[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 7.1.0-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 7.1 release. This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-7.1.0-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-7.1.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 7.1 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/7.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 7.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/7.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc1:

61b6e67171: Update version for v7.1.0-rc2 release (Richard Henderson)
c7f26ded6d: icount: Take iothread lock when running QEMU timers (Peter Maydell)
7cf745dd9c: hw/net/rocker: Avoid undefined shifts with more than 31 ports 
(Peter Maydell)
10dcb08b03: target/loongarch: Remove cpu_fcsr0 (Richard Henderson)
09d12c81ec: hw/misc/grlib_ahb_apb_pnp: Support 8 and 16 bit accesses (Peter 
Maydell)
bd64c210ce: hw/mips/malta: turn off x86 specific features of PIIX4_PM (Igor 
Mammedov)
8809baf4e4: target/mips: Handle lock_user() failure in UHI_plog semihosting 
call (Peter Maydell)
f6a5f38062: tests/qtest: add scenario for -readconfig handling (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
69c05a2378: vl: remove dead code in parse_memory_options() (Paolo Bonzini)
e12f0685e8: vl: fix [memory] section with -readconfig (Paolo Bonzini)
9390da5ef2: xlnx_dp: drop unsupported AUXCommand in xlnx_dp_aux_set_command 
(Qiang Liu)
a32086de49: contrib/vhost-user-blk: Clean up deallocation of VuVirtqElement 
(Markus Armbruster)
407634970d: tests/qemu-iotests/264: Allow up to 5s for the BLOCK_JOB_CANCEL 
event to arrive (Thomas Huth)
c05a88c6b2: tests/avocado: fix replay-linux test (Pavel Dovgalyuk)
c3dd58ba6e: pc-bios/s390-ccw: Update the s390-ccw.img with the block size fix 
(Thomas Huth)
393296de19: pc-bios/s390-ccw: Fix booting with logical block size < physical 
block size (Thomas Huth)
2f149c759f: target/loongarch: Update gdb_set_fpu() and gdb_get_fpu() (Song Gao)
d182c39000: target/loongarch: Update loongarch-fpu.xml (Song Gao)
96c3298c0a: target/loongarch: update loongarch-base64.xml (Song Gao)
cd8ef0ed3b: target/loongarch: add gdb_arch_name() (Song Gao)
1fe8ac3511: target/loongarch: Fix GDB get the wrong pc (Song Gao)
4cbadc40b9: hw/loongarch: remove acpi-build.c unused variable 'aml_len' (Song 
Gao)
00952d93e0: target/loongarch: Fix macros SET_FPU_* in cpu.h (Qi Hu)
e3fdb13e88: util/qemu-sockets: Replace the call to close a socket with 
closesocket() (Bin Meng)
977c33ba5d: target/arm: display deprecation status in '-cpu help' (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
738cdc2f6e: target/s390x: display deprecation status in '-cpu help' (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
5dfa9e8689: target/i386: display deprecation status in '-cpu help' (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
5258a7e2c0: QIOChannelSocket: Add support for MSG_ZEROCOPY + IPV6 (Leonardo 
Bras)
fbf8c96be3: docs: build-platforms: Clarify stance on minor releases and 
backports (Andrea Bolognani)
7b0ca31364: virtiofsd: Fix format strings (Stefan Weil)
ed021daf2d: hw/ppc: sam460ex.c: store all GPIO lines in mal_irqs[] (Daniel 
Henrique Barboza)
21d4e557e2: include/qemu/host-utils.h: Simplify the compiler check in mulu128() 
(Thomas Huth)
1e2dd31149: ppc: Remove redundant macro MSR_BOOK3S_MASK. (Yonggang Luo)
9878fbf342: docs/about/removed-features: Move the -soundhw into the right 
section (Thomas Huth)
aed5da45da: vdpa: Fix file descriptor leak on get features error (Eugenio Pérez)
9567fc1665: README.rst: fix link formatting (Cornelia Huck)
5b63de6b54: linux-user: Use memfd for open syscall emulation (Rainer Müller)
55794c904d: scsi-disk: ensure block size is non-zero and changes limited to 
bits 8-15 (Mark Cave-Ayland)
54a53a006e: scsi-disk: fix overflow when block size is not a multiple of 
BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE (Mark Cave-Ayland)
f71fa4e3bb: linux-user: Do not treat madvise()'s advice as a bitmask (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
734a659ad2: linux-user/flatload.c: Fix setting of image_info::end_code (Peter 
Maydell)