[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.6.0-rc3 is now available

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fourth release candidate for the QEMU 1.6 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.6.0-rc3.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.6 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 1.6 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.6

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 1.6 release below:

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

The following changes have been made since v1.6.0-rc2:

 - pc: drop external DSDT loading (Anthony Liguori)
 - hw/misc: make pvpanic known to user (Marcel Apfelbaum)
 - hw/misc: don't create pvpanic device by default (Marcel Apfelbaum)
 - pc: Remove PCLMULQDQ from Westmere on pc-*-1.4 and older (Eduardo Habkost)
 - rdma: remaining documentation fixes (Michael R. Hines)
 - rdma: IPv6 over Ethernet (RoCE) is broken in linux - workaround (Michael R. 
Hines)
 - rdma: proper getaddrinfo() handling (Michael R. Hines)
 - rdma: check if RDMAControlHeader::len match transferred byte (Isaku Yamahata)
 - rdma: validate RDMAControlHeader::len (Isaku Yamahata)
 - rdma: use resp.len after validation in qemu_rdma_registration_stop (Isaku 
Yamahata)
 - pc_sysfw: do not make it a device anymore (Paolo Bonzini)
 - pc_sysfw: remove the rom_only property (Paolo Bonzini)
 - sysfw: remove read-only pc_sysfw_flash_vs_rom_bug_compatible (Paolo Bonzini)
 - w32: Add missing version.o to all executables (fix regression) (Stefan Weil)
 - qemu-option: Guard against qemu_opts_set_defaults() misuse (Markus 
Armbruster)
 - LICENSE: clarify (Paolo Bonzini)
 - raw: add license header (Paolo Bonzini)
 - hw/virtio/virtio-mmio: Make QueueNumMax read 0 for unavailable queues (Peter 
Maydell)
 - vhost: clear signalled_used_valid on vhost stop (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - virtio: clear signalled_used_valid when switching from dataplane (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
 - i82801b11: Fix i82801b11 PCI host bridge config space (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - pc: disable pci-info for 1.6 (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - block: Bugfix 'format' and 'snapshot' used in drive option (Mike Qiu)
 - hw/virtio/virtio: Don't allow guests to add/remove queues (Peter Maydell)
 - mips: revert commit b332d24a8e1290954029814d09156b06ede358e2 (Aurelien Jarno)
 - tcg/mips: fix invalid op definition errors (James Hogan)
 - dump: rebase from host-private RAMBlock offsets to guest-physical addresses 
(Laszlo Ersek)
 - dump: populate guest_phys_blocks (Laszlo Ersek)
 - dump: introduce GuestPhysBlockList (Laszlo Ersek)
 - dump: clamp guest-provided mapping lengths to ramblock sizes (Laszlo Ersek)
 - xhci: implement warm port reset (Gerd Hoffmann)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori