[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 4.2.0-rc5 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
sixth release candidate for the QEMU 4.2 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.2.0-rc5.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.2.0-rc5.tar.xz.sig

A note from the maintainer:

  rc5 contains three fixes for late-breaking release critical bugs:
   * a QEMU crash when using KVM with an x86 host kernel with nested=0
   * a guest crash in PPC spapr machines with pci bridges
   * a crash involving bitmap handling in the qcow2 image format
  
  We now plan to make the final release with no further
  changes on Thursday, 2019-12-12.

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 4.2 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/4.2

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 4.2 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.2

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc4:

52901abf94: Update version for v4.2.0-rc5 release (Peter Maydell)
f56281abd9: block/qcow2-bitmap: fix crash bug in 
qcow2_co_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap (Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
a2fad86497: pseries: Update SLOF firmware image (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
2605188240: target/i386: disable VMX features if nested=0 (Yang Zhong)