[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 5.1.0-rc2 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
third release candidate for the QEMU 5.1 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-5.1.0-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-5.1.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 5.1 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/5.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 5.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc1:

5772f2b1fc: Update version for v5.1.0-rc2 release (Peter Maydell)
12c75e20a2: block/nbd: nbd_co_reconnect_loop(): don't sleep if drained 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
fbeb3e63b3: block/nbd: on shutdown terminate connection attempt (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
dd1ec1a4af: block/nbd: allow drain during reconnect attempt (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
fa35591b9c: block/nbd: split nbd_establish_connection out of nbd_client_connect 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
03a970bb6f: iotests: Test convert to qcow2 compressed to NBD (Nir Soffer)
4b914b01cd: iotests: Add more qemu_img helpers (Nir Soffer)
b7719bcad2: iotests: Make qemu_nbd_popen() a contextmanager (Nir Soffer)
a2b333c018: block: nbd: Fix convert qcow2 compressed to nbd (Nir Soffer)
9c15f57891: slirp: update to latest stable-4.2 branch (Marc-André Lureau)
297641d43c: test-char: abort on serial test error (Marc-André Lureau)
890cbccb08: nbd: Fix large trim/zero requests (Eric Blake)
afac471b71: iotests/197: Fix for non-qcow2 formats (Max Reitz)
ae159450e1: iotests/028: Add test for cross-base-EOF reads (Max Reitz)
134b7dec6e: block: Fix bdrv_aligned_p*v() for qiov_offset != 0 (Max Reitz)
22dc8663d9: net: forbid the reentrant RX (Jason Wang)
c546ecf27d: virtio-net: check the existence of peer before accessing vDPA 
config (Jason Wang)
a48aaf882b: virtio-pci: fix wrong index in virtio_pci_queue_enabled (Yuri 
Benditovich)
ba620541d0: qga/qapi-schema: Document -1 for invalid PCI address fields (Thomas 
Huth)
3aaebc0cce: qga-win: fix "guest-get-fsinfo" wrong filesystem type (Basil Salman)
37931e006f: migration: Fix typos in bitmap migration comments (Eric Blake)
fbd1c1b642: iotests: Adjust which migration tests are quick (Eric Blake)
058a08a658: qemu-iotests/199: add source-killed case to bitmaps postcopy 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
845b2204c9: qemu-iotests/199: add early shutdown case to bitmaps postcopy 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
d4c6fcc01b: qemu-iotests/199: check persistent bitmaps (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
48f43820cd: qemu-iotests/199: prepare for new test-cases addition (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
ee64722514: migration/savevm: don't worry if bitmap migration postcopy failed 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
1499ab0969: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: cancel migration on shutdown 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
b91f33b81d: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: relax error handling in incoming part 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
0a47190a00: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: keep bitmap state for all bitmaps 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
f3045b9a82: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: simplify dirty_bitmap_load_complete 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
8949121644: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: rename finish_lock to just lock 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
3b52726ec0: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: refactor state global variables 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
d0cccbd118: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: move mutex init to 
dirty_bitmap_mig_init (Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
b25d364102: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: rename dirty_bitmap_mig_cleanup 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
fbbc6b1470: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: rename state structure types 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
e6ce5e9224: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: fix dirty_bitmap_mig_before_vm_start 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
e80a4150a5: qemu-iotests/199: increase postcopy period (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
31e3827913: qemu-iotests/199: change discard patterns (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
edb90bbdf3: qemu-iotests/199: improve performance: set bitmap by discard 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
09feea6cf5: qemu-iotests/199: better catch postcopy time (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
f3f483ac63: qemu-iotests/199: drop extra constraints (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
8243219fa5: qemu-iotests/199: fix style (Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
8098969cf2: qcow2: Fix capitalization of header extension constant. (Andrey 
Shinkevich)
0f6bb1958f: linux-user: Use getcwd syscall directly (Andreas Schwab)
4d213001b3: linux-user: Fix syscall rt_sigtimedwait() implementation (Filip 
Bozuta)
c9f8066697: linux-user: Ensure mmap_min_addr is non-zero (Richard Henderson)
0c9753ebda: virtio-pci: fix virtio_pci_queue_enabled() (Laurent Vivier)
d4f6dda182: target/arm: Improve IMPDEF algorithm for IRG (Richard Henderson)
7ad01d78a9: hw/arm/boot: Fix MTE for EL3 direct kernel boot (Richard Henderson)
24ac0d309a: hw/arm/boot: Fix PAUTH for EL3 direct kernel boot (Richard 
Henderson)
222f45b759: docs/system/arm/virt: Document 'mte' machine option (Peter Maydell)
a6d6f37aed: target/arm: Always pass cacheattr in S1_ptw_translate (Richard 
Henderson)
ca05a240d4: hw/misc/aspeed_sdmc: Fix incorrect memory size (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
4bf7c0cb09: ACPI: Assert that we don't run out of the preallocated memory 
(Dongjiu Geng)
54414d0fb1: Update OpenBIOS images to 7f28286f built from submodule. (Mark 
Cave-Ayland)
1855536256: iotests/197: Fix for compat=0.10 (Max Reitz)
d0d89526f7: MAINTAINERS: Cover the firmware JSON schema (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
386494f29e: vhost-vdpa :Fix Coverity CID 1430270 / CID 1420267 (Cindy Lu)
8fe9805c73: libvhost-user: Report descriptor index on panic (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
4fdecf0543: Fix vhost-user buffer over-read on ram hot-unplug (Raphael Norwitz)
2ebc21216f: hw/pci-host: save/restore pci host config register (Hogan Wang)
c22aba1963: virtio-mem-pci: force virtio version 1 (David Hildenbrand)
733dafe491: iotests: Select a default machine for the rx and avr targets 
(Thomas Huth)
984c367814: block/amend: Check whether the node exists (Max Reitz)
4a70232b1d: tests/vm: add shutdown timeout in basevm.py (Robert Foley)
80ded8e99d: python/qemu: Change ConsoleSocket to optionally drain socket. 
