[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.1-rc3 release

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the third 
release candidate for the QEMU 1.1 release.  This release is meant for testing 
purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.1.0-rc3.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.1 release by testing this release 
and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 1.1 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.1

And a detailed change log is available at:

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

Known Issues:

 - There are no known release blockers in -rc3.

Changes since -rc2:

 - xen: Fix PV-on-HVM (Anthony PERARD)
 - qdev: Fix memory leak (dunrong huang)
 - virtio: check virtio_load return code (Orit Wassermann)
 - virtio-blk: always enable VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI (Paolo Bonzini)
 - virtio-blk: define VirtIOBlkConf (Paolo Bonzini)
 - virtio-blk: blockdev_mark_auto_del is transport-independent (Paolo Bonzini)
 - virtio-blk: report non-zero status when failing SG_IO requests (Paolo 
Bonzini)
 - use an uint64_t for the max_sz parameter in load_image_targphys (Mark 
Langsdorf)
 - tests: Add rtc-test (fix test regression) (Stefan Weil)
 - tests: Fix linker failure for fdc-test (Stefan Weil)
 - mips: Fix BC1ANY[24]F instructions (Richard Sandiford)
 - linux-user: Fix stale tbs after mmap (Alexander Graf)
 - virtio-pci: add missing 'static' (Blue Swirl)
 - sparc64: fix initrd loading (Blue Swirl)
 - audio: split IN_T into two separate constants (Roger Pau Monne)
 - target-microblaze: impelemented swapx instructions (Peter A. G. Crosthwaite)
 - qemu-ga: align versioning with QEMU_VERSION (Michael Roth)
 - qemu-ga: fix segv after failure to open log file (Michael Roth)
 - qemu-ga: guest-shutdown: use only async-signal-safe functions (Luiz 
Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: guest-shutdown: become synchronous (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: guest-suspend: make the API synchronous (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: become_daemon(): reopen standard fds to /dev/null (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: make reopen_fd_to_null() public (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: guest-suspend-hybrid: don't emit a success response (Luiz 
Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: guest-suspend-ram: don't emit a success response (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: guest-suspend-disk: don't emit a success response (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: guest-shutdown: don't emit a success response (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qemu-ga: don't warn on no command return (Luiz Capitulino)
 - qapi: add support for command options (Luiz Capitulino)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori