[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.0-rc1 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
second release candidate for the QEMU 2.5 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.5.0-rc1.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.5 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.5 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.5 release below:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.5

Changes since rc0:

541abd1: Update version for v2.5.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
f348daf: tests: fix cdrom_pio_impl in ide-test (Peter Lieven)
9f4aa7c: MAINTAINERS: Add check-qom-{interface,proplist} to QOM (Andreas Färber)
8438a13: qom: Clean up assertions to display values on failure (Andreas Färber)
b604a85: qom: Replace object property list with GHashTable (Pavel Fedin)
1c7ba94: exec: silence hugetlbfs warning under qtest (Marc-André Lureau)
421f444: tests: re-enable vhost-user-test (Marc-André Lureau)
d9a3b33: acpi: fix buffer overrun on migration (Michael S. Tsirkin)
ce8a1b5: target-arm: Update condexec before arch BP check in AA32 translation 
(Sergey Fedorov)
43bfa4a: target-arm: Update condexec before CP access check in AA32 translation 
(Sergey Fedorov)
a859595: hw/arm_gic: Correctly restore nested irq priority (François Baldassari)
79b3c12: migration: normalize locking in migration/savevm.c (Denis V. Lunev)
7cb1448: migration: implement bdrv_all_find_vmstate_bs helper (Denis V. Lunev)
0b46160: migration: reorder processing in hmp_savevm (Denis V. Lunev)
a9085f9: snapshot: create bdrv_all_create_snapshot helper (Denis V. Lunev)
c6258b0: migration: drop find_vmstate_bs check in hmp_delvm (Denis V. Lunev)
723ccda: snapshot: create bdrv_all_find_snapshot helper (Denis V. Lunev)
849f96e: migration: factor our snapshottability check in load_vmstate (Denis V. 
Lunev)
4c1cdba: snapshot: create bdrv_all_goto_snapshot helper (Denis V. Lunev)
9b00ea3: snapshot: create bdrv_all_delete_snapshot helper (Denis V. Lunev)
25af925: snapshot: return error code from bdrv_snapshot_delete_by_id_or_name 
(Denis V. Lunev)
e9ff957: snapshot: create helper to test that block drivers supports snapshots 
(Denis V. Lunev)
5df5416: Unneeded NULL check (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
95a7788: migration: Dead assignment of current_time (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
84e7b80: Set last_sent_block (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
8c4d156: qom: Add a test case for complex property finalization (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
456fb0b: net: Convert net filter code to use object property iterators (Daniel 
P. Berrange)
9a842f7: ppc: Convert spapr code to use object property iterators (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
2465bc5: vl: Convert machine help code to use object property iterators (Daniel 
P. Berrange)
1b30c09: qmp: Convert QMP code to use object property iterators (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
a00c948: qom: Introduce ObjectPropertyIterator struct for iteration (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
3b6ca40: qdev: Change Property::offset field to ptrdiff_t type (Ildar Isaev)
48854f5: vhost-user: fix log size (Michael S. Tsirkin)
72018d1: vhost-user: ignore qemu-only features (Michael S. Tsirkin)
08cb175: crypto: avoid passing NULL to access() syscall (Daniel P. Berrange)
4ad6f3d: block: Call external_snapshot_clean after blockdev-snapshot (Alberto 
Garcia)
0702d3d: blockdev: Add missing bdrv_unref() in drive-backup (Max Reitz)
7b35030: crypto: fix leaks in TLS x509 helper functions (Daniel P. Berrange)
6ef8cd7: crypto: fix mistaken setting of Error in success code path (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
61b9251: crypto: fix leak of gnutls_dh_params_t data on credential unload 
(Daniel P. Berrange)
0180919: iotests: fix race in 030 (John Snow)
a184e74: nand: fix address overflow (Rabin Vincent)
ab59e3e: makefile: fix w32 install target for qemu-ga (Michael Roth)
