[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.1.0-rc4 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fifth release candidate for the QEMU 6.1 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc4.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.1.0-rc4.tar.xz.sig

A note from the maintainer:

  There are a comparatively large number of commits here for an rc4,
  but they are mostly changes only to documentation or the test suite;
  there are only a few, relatively minor, bug fixes. Hopefully
  the final 6.1.0 release will come out on Tuesday 24th.

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 6.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs using our GitLab issue tracker:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues

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

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/6.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 6.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc3:

ecf2706e27: Update version for v6.1.0-rc4 release (Peter Maydell)
1c4c685936: softmmu/physmem: fix wrong assertion in qemu_ram_alloc_internal() 
(David Hildenbrand)
0572edc55b: qapi/machine.json: Remove zero value reference from 
SMPConfiguration documentation (Andrew Jones)
ea0aa1752c: hw/core: fix error checking in smp_parse (Daniel P. Berrangé)
0b46318170: hw/core: Add missing return on error (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
24d84c7e48: target/i386: Fixed size of constant for Windows (Lara Lazier)
a7686d5d85: Hexagon (disas/hexagon.c) fix memory leak for early exit cases 
(Taylor Simpson)
36b508993c: docs/about/removed-features: Document removed machines from older 
QEMU versions (Thomas Huth)
5643fcdd42: docs/about/removed-features: Document removed devices from older 
QEMU versions (Thomas Huth)
5d82c10160: docs/about/removed-features: Document removed HMP commands from 
QEMU v2.12 (Thomas Huth)
29e0447551: docs/about/removed-features: Document removed CLI options from QEMU 
v3.1 (Thomas Huth)
8cc461c185: docs/about/removed-features: Document removed CLI options from QEMU 
v3.0 (Thomas Huth)
3d9c7ec955: docs/about/removed-features: Document removed CLI options from QEMU 
v2.12 (Thomas Huth)
3973e7ae63: fuzz: avoid building twice, when running on gitlab (Alexander 
Bulekov)
b063c290f3: tests/qtest/vhost-user-blk-test: Check whether qemu-storage-daemon 
is available (Thomas Huth)
cc1838c25d: storage-daemon: Add missing build dependency to the 
vhost-user-blk-test (Thomas Huth)
a1f0f36838: gitlab: skip many more targets in windows cross builds (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
a4de5e8a06: MAINTAINERS: update virtio-gpu entry. (Gerd Hoffmann)
1e2edb9866: MAINTAINERS: update virtio-input entry. (Gerd Hoffmann)
cd02c965c4: MAINTAINERS: update usb entries. (Gerd Hoffmann)
227b1638ba: MAINTAINERS: update spice entry. (Gerd Hoffmann)
6bc915f31a: MAINTAINERS: update audio entry. (Gerd Hoffmann)
8f6259055a: MAINTAINERS: update sockets entry. (Gerd Hoffmann)
f492bdf4ab: MAINTAINERS: update edk2 entry. (Gerd Hoffmann)
a62354915b: gitlab: exclude sparc-softmmu and riscv32-softmmu from cross builds 
(Daniel P. Berrangé)