Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc3

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/28/2011 04:59 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 28.11.2011 23:32, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
> > QEMU 1.0, release candidate 4.  This is the forth and hopefully last
> > release candidate for the 1.0 release. This is not intended for
> > production use but rather for testing.
> >
> > To participate in the testing effort, please read the Testing Wiki[1]
> > and sign up to test a subsystem.  Any problems should be reported on
> > Launchpad[2] or qemu-devel.
> >
> > If you've contributed to the 1.0 release, please take a moment and
> > update the Changelog[3] so we can have a high quality change log for the
> > release.
> >
> > The full release schedule[4] is also available on the wiki.
> >
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.0-rc4.tar.gz
> >
> > Known Issues:
> >
> >   - None!
>
> Apart from the subject being wrong again ;), we all know this is a lie:
>
> ARM host and Darwin host are known broken.
>
> Please note that for the final Release Notes.

My choice of wording was poor.  The section should be "known issues to be fixed 
before release".

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Andreas
>
> > Please note, this release contains a fix for a CVE vulnerability in the
> > usb-ccid device.  Please make sure that you are using at least this
> > version if you use the usb-ccid device.
> >
> > Changelog since v1.0-rc3
> >
> >   - ccid: Fix buffer overrun in handling of VSC_ATR message (Markus
> > Armbruster)
> >   - Revert "fix out of tree build" (Anthony Liguori)
> >   - configure: avoid screening of --{en, dis}able-usb-redir options (Max
> > Filippov)
> >   - cutils: Make strtosz&  friends leave follow set to callers (Markus
> > Armbruster)
> >   - qemu-img: Tighten parsing of size arguments (Markus Armbruster)
> >   - x86/cpuid: Tighten parsing of tsc_freq=FREQ (Markus Armbruster)
> >   - vl: Tighten parsing of -m argument (Markus Armbruster)
> >   - vl: Tighten parsing of -numa's parameter mem (Markus Armbruster)
> >   - cutils: Drop broken support for zero strtosz default_suffix (Markus
> > Armbruster)
> >   - configure: tighten pie toolchain support test for tls variables (Avi
> > Kivity)
> >   - usb-redir: Don't try to write to the chardev after a close event
> > (Hans de Goede)
> >   - usb-redir: Device disconnect + re-connect robustness fixes (Hans de
> > Goede)
> >   - usb-redir: Call qemu_chr_fe_open/close (Hans de Goede)
> >   - spice-qemu-char: Generate chardev open/close events (Hans de Goede)
> >   - qemu-char: rename qemu_chr_event to qemu_chr_be_event and make it
> > public (Hans de Goede)
> >   - 9pfs: improve portability to older systems (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
> >   - tci: Make flush_icache_range() inline (Stefan Weil)
> >   - eepro100: Fix alignment requirement for statistical counters (Stefan
> > Weil)
> >   - virtio: add and use virtio_set_features (Paolo Bonzini)
> >   - 9pfs: improve portability to older systems (Paolo Bonzini)
> >   - Revert "i386: derive '-cpu host' from KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID"
> > (Anthony Liguori)
> >   - tci: Add entry to MAINTAINERS (Stefan Weil)
> >   - MAINTAINERS: add checkpatch (Blue Swirl)
> >   - checkpatch.pl: fix CAST detection (Florian Mickler)
> >   - target-xtensa: fix MMUv3 initialization (Max Filippov)
> >   - usb-host: add usb_host_do_reset function. (Gerd Hoffmann)
> >   - vpc: Add missing error handling in alloc_block (Kevin Wolf)
> >   - vdi: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
> >   - vvfat: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
> >   - vpc: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
> >   - vmdk: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
> >   - vdi: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
> >   - qcow: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
> >   - usb-ehci: add register names (Gerd Hoffmann)
> >   - usb-ehci: codestyle fixups (Gerd Hoffmann)
> >   - usb-hub: implement reset (Gerd Hoffmann)
> >   - fix out of tree build (Stefano Stabellini)
> >   - rtl8139: Fix invalid IO access alignment (Julian Pidancet)
> >   - usb-hub: wakeup on detach too. (Gerd Hoffmann)
> >   - usb: fix usb_qdev_init error handling. (Gerd Hoffmann)
> >   - usb: make usb_create_simple catch and pass up errors. (Gerd Hoffmann)
> >   - slirp: Clean up net_slirp_hostfwd_remove()'s use of get_str_sep()
> > (Markus Armbruster)
> >   - sheepdog: Avoid deadlock in error path (Dong Xu Wang)
> >   - scsi-generic: add as boot device (Paolo Bonzini)
> >   - scsi: fix fw path (Paolo Bonzini)
> >   - usb-msd: do not register twice in the boot order (Paolo Bonzini)
> >   - virtio-blk: fix cross-endian config space (Paolo Bonzini)
> >
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0/Testing
> > [2] http://wiki.qemu.org/ReportABug
> > [3] http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next
> > [4] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori