[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.9.0-rc4 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fifth release candidate for the QEMU 2.9 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.9.0-rc4.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.9.0-rc4.tar.xz.sig

A note from the maintainer:

  This is intended to be the final release candidate for v2.9.0, and
  unless any showstopper bugs are reported we plan to cut the final
  release next week on the 18th April.

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.9 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/2.9

The dates have all been pushed back a week due to delays with the
initial RC.

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.9 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.9

Changes since rc3:

372b3fe: Update version for v2.9.0-rc4 release (Peter Maydell)
e3e0003: block/io: Comment out permission assertions (Max Reitz)
5eceb01: sheepdog: Fix crash in co_read_response() (Kevin Wolf)
2ec9a78: iscsi: Fix iscsi_create (Fam Zheng)
1606e4c: throttle: Remove block from group on hot-unplug (Eric Blake)
7a9e511: block: pass the right options for BlockDriver.bdrv_open() (Dong Jia 
Shi)
76296df: sheepdog: Use bdrv_coroutine_enter before BDRV_POLL_WHILE (Fam Zheng)
49ca625: block: Fix bdrv_co_flush early return (Fam Zheng)
e92f0e1: block: Use bdrv_coroutine_enter to start I/O coroutines (Fam Zheng)
324ec3e: qemu-io-cmds: Use bdrv_coroutine_enter (Fam Zheng)
aef4278: blockjob: Use bdrv_coroutine_enter to start coroutine (Fam Zheng)
052a757: block: Introduce bdrv_coroutine_enter (Fam Zheng)
8865852: async: Introduce aio_co_enter (Fam Zheng)
ba9e75c: coroutine: Extract qemu_aio_coroutine_enter (Fam Zheng)
d90fce9: tests/block-job-txn: Don't start block job before adding to txn (Fam 
Zheng)
aabf591: block: Quiesce old aio context during bdrv_set_aio_context (Fam Zheng)
14e9559: block: Make bdrv_parent_drained_begin/end public (Fam Zheng)
86dbcdd: qxl: add migration blocker to avoid pre-save assert (Gerd Hoffmann)
ad04d8c: configure: on Windows minimum glib version must be 2.30 (Peter Maydell)
982263c: replay: assert time only goes forward (Alex Bennée)
1d05906: cpus: call cpu_update_icount on read (Alex Bennée)
eda5f7c: cpu-exec: update icount after each TB_EXIT (Alex Bennée)
512d3c8: cpus: introduce cpu_update_icount helper (Alex Bennée)
e4cd965: cpus: don't credit executed instructions before they have run (Alex 
Bennée)
0524838: cpus: move icount preparation out of tcg_exec_cpu (Alex Bennée)
243c5f7: cpus: check cpu->running in cpu_get_icount_raw() (Alex Bennée)
bf51c72: cpus: remove icount handling from qemu_tcg_cpu_thread_fn (Alex Bennée)
b4e79a5: target/i386/misc_helper: wrap BQL around another IRQ generator (Alex 
Bennée)
8695350: cpus: fix wrong define name (Nikunj A Dadhania)
4ffcdef: 9pfs: xattr: fix memory leak in v9fs_list_xattr (Li Qiang)
8037fa5: scripts/qemugdb/mtree.py: fix up mtree dump (Alex Bennée)
19dd29e: mirror: Fix aio context of mirror_top_bs (Fam Zheng)
bb2614e: block: Assert attached child node has right aio context (Fam Zheng)
c26a5ab: block: Fix unpaired aio_disable_external in external snapshot (Fam 
Zheng)
1bf03e6: block: Don't check permissions for copy on read (Kevin Wolf)
89aa046: qemu-img: img_create does not support image-opts, fix docs (Jeff Cody)
5694923: iotests: Add mirror tests for orphaned source (Max Reitz)
7a25fcd: block/mirror: Fix use-after-free (Max Reitz)
0d0676a: commit: Set commit_top_bs->total_sectors (Kevin Wolf)
02be4ae: commit: Set commit_top_bs->aio_context (Kevin Wolf)
d35ff5e: block: Ignore guest dev permissions during incoming migration (Kevin 
Wolf)
a703d3a: qxl: switch display on entering VGA (Marc-André Lureau)
8f419c5: vfio/pci-quirks: Exclude non-ioport BAR from NVIDIA quirk (Alex 
Williamson)
8c9f42f: tco: do not generate an NMI (Paolo Bonzini)