(Robert Foley)
4b84d87449: python/qemu: Cleanup changes to ConsoleSocket (Robert Foley)
445883885a: linux-user, ppc: fix clock_nanosleep() for linux-user-ppc (Laurent 
Vivier)
8ec68a0a87: linux-user: fix clock_nanosleep() (Laurent Vivier)
4c5aeb1238: tests/docker: add support for DEB_KEYRING (Alex Bennée)
182ec06076: tests/docker: fix binfmt_misc image building (Alex Bennée)
e336cec3a5: tests/docker: fix update command due to python3 str/bytes 
distinction (Alex Bennée)
2667e069e7: linux-user: don't use MAP_FIXED in pgd_find_hole_fallback (Alex 
Bennée)
163b3d1af2: target/i386: floatx80: avoid compound literals in static 
initializers (Laszlo Ersek)
c83d628b7f: accel/tcg: better handle memory constrained systems (Alex Bennée)
986babaab3: util/oslib-win32: add qemu_get_host_physmem implementation (Alex 
Bennée)
ad06ef0efb: util: add qemu_get_host_physmem utility function (Alex Bennée)
7d2d6522bb: semihosting: don't send the trailing '\0' (KONRAD Frederic)
619985e937: semihosting: defer connect_chardevs a little more to use serialx 
(KONRAD Frederic)
3b6b4997b3: shippable: add one more qemu to registry url (Alex Bennée)
aef92d87c5: pseries: fix kvmppc_set_fwnmi() (Laurent Vivier)
8226a4b88b: python/machine: Change default timeout to 30 seconds (John Snow)
3cb3a7720b: target/i386: Save cc_op before loop insns (Richard Henderson)
79826f99fe: target/hppa: Free some temps in do_sub (Richard Henderson)
570ef3093b: tcg: update comments for save_iotlb_data in cputlb (Alex Bennée)
88f8307457: tpm_emulator: Report an error if chardev is missing (Stefan Berger)
5a6791c3d4: tpm: Improve help on TPM types when none are available (Markus 
Armbruster)
d64072c0ac: Revert "tpm: Clean up error reporting in tpm_init_tpmdev()" (Markus 
Armbruster)
9b52b17ba5: configure: Allow to build tools without pixman (Thomas Huth)
2c9728c0db: hw/input/virtio-input-hid.c: Don't undef CONFIG_CURSES (Peter 
Maydell)
8d942986be: hw: Only compile the usb-dwc2 controller if it is really needed 
(Thomas Huth)
192cf54ac5: qapi/error: Check format string argument in error_*prepend() 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
838886378e: sd/milkymist-memcard: Fix format string (Stefan Weil)
ff5b5d5b6d: error: Strip trailing '\n' from error string arguments (again) 
(Markus Armbruster)
cb3fa1e4c0: coccinelle/err-bad-newline: Fix for Python 3, and add patterns 
(Markus Armbruster)
d664548328: s390x/s390-virtio-ccw: fix loadparm property getter (Halil Pasic)
d1bb69db4c: s390x/protvirt: allow to IPL secure guests with -no-reboot 
(Christian Borntraeger)
0baa4b445e: KVM: fix CPU reset wrt HF2_GIF_MASK (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
8ba26b0b2b: target/riscv: Fix the range of pmpcfg of CSR funcion table (Zong Li)
e79d27cb32: hw/riscv: sifive_e: Correct debug block size (Bin Meng)
3e09396e36: target/riscv: fix vector index load/store constraints (LIU Zhiwei)
eabfeb0cb9: target/riscv: Quiet Coverity complains about vamo* (LIU Zhiwei)
8380b3a453: goldfish_rtc: Fix non-atomic read behaviour of TIME_LOW/TIME_HIGH 
(Jessica Clarke)
ccec7e9603: virtio-pci: Changed vdev to proxy for VirtIO PCI BAR callbacks. 
(Andrew Melnychenko)
a4544c45e1: intel_iommu: Use correct shift for 256 bits qi descriptor (Liu Yi L)
9b3a35ec82: virtio: verify that legacy support is not accidentally on (Cornelia 
Huck)
7c78bdd7a3: virtio: list legacy-capable devices (Cornelia Huck)
3219b42f02: virtio-balloon: Replace free page hinting references to 'report' 
with 'hint' (Alexander Duyck)
1a83e0b9c4: virtio-balloon: Add locking to prevent possible race when starting 
hinting (Alexander Duyck)
20a4da0f23: virtio-balloon: Prevent guest from starting a report when we didn't 
request one (Alexander Duyck)
cf4e3d000e: virtio: Drop broken and superfluous object_property_set_link() 
(Markus Armbruster)
dba04c3488: acpi: accept byte and word access to core ACPI registers (Michael 
Tokarev)
029afc4e76: qdev: Fix device_add DRIVER,help to print to monitor (Markus 
Armbruster)
077195187b: hw/nvram/fw_cfg: Let fw_cfg_add_from_generator() return boolean 
value (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
a3ad58342a: hw/nvram/fw_cfg: Simplify fw_cfg_add_from_generator() error 
propagation (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
5e29521a82: hw/avr/boot: Fix memory leak in avr_load_firmware() (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
b6c61f6934: qemu-common: Document qemu_find_file() (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
d450cccc9a: qemu/osdep: Reword qemu_get_exec_dir() documentation (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
7da1d7dcc0: qemu/osdep: Document os_find_datadir() return value (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)