[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.1.0-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 2.1 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.1.0-rc2.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.1 release is available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.1

The following changes have been made since v2.1.0-rc1:

5a73480: Update version for v2.1.0-rc2 release (Peter Maydell)
82172b7: tests/Makefile: Only run vhost-user-test on Linux (Peter Maydell)
27e2778: sPAPR/IOMMU: Fix TCE entry permission (Gavin Shan)
f92f5da: spapr: Enable use of huge pages (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
658fa66: spapr: Move RMA memory region registration code (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
e938ba0: ppc: memory: Replace memory_region_init_ram with 
memory_region_allocate_system_memory (Shreyas B. Prabhu)
063cac5: target-ppc: Fix number of threads per core limit (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
b545f63: linux-user: use TARGET_SA_ONSTACK in get_sigframe (Riku Voipio)
5b2ffbe: virtio-blk: dataplane: notify guest as a batch (Ming Lei)
e926d9b: virtio-blk: data-plane: fix save/set .complete_request in start (Ming 
Lei)
a1abf40: linux-aio: Fix laio resource leak (Gonglei)
2dd08df: alloca one extra byte sockets (Joakim Tjernlund)
33a29b5: linux-user: handle AF_PACKET sockaddrs in target_to_host_sockaddr 
(Joakim Tjernlund)
451aaf6: qemu-user: Impl. setsockopt(SO_BINDTODEVICE) (Joakim Tjernlund)
27a0782: SIOCGIFINDEX: fix typo (Joakim Tjernlund)
0e16297: libqos: Fix PC PCI endianness glitches (Andreas Färber)
7497bce: serial-pci: remove memory regions from BAR before destroying them 
(Paolo Bonzini)
1f4e6a0: virtio-scsi: fix with -M pc-i440fx-2.0 (Paolo Bonzini)
f702e62: serial: change retry logic to avoid concurrency (Kirill Batuzov)
7b3621f: qemu-char: fix deadlock with "-monitor pty" (Paolo Bonzini)
58ac321: ide: Treat read/write beyond end as invalid (Markus Armbruster)
3c2daac: virtio-blk: Treat read/write beyond end as invalid (Markus Armbruster)
42e38c1: virtio-blk: Bypass error action and I/O accounting on invalid r/w 
(Markus Armbruster)
d0e1437: virtio-blk: Factor common checks out of virtio_blk_handle_read/write() 
(Markus Armbruster)
58f423f: dma-helpers: Fix too long qiov (Kevin Wolf)
80504dc: qtest: fix vhost-user-test compilation with old GLib (Nikolay Nikolaev)
b886424: tests: Fix unterminated string output visitor enum human string 
(Andreas Färber)
acfb23a: AioContext: do not rely on aio_poll(ctx, true) result to end a loop 
(Paolo Bonzini)
f897bf7: virtio-blk: embed VirtQueueElement in VirtIOBlockReq (Stefan Hajnoczi)
869d66a: virtio-blk: avoid g_slice_new0() for VirtIOBlockReq and 
VirtQueueElement (Stefan Hajnoczi)
abd7642: dataplane: do not free VirtQueueElement in vring_push() (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
0a21ea3: virtio-blk: avoid dataplane VirtIOBlockReq early free (Stefan Hajnoczi)
8eb029c: block: Assert qiov length matches request length (Kevin Wolf)
f06ee3d: qed: Make qiov match request size until backing file EOF (Kevin Wolf)
44deba5: qcow2: Make qiov match request size until backing file EOF (Kevin Wolf)
33f461e: block: Make qiov match the request size until EOF (Kevin Wolf)
2039511: scsi: Report error when lun number is in use (Fam Zheng)
85ad623: s390x/kvm: synchronize guest floating point registers (Jason J. Herne)
13d5412: mtp: linux guest detection fix. (Gerd Hoffmann)
e72b59f: ui/gtk: Restore keyboard focus after Page change (John Snow)
d16136d: cirrus: Fix host CPU blits (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
e8ee4b6: cirrus: Fix build of debug code (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
f61d82c: cirrus_vga: adding sanity check for vram size (Gonglei)
b1ea7b7: spice: auth fixes (Gerd Hoffmann)
0a58991: qtest: fix vhost-user-test compilation with old GLib (Nikolay Nikolaev)
13c0cba: mc146818rtc: register the clock reset notifier on the right clock 
(Paolo Bonzini)
b7bf8f5: oslib-posix: Fix new compiler error with -Wclobbered (Stefan Weil)
8248c36: target-i386: Add "kvmclock-stable-bit" feature bit name (Eduardo 
Habkost)
3b463a3: Enforce stack protector usage (Miroslav Rezanina)
9e99c5f: tests: Fix unterminated string output visitor enum human string 
(Andreas Färber)
30e5210: watchdog: fix deadlock with -watchdog-action pause (Paolo Bonzini)
f7f1524: mips_malta: Catch kernels linked at wrong address (James Hogan)
fbdb1d9: mips_malta: Remove incorrect KVM T&E references (James Hogan)
0e928b1: mips/kvm: Disable FPU on reset with KVM (James Hogan)
0ceb849: AioContext: speed up aio_notify (Paolo Bonzini)
ef508f4: test-aio: fix GSource-based timer test (Paolo Bonzini)
87f68d3: block: drop aio functions that operate on the main AioContext (Paolo 
Bonzini)
b47ec2c: block: prefer aio_poll to qemu_aio_wait (Paolo Bonzini)
01fb270: block: Fix bdrv_is_allocated() return value (Kevin Wolf)
d40593d: block/backup: Fix hang for unaligned image size (Kevin Wolf)
0a2672b: mips/kvm: Init EBase to correct KSEG0 (James Hogan)