[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.0-rc3 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fourth release candidate for the QEMU 2.5 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.5.0-rc3.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.5 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.5 release is available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.5 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.5

Major issues fixed in this latest RC can be viewed here:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5#Fixed_in_rc3

This is the last planned RC before the official 2.5.0 release.

Changes since rc2:

c3626ca: Update version for v2.5.0-rc3 release (Peter Maydell)
ba306c7: sd: Mark brittle abuse of blk_attach_dev() FIXME (Markus Armbruster)
79f2170: sdhci: Sanitize "sdhci-pci" properties for future qomification (Markus 
Armbruster)
a616fb7: virtio-blk: Drop x-data-plane option (Fam Zheng)
52b4bb7: lan9118: log and ignore access to invalid registers, rather than 
aborting (Andrew Baumann)
12fdd92: lan9118: fix emulation of MAC address loaded bit in E2P_CMD register 
(Andrew Baumann)
6a9c647: vmxnet3: silence warning (Michael S. Tsirkin)
8b98a2f: pcnet: fix rx buffer overflow(CVE-2015-7512) (Jason Wang)
837f21a: net: pcnet: add check to validate receive data size(CVE-2015-7504) 
(Prasad J Pandit)
9596ef7: e1000: fix hang of win2k12 shutdown with flood ping (Denis V. Lunev)
0d2cd78: qom-test: Fix qmp() leaks (Marc-André Lureau)
041088c: tests: Use proper functions types instead of void (*fn) (Markus 
Armbruster)
9847574: bt: check struct sizes (Paolo Bonzini)
2988cbe: typedefs: Put them back into alphabetical order (Markus Armbruster)
8ea9900: scsi: remove scsi_req_free prototype (Hervé Poussineau)
63fc737: gt64xxx: fix decoding of ISD register (Paolo Bonzini)
fccd35a: configure: use appropriate code fragment for -fstack-protector checks 
(Rodrigo Rebello)
0e1d024: crypto: avoid two coverity false positive error reports (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
0ef74c7: configure: Diagnose broken linkers directly (Peter Maydell)
e0df8f1: bt: avoid unintended sign extension (Paolo Bonzini)
624533e: util/id: fully allocate names table (John Snow)
ab8bf1d: spapr_drc: Change value of property "fdt" from null back to {} (Markus 
Armbruster)
c401ae8: spapr_drc: Make device "spapr-dr-connector" unavailable with -device 
(Markus Armbruster)
c75304a: spapr_drc: Handle visitor errors properly (Markus Armbruster)
70ae0b6: qom: Update documentation comment of struct Object (Cao jin)
b5e62af: tests: Fix check-report-qtest-% target (Andreas Färber)
4c65fed: ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception (Prasad J Pandit)
9cc0f19: iotests: Add regresion test case for write notifier assertion failure 
(Fam Zheng)
78b666f: iotests: Add "add_drive_raw" method (Fam Zheng)
61408b2: block: Don't wait serialising for non-COR read requests (Fam Zheng)
d21e877: iothread: include id in thread name (Paolo Bonzini)
a694ee3: migration: do floating-point division (Paolo Bonzini)
4e39f57: migration: Clean up use of g_poll() in socket_writev_buffer() (Markus 
Armbruster)
7197fb4: util/mmap-alloc: fix hugetlb support on ppc64 (Michael S. Tsirkin)
0560b0e: virtio-pci: Set the QEMU_PCI_CAP_EXPRESS capability early in its 
DeviceClass realize method (Shmulik Ladkani)
11380b3: virtio: handle non-virtio-1-capable backend for ccw (Cornelia Huck)
6d0b908: tests/vhost-user-bridge.c: fix fd leakage (Victor Kaplansky)
b0ae153: vhost: drop dead code (Michael S. Tsirkin)
176c369: mirror: Quiesce source during "mirror_exit" (Fam Zheng)
2087352: blkdebug: silence warning under qtest (Michael S. Tsirkin)
6f6f951: vhost-user: verify that number of queues is non-zero (Victor Kaplansky)
45ce512: vhost-user-test: fix crash with glib < 2.36 (Marc-André Lureau)
a899b1e: vhost-user-test: use unix port for migration (Marc-André Lureau)
9732baf: vhost-user-test: fix chardriver race (Marc-André Lureau)
c2551b4: qcow2: Fix potential qemu-img check crash on 32 bit hosts (Kevin Wolf)
0c2d70c: translate-all: ensure host page mask is always extended with 1's 
(Paolo Bonzini)
21a2430: main-loop: suppress warnings under qtest (Michael S. Tsirkin)
c1f2448: qemu-char: retry g_poll on EINTR (Paolo Bonzini)
55b4e80: exec: Stop using memory after free (Don Slutz)
b17a6d3: tcg: Increase the highwater reservation (Richard Henderson)
8d3a5d9: ui/cocoa.m: Prevent activation clicks from going to guest (Peter 
Maydell)
f0a399d: s390x/pci: fix up IOMMU size (Yi Min Zhao)
567c88c: s390x: no deprecation warning while testing (Cornelia Huck)
07af4c5: pc-bios/s390-ccw: rebuild image (Cornelia Huck)
7619562: pc-bios/s390-ccw: build for z900 (Christian Borntraeger)
ebac120: virtio-9p: use QEMU thread pool (Paolo Bonzini)
49f817c: fsdev-proxy-helper: avoid TOC/TOU race (Paolo Bonzini)
7624789: target-ppc/fpu_helper: fix FPSCR_FX bit shift operation (Madhavan 
Srinivasan)
dbdc13a: target-ppc: Move the FPSCR bit update macros to cpu.h (Madhavan 
Srinivasan)
e2a176d: hw/ppc/ppc405_boards: Fix infinite recursion by converting taihu_cpld 
from old_mmio (Peter Maydell)
9b7a70e: hw/ppc/spapr: Remove duplicated "pseries" alias (Thomas Huth)
7f0d763: mac_dbdma: always initialize channel field in DBDMA_channel (Hervé 
Poussineau)
78e9d4a: w32: Use gcc option -mthreads (Stefan Weil)
a28c2f2: oslib-win32: Change return type of function getpagesize (Stefan Weil)
857a0e3: trace/simple: Fix warning and wrong trace file name for MinGW (Stefan 
Weil)
b73c184: tap-win32: disable broken async write path (Andrew Baumann)
ee0428e: tap-win32: skip unexpected nodes during registry enumeration (Andrew 
Baumann)
0083773: eepro100: Prevent two endless loops (Stefan Weil)