxchg() for armeb (Helge Deller)
2e718e6657: target/ppc: Disable goto_tb with architectural singlestep (Richard Henderson)
0f2f3247d4: bsd-user: Specify host page alignment if none specified (Warner Losh)
28b61d49ac: bsd-user: Allocate guest virtual address space (Richard Henderson)
ad17868eb1: accel/tcg: Clear tcg_ctx->gen_tb on buffer overflow (Richard Henderson)
79e29851bf: util/interval-tree: Use qatomic_read/set for rb_parent_color (Richard Henderson)
d37a259fa4: util/interval-tree: Introduce pc_parent (Richard Henderson)
4c8baa02d3: util/interval-tree: Use qatomic_set_mb in rb_link_node (Richard Henderson)
055b86e0f0: util/interval-tree: Use qatomic_read for left/right while searching (Richard Henderson)
108e8180c6: gdbstub: Fix client Ctrl-C handling (Nicholas Piggin)
fe6bda58e0: kvm: Fix crash due to access uninitialized kvm_state (Gavin Shan)
71054f72f1: target/arm/tcg: Don't build AArch64 decodetree files for qemu-system-arm (Peter Maydell)
2b0d656ab6: target/arm: Avoid writing to constant TCGv in trans_CSEL() (Peter Maydell)
548b8edc6d: elf2dmp: Don't abandon when Prcb is set to 0 (Akihiko Odaki)
638511e992: target/arm: Fix MemOp for STGP (Richard Henderson)
c1e244b655: hw/nvme: use stl/ldl pci dma api (Klaus Jensen)
1c38fe69e2: block/blkio: use blkio_set_int("fd") to check fd support (Stefano Garzarella)
723bea27b1: block/blkio: fall back on using `path` when `fd` setting fails (Stefano Garzarella)
809c319f8a: block/blkio: retry blkio_connect() if it fails using `fd` (Stefano Garzarella)
69785d66ae: block/blkio: move blkio_connect() in the drivers functions (Stefano Garzarella)
ef256751e9: block: Fix pad_request's request restriction (Hanna Czenczek)
29a242e165: block/file-posix: fix g_file_get_contents return path (Sam Li)
e5b815b0de: qemu-nbd: regression with arguments passing into nbd_client_thread() (Denis V. Lunev)
a5942c177b: block/blkio: do not use open flags in qemu_open() (Stefano Garzarella)
9e272073e1: qapi: Reformat recent doc comments to conform to current conventions (Markus Armbruster)
e27a9d628d: qapi/trace: Tidy up trace-event-get-state, -set-state documentation (Markus Armbruster)
a9c72efd6d: qapi/qdev: Tidy up device_add documentation (Markus Armbruster)
e893b9e3b3: qapi/block: Tidy up block-latency-histogram-set documentation (Markus Armbruster)
dad3c9565d: qapi/block-core: Tidy up BlockLatencyHistogramInfo documentation (Markus Armbruster)
697c4c86ab: migration/rdma: Split qemu_fopen_rdma() into input/output functions (Juan Quintela)
ac6f48e15d: qemu-file: Make qemu_file_get_error_obj() static (Juan Quintela)
8c5ee0bfb8: qemu-file: Simplify qemu_file_shutdown() (Juan Quintela)
9ccf83f486: qemu_file: Make qemu_file_is_writable() static (Juan Quintela)
cf786549ce: migration: Change qemu_file_transferred to noflush (Juan Quintela)
fc95c63b60: qemu-file: Rename qemu_file_transferred_ fast -> noflush (Juan Quintela)
06c48d6b37: qtest/migration-tests.c: use "-incoming defer" for postcopy tests (Wei Wang)
82137e6c8c: migration: enforce multifd and postcopy preempt to be set before incoming (Wei Wang)
908927db28: migration: Update error description whenever migration fails (Tejus GK)
f014880ab9: docs/migration: Update postcopy bits (Peter Xu)
7b24d32634: migration: skipped field is really obsolete. (Juan Quintela)
bc28a6111d: migration-test: machine_opts is really arch specific (Juan Quintela)
832c732c5d: migration-test: Create arch_opts (Juan Quintela)
42e52a8a77: migration-test: Make machine_opts regular with other options (Juan Quintela)
e3131dc76a: migration-test: Be consistent for ppc (Juan Quintela)
15699cf542: migration: Extend query-migrate to provide dirty page limit info (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
acac51ba24: migration: Implement dirty-limit convergence algo (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
310ad5625e: migration: Put the detection logic before auto-converge checking (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
bb9993c672: migration: Refactor auto-converge capability logic (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
dc62395557: migration: Introduce dirty-limit capability (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
09f9ec9913: qapi/migration: Introduce vcpu-dirty-limit parameters (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
4d80785719: qapi/migration: Introduce x-vcpu-dirty-limit-period parameter (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
140e5a7632: softmmu/dirtylimit: Add parameter check for hmp "set_vcpu_dirty_limit" (Hyman Huang(黄勇))
01ec0f3a92: migration/multifd: Protect accesses to migration_threads (Fabiano Rosas)
788fa68041: migration/multifd: Rename threadinfo.c functions (Fabiano Rosas)
9359c45988: block/blkio: enable the completion eventfd (Stefano Garzarella)
0e6b20b965: hw/usb/canokey: change license to GPLv2+ (Hongren (Zenithal) Zheng)
55a01cab83: crypto: Always initialize splitkeylen (Akihiko Odaki)