0be4083: qga: allow to lookup in PATH from the passed envp for guest-exec (Yuri 
Pudgorodskiy)
02a4d82: qga: fix for default env processing for guest-exec (Yuri Pudgorodskiy)
d66a8fa: ide: enable buffered requests for PIO read requests (Peter Lieven)
02506b2: ide: enable buffered requests for ATAPI devices (Peter Lieven)
7cda620: ide: orphan all buffered requests on DMA cancel (Peter Lieven)
1d8c11d: ide: add support for IDEBufferedRequest (Peter Lieven)
ca78ecf: block: add blk_abort_aio_request (Peter Lieven)
5f81724: ide/atapi: make PIO read requests async (Peter Lieven)
33b5e8c: target-i386: Disable rdtscp on Opteron_G* CPU models (Eduardo Habkost)
9ecac5d: target-i386: Fix mulx for identical target regs (Richard Henderson)
7ebcfe5: specs/vhost-user: fix spec to match reality (Michael S. Tsirkin)
5c93c47: tests/vhost-user-bridge: implement logging of dirty pages (Victor 
Kaplansky)
8d211f6: i440fx: print an error message if user tries to enable iommu (Bandan 
Das)
1f8431f: q35: Check propery to determine if iommu is set (Bandan Das)
10f5a72: virtio-blk: Fix double completion for werror=stop (Fam Zheng)
40119ef: block: make 'stats-interval' an array of ints instead of a string 
(Alberto Garcia)
0ed39f3d: aio-epoll: Fix use-after-free of node (Fam Zheng)
02460c3: disas/arm: avoid clang shifting negative signed warning (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
886ce6f: tpm: avoid clang shifting negative signed warning (Stefan Hajnoczi)
a12e52a: tests: Ignore recent test binaries (Eric Blake)
c4c2daa: docs: update bitmaps.md (John Snow)
513e7cd: input: Document why x-input-send-event is still experimental (Eric 
Blake)
39a65e2: qapi: Document introspection stability considerations (Eric Blake)
dc3db6a: vhost-user: start/stop all rings (Michael S. Tsirkin)
5421f31: vhost-user: print original request on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
87656d5: vhost-user-test: support VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE (Michael S. 
Tsirkin)
a586e65: vhost-user: update spec description (Michael S. Tsirkin)
12b8cba: vhost: don't send RESET_OWNER at stop (Yuanhan Liu)
923e2d9: vhost: let SET_VRING_ENABLE message depends on protocol feature 
(Yuanhan Liu)
ba060c5: seccomp: loosen library version dependency (dann frazier)
693e591: configure: arm/aarch64: allow enable-seccomp (Andrew Jones)
47d2067: seccomp: add cacheflush to whitelist (Andrew Jones)
917158d: qtest/ahci: use raw format when qemu-img is absent (John Snow)
cb11e7b: libqos: add qemu-img presence check (John Snow)
b236b61: qtest/ahci: always specify image format (John Snow)
6d9e729: ahci/qtest: don't use tcp sockets for migration tests (John Snow)
f36aa12: atapi: Prioritize unknown cmd error over BCL error (John Snow)
af0e00d: atapi: add byte_count_limit helper (John Snow)
382e173: vnc: fix mismerge (Gerd Hoffmann)
f14c3d8: buffer: allow a buffer to shrink gracefully (Peter Lieven)
4ec5ba1: buffer: factor out buffer_adj_size (Peter Lieven)
fd95243: buffer: factor out buffer_req_size (Peter Lieven)
c3d6899: vnc: recycle empty vs->output buffer (Peter Lieven)
2e0c90a: vnc: fix local state init (Gerd Hoffmann)
c7628bf: vnc: only alloc server surface with clients connected (Gerd Hoffmann)
f7b3d68: vnc: use vnc_{width,height} in vnc_set_area_dirty (Gerd Hoffmann)
453f842: vnc: factor out vnc_update_server_surface (Gerd Hoffmann)
d05959c: vnc: add vnc_width+vnc_height helpers (Gerd Hoffmann)
e081aae: vnc: zap dead code (Gerd Hoffmann)
d903401: vnc-jobs: move buffer reset, use new buffer move (Gerd Hoffmann)
8305f91: vnc: kill jobs queue buffer (Gerd Hoffmann)
543b958: vnc: attach names to buffers (Gerd Hoffmann)
d2b9071: buffer: add tracing (Gerd Hoffmann)
1ff36b5: buffer: add buffer_shrink (Gerd Hoffmann)
830a958: buffer: add buffer_move (Gerd Hoffmann)
4d1eb5f: buffer: add buffer_move_empty (Gerd Hoffmann)
810082d: buffer: add buffer_init (Gerd Hoffmann)
5c10dbb: buffer: make the Buffer capacity increase in powers of two (Peter 
Lieven)