[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.4.0-rc2 is now a vailable

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
third release candidate for the QEMU 1.4 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.4.0-rc2.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.4 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 1.4 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.4

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 1.4 release below:

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

 - Revert "Update OpenBIOS images" (Alexander Graf)
 - cadance_uart: Accept input after rx FIFO pop (Peter Crosthwaite)
 - block/curl: only restrict protocols with libcurl>=7.19.4 (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - qapi: Flatten away ChardevPort (Markus Armbruster)
 - chardev: Fix manual page and qemu-doc for -chardev tty (Markus Armbruster)
 - net: Avoid NULL function pointer dereference on cleanup (Andreas Färber)
 - s390: Fix handling of iscs. (Cornelia Huck)
 - s390: Keep I/O interrupts enabled for all iscs. (Cornelia Huck)
 - s390/sclpconsole: prevent char layer callback during initialization 
(Christian Borntraeger)
 - xilinx.h: s/xilinx_axiethernetdma()/xilinx_axidma() (Peter Crosthwaite)
 - xilinx.h: Dont qdev_create from ethernet_create() (Peter Crosthwaite)
 - block-migration: fix pending() and iterate() return values (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - migration: make qemu_ftell() public and support writable files (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
 - trace: deal with deprecated glib thread functions (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - trace: use glib atomic int types (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - Revert "block/vpc: Fix size calculation" (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - block/raw-posix: detect readonly Linux block devices using BLKROGET (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
 - hw/m25p80.c: add WRSR(0x01) support (Kuo-Jung Su)
 - qapi: Improve chardev-add documentation (Markus Armbruster)
 - migration: restrict scope of incoming fd read handler (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - libi2c-omap: Fix endianness dependency (Andreas Färber)
 - qtest: Use strtoull() for uint64_t (Andreas Färber)
 - libqtest: Fix documentation copy&paste errors (Andreas Färber)
 - block/vpc: Fix size calculation (Stefan Weil)
 - block-migration: fix block_save_iterate() return value (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - block-migration: fix blk_mig_save_dirty_block() return value checking 
(Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - block-migration: improve "Unknown flags" error message (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - vl: Exit unsuccessfully on option argument syntax error (Markus Armbruster)
 - vl: Drop redundant "parse error" reports (Markus Armbruster)
 - qemu-option: Disable two helpful messages that got broken recently (Markus 
Armbruster)
 - error: Strip trailing '\n' from error string arguments (again) (Markus 
Armbruster)
 - error: Clean up abuse of error_report() for help (Markus Armbruster)
 - error: Clean up error strings with embedded newlines (Markus Armbruster)
 - Update OpenBIOS images (Blue Swirl)
 - xilinx_zynq: Fix wrong IRQ number of the second EHCI controller (Liming Wang)
 - block/curl: disable extra protocols to prevent CVE-2013-0249 (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
 - qemu-nbd: document --cache and --aio options (Paolo Bonzini)
 - hw/virtio-net: disable multiqueue by default (Jesse Larrew)
 - hw/virtio-net.c: set config size using host features (Jesse Larrew)
 - virtio-net: pass host features to virtio_net_init (Anthony Liguori)
 - net: fix infinite loop on exit (Michael Roth)
 - tests/test-string-input-visitor: Handle errors provoked by fuzz test (Peter 
Maydell)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori