[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.4.0-rc1 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
second release candidate for the QEMU 2.4 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.4.0-rc1.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.4 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.4 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.4

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.4 release below:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.4

Changes since 2.4.0-rc0:

b4329bf: Update version for v2.4.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
d3462e3: crypto: avoid undefined behavior in nettle calls (Radim Krčmář)
becaeb7: crypto: fix build with nettle >= 3.0.0 (Radim Krčmář)
c6742b1: memory: fix refcount leak in memory_region_present (Paolo Bonzini)
24b41d6: RDMA: Fix error exits (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
5348c62: arm/xlnx-zynqmp: fix memory leak (Gonglei)
586d214: ppc/spapr_drc: fix memory leak (Gonglei)
02dae26: mips/kvm: Sign extend registers written to KVM (James Hogan)
f8b3e48: mips/kvm: Fix Big endian 32-bit register access (James Hogan)
567161f: qxl: allow to specify head limit to qxl driver (Frediano Ziglio)
3046bb5: target-i386: emulate CPUID level of real hardware (Radim Krčmář)
d461a44: target-i386: Don't strdup() alias property name (Eduardo Habkost)
672558d: numa: Fix memory leak in numa_set_mem_node_id() (Bharata B Rao)
76e2aef: hw/arm/boot: Increase fdt alignment (Alexander Graf)
e46e1a7: target-arm: Fix broken SCTLR_EL3 reset (Peter Maydell)
908680c: target-mips: fix page fault address for LWL/LWR/LDL/LDR (Aurelien 
Jarno)
f01a361: linux-user: Fix MIPS N64 trap and break instruction bug (Andrew 
Bennett)
26e7e98: target-mips: fix resource leak reported by Coverity (Leon Alrae)
47ada0a: target-mips: fix logically dead code reported by Coverity (Leon Alrae)
fe87c2b: target-mips: correct DERET instruction (Leon Alrae)
6a973e6: target-mips: fix ASID synchronisation for MIPS MT (Aurelien Jarno)
6b9c26f: disas/mips: fix disassembling R6 instructions (Yongbok Kim)
d4f4f0d: target-mips: fix to clear MSACSR.Cause (Yongbok Kim)
4dc89b7: target-mips: fix MIPS64R6-generic configuration (Yongbok Kim)
560d027: migration: We also want to store the global state for savevm (Juan 
Quintela)
9f5f380: migration: reduce the count of strlen call (Liang Li)
48212d8: migration: Register global state section before loadvm (Juan Quintela)
72e72e1: migration: Write documetation for events capabilites (Juan Quintela)
4ba4bc5: migration: Trace event and migration event are different things (Juan 
Quintela)
172c435: migration: Only change state after migration has finished (Juan 
Quintela)
796a060: block/curl: Don't lose original error when a connection fails. 
(Richard W.M. Jones)
48ac0a4: mirror: correct buf_size (Wen Congyang)
17d9716: block: keep bitmap if incremental backup job is cancelled (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
299bf09: blockdev: no need to drain in qmp_block_commit (Paolo Bonzini)
4c0cbd6: block/mirror: Sleep periodically during bitmap scanning (Fam Zheng)
2af9170: s390/virtio-ccw: Fix migration (Christian Borntraeger)
0c7322c: watchdog/diag288: correctly register for system reset requests (Xu 
Wang)
e34d8f2: rbd: fix ceph settings precedence (Josh Durgin)
99a3c89: rbd: make qemu's cache setting override any ceph setting (Josh Durgin)
5a8ac6d: MAINTAINERS: update email address (Josh Durgin)
3dbf00e: rbd: remove unused constants and fields (Josh Durgin)
80a1e13: block: Fix backing file child when modifying graph (Kevin Wolf)
9a7dedb: block: Reorder cleanups in bdrv_close() (Kevin Wolf)
33a6040: block: Introduce bdrv_unref_child() (Kevin Wolf)
b4b059f: block: Introduce bdrv_open_child() (Kevin Wolf)
df58179: block: Move bdrv_attach_child() calls up the call chain (Kevin Wolf)
30349fd: nvme: properly report volatile write caches (Christoph Hellwig)
8b9d74e: nvme: implement the Flush command (Christoph Hellwig)
a169513: vnc: fix vnc client authentication (Wolfgang Bumiller)
4421c6a: pc: fix reuse of pc-i440fx-2.4 in pc-i440fx-2.3 (Eduardo Habkost)
06c4670: Revert "virtio-net: enable virtio 1.0" (Jason Wang)
2a63912: virtio-pci: don't crash on illegal length (Michael S. Tsirkin)
8aedc36: qdev: fix 64 bit properties (Cornelia Huck)
6e3c0c6: tci: Fix regression with INDEX_op_qemu_st_i32, INDEX_op_qemu_st_i64 
(Stefan Weil)