[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0-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 2.8 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.8.0-rc2.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.8 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/2.8

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.8 release below:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.8

Changes since rc1:

1cd56fd: Update version for v2.8.0-rc2 release (Stefan Hajnoczi)
7ecf44a: rules.mak: Also try -r to build modules (Paolo Bonzini)
6725f88: hbitmap: Fix shifts of constants by granularity (Max Reitz)
c79ed23: configure: fix LTTng UST tracing backend detection (Francis 
Deslauriers)
e514379: xen: ignore direction in bufioreq handling (Jan Beulich)
f37f29d: xen: slightly simplify bufioreq handling (Jan Beulich)
ff3b8b8: xen: fix quad word bufioreq handling (Jan Beulich)
c96f0ee: rules.mak: Use -r instead of -Wl, -r to fix building when PIE is 
default (Adrian Bunk)
f9f885b: migration/pcspk: Turn migration of pcspk off for 2.7 and older (Dr. 
David Alan Gilbert)
04e27c6: migration/pcspk: Add a property to state if pcspk is migrated (Dr. 
David Alan Gilbert)
64e184e: pci-assign: sync MSI/MSI-X cap and table with PCIDevice (Peter Xu)
9e55d58: megasas: clean up and fix request completion/cancellation (Paolo 
Bonzini)
75f19f8: megasas: do not call pci_dma_unmap after having freed the frame once 
(Paolo Bonzini)
b77257d: arm: Create /chosen and /memory devicetree nodes if necessary (Guenter 
Roeck)
6aa3a61: generic-loader: file: Only set a PC if a CPU is specified (Alistair 
Francis)
685479b: target-i386: Remove unused local_err variable (Eduardo Habkost)
8f57758: docs: Specify that cache-clean-interval is only supported in Linux 
(Alberto Garcia)
a8b99dd: qcow2: Remove stale comment (Alberto Garcia)
91203f0: qcow2: Allow 'cache-clean-interval' in Linux only (Alberto Garcia)
2f2c8d6: qcow2: Make qcow2_cache_table_release() work only in Linux (Alberto 
Garcia)
06c3375: Update OpenBIOS images to ef8a14e built from submodule. (Mark 
Cave-Ayland)
4a18cd4: target-m68k: fix muluw/mulsw (Laurent Vivier)
5436c29: target-m68k: Fix cmpa operand size (Laurent Vivier)
c090c97: target-m68k: fix EXG instruction (Laurent Vivier)
7875efb: xen_disk: split discard input to match internal representation (Olaf 
Hering)
898ae90: 9pfs: add cleanup operation for proxy backend driver (Li Qiang)
971f406: 9pfs: add cleanup operation for handle backend driver (Li Qiang)
702dbcc: 9pfs: add cleanup operation in FileOperations (Li Qiang)
4774718: 9pfs: adjust the order of resource cleanup in device unrealize (Li 
Qiang)
5c4537b: spapr: Fix 2.7<->2.8 migration of PCI host bridge (David Gibson)
5a78b82: Revert "spapr: Fix migration of PCI host bridges from qemu-2.7" (David 
Gibson)
146c11f: target-ppc: Allow eventual removal of old migration mistakes (David 
Gibson)
3fed86e: migration: Add VMSTATE_UINTTL_TEST() (David Gibson)
16a2497: target-ppc: Fix CPU migration from qemu-2.6 <-> later versions (David 
Gibson)
39d97e1: ppc: Make uninorth interrupt swizzling identical to Grackle (Benjamin 
Herrenschmidt)
a813fe7: target-ppc: fix index array of national digits (Jose Ricardo Ziviani)
8a273cb: hw/char/spapr_vty: Return amount of free buffer entries in 
vty_can_receive() (Thomas Huth)
0d28aa1: ppc: BOOK3E: nothing should be done when MSR:PR is set (Vladimir 
Svoboda)
62ef376: spapr: migration support for CAS-negotiated option vectors (Michael 
Roth)
171da9d: tests/postcopy: Use KVM on ppc64 only if it is KVM-HV (Thomas Huth)
1d895fe: scsi/esp: do not raise an interrupt when reading the FIFO register 
(Hervé Poussineau)
169407e: nbd: Allow unmap and fua during write zeroes (Eric Blake)
c2a8531: cpu_ldst.h: use correct guest address parameter (Bobby Bingham)
424ad83: target-alpha: Fix interrupt mask for cpu1 (Richard Henderson)