[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0-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 2.8 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.8.0-rc1.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.8 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
candidates, are available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.8

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.8 release below:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.8

Changes since rc0:

00227fe: Update version for v2.8.0-rc1 release (Stefan Hajnoczi)
f1784a2: xen: attach pvusb usb bus to backend qdev (Juergen Gross)
3a6c917: xen: create qdev for each backend device (Juergen Gross)
ce49b73: qdev: add function qdev_set_id() (Juergen Gross)
873d57a: xen: add an own bus for xen backend devices (Juergen Gross)
b85f9df: xen: fix ioreq handling (Jan Beulich)
3482b9b: block: Pass unaligned discard requests to drivers (Eric Blake)
49228d1: block: Return -ENOTSUP rather than assert on unaligned discards (Eric 
Blake)
b2f95fe: block: Let write zeroes fallback work even with small max_transfer 
(Eric Blake)
ecdbead: qcow2: Inform block layer about discard boundaries (Eric Blake)
a7764f1: Fix FreeBSD (10.x) build after 7dc9ae43 (Ed Maste)
cae41fd: seabios: update to 1.10.1 stable release (Gerd Hoffmann)
668c0e4: gluster: Fix use after free in glfs_clear_preopened() (Kevin Wolf)
4b5b47a: acpi: Use apic_id_limit when calculating legacy ACPI table size 
(Eduardo Habkost)
d668fc4: ipmi: fix qemu crash while migrating with ipmi (ZhuangYanying)
be4e0d7: ivshmem: Fix 64 bit memory bar configuration (Zhuang Yanying)
83d768b: virtio: set ISR on dataplane notifications (Paolo Bonzini)
0687c37: virtio: access ISR atomically (Paolo Bonzini)
310837d: virtio: introduce grab/release_ioeventfd to fix vhost (Paolo Bonzini)
600f5ce: virtio-crypto: fix virtio_queue_set_notification() race (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
d4f7ca5: trace: fix generated code build break (Greg Kurz)
022f52e: target-alpha: Log cpuid with -d int (Richard Henderson)
dfbd276: target-alpha: Update palcode for smp (Richard Henderson)
b2b79a6: ivshmem: Fix 64 bit memory bar configuration (Zhuang Yanying)
252093a: qapi-schema: clarify 'colo' state for MigrationStatus (zhanghailiang)
e3cadac: pc: fix FW_CFG_NB_CPUS to account for -device added CPUs (Igor 
Mammedov)
5836d16: fw_cfg: move FW_CFG_NB_CPUS out of fw_cfg_init1() (Igor Mammedov)
eabff15: Revert "pc: Add 'etc/boot-cpus' fw_cfg file for machine with more than 
255 CPUs" (Igor Mammedov)
804ba7c: xen: Fix xenpv machine initialisation (Anthony PERARD)