[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.0.0-rc3 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fourth release candidate for the QEMU 8.0 release. This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.0.0-rc3.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.0.0-rc3.tar.xz.sig

A note from the maintainer:

  Unless any showstopper bugs appear in the next week, this will be the
  final rc for this release.

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 8.0 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs using our GitLab issue tracker:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/8#tab-issues

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

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/8.0

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 8.0 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/8.0

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc2:

c6f3cbca32: Update version for v8.0.0-rc3 release (Peter Maydell)
b1ab8f9cc5: Revert "memory: Optimize replay of guest mapping" (Peter Maydell)
56adee407f: kvm: dirty-ring: Fix race with vcpu creation (Peter Xu)
1ffbe5d681: tcg/sparc64: Disable direct linking for goto_tb (Richard Henderson)
3371802fba: accel/tcg: Fix jump cache set in cpu_exec_loop (Richard Henderson)
c83574392e: accel/tcg: Fix overwrite problems of tcg_cflags (Weiwei Li)
c8cb603293: tests/avocado: Test Xen guest support under KVM (David Woodhouse)
fc9988916a: gitlab: fix typo (Alex Bennée)
bdd53274f2: tests/vm: use the default system python for NetBSD (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
90834f5de6: tests/qemu-iotests: explicitly invoke 'check' via 'python' (Daniel 
P. Berrangé)
6e3be02291: Use hexagon toolchain version 16.0.0 (Marco Liebel)
452b3eeacc: metadata: add .git-blame-ignore-revs (Alex Bennée)
3be8c03460: MAINTAINERS: add a section for policy documents (Alex Bennée)
0beaebc041: gdbstub: don't report auxv feature unless on Linux (Alex Bennée)
b846ad627e: gdbstub: Only build libgdb_user.fa / libgdb_softmmu.fa if necessary 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
6cda41daa2: Revert "linux-user/arm: Take more care allocating commpage" 
(Richard Henderson)
899c3fc2dc: scripts/coverage: initial coverage comparison script (Alex Bennée)
f1426881a8: nbd/server: Request TCP_NODELAY (Eric Blake)
b8b6d3c04a: MAINTAINERS: Remove and change David Gilbert maintainer entries 
(Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
ec28dd6c6f: target/loongarch: Enables plugins to get instruction codes 
(tanhongze)
51d54503e8: hw/loongarch/virt: Fix virt_to_phys_addr function (Tianrui Zhao)
a0eaa126af: hw/ssi: Fix Linux driver init issue with xilinx_spi (Chris Rauer)
782781e85d: target/arm: Fix generated code for cpreg reads when HSTR is active 
(Peter Maydell)
12148d442e: hw/arm: do not free machine->fdt in arm_load_dtb() (Markus 
Armbruster)
b15bdc9651: target/arm: Fix non-TCG build failure by inlining pauth_ptr_mask() 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
aad3eb1ffe: block/dmg: Ignore C99 prototype declaration mismatch from <lzfse.h> 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
95bf341865: hw/i2c: pmbus: block uninitialised string reads (Titus Rwantare)
9d403d27bc: tests/avocado: Enable TuxRun/mips64 (big-endian) test (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
3d85c7c15f: hw/mips/gt64xxx_pci: Don't endian-swap GT_PCI0_CFGADDR (Jiaxun Yang)
450cb7ec2c: linux-user/mips: Use P5600 as default CPU to run NaN2008 ELF 
binaries (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
baead64297: linux-user/sparc: Don't use 16-bit UIDs on SPARC V9 (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
87e303de70: softmmu: Restore use of CPU watchpoint for all accelerators 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
a085860834: softmmu/watchpoint: Add missing 'qemu/error-report.h' include 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
6eece7f531: softmmu: Restrict cpu_check_watchpoint / address_matches to TCG 
accel (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
4f5c67f8df: linux-user/arm: Take more care allocating commpage (Richard 
Henderson)
95059f9c31: include/exec: Change reserved_va semantics to last byte (Richard 
Henderson)
a3a67f54f0: linux-user: Pass last not end to probe_guest_base (Richard 
Henderson)
e506ad6a05: accel/tcg: Pass last not end to tb_invalidate_phys_range (Richard 
Henderson)
73f96d51ff: accel/tcg: Pass last not end to 
tb_invalidate_phys_page_range__locked (Richard Henderson)
f6555e3f39: accel/tcg: Pass last not end to page_collection_lock (Richard 
Henderson)
f7e2add5fd: accel/tcg: Pass last not end to PAGE_FOR_EACH_TB (Richard Henderson)
10310cbd62: accel/tcg: Pass last not end to page_reset_target_data (Richard 
Henderson)
49840a4a09: accel/tcg: Pass last not end to page_set_flags (Richard Henderson)
2f7828b572: linux-user: Diagnose misaligned -R size (Richard Henderson)
1ff4a81bd3: tcg: use QTree instead of GTree (Emilio Cota)
e3feb2cc22: util: import GTree as QTree (Emilio Cota)