[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.0.0-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 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-rc4.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.0.0-rc4.tar.xz.sig

A note from the maintainer:

  This rc has rather more changes in it than I would ideally like
  in an rc4, due to a number of late-breaking bugfixes. However, I
  hope that we'll be able to make the final release next week, on
  Wednesday 19th April.

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 rc3:

7dbd6f8a27: Update version for v8.0.0-rc4 release (Peter Maydell)
69d4e746b3: hw/xen: Fix double-free in xen_console store_con_info() (David 
Woodhouse)
28ef5339c3: migration: fix ram_state_pending_exact() (Juan Quintela)
37502df32c: migration/ram.c: Fix migration with compress enabled (Lukas Straub)
06064a6715: migration: Recover behavior of preempt channel creation for pre-7.2 
(Peter Xu)
6621883f93: migration: Fix potential race on postcopy_qemufile_src (Peter Xu)
86d063fa83: io: tls: Inherit QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_SHUTDOWN on server side (Peter 
Xu)
3fe64abcde: block/nfs: do not poll within a coroutine (Paolo Bonzini)
4b32319cda: hw/nvme: fix memory leak in nvme_dsm (Klaus Jensen)
cb16e5c76f: hw/nvme: fix memory leak in fdp ruhid parsing (Klaus Jensen)
81f730d4d0: block, block-backend: write some hot coroutine wrappers by hand 
(Paolo Bonzini)
9ed98cae15: block-backend: ignore inserted state in blk_co_nb_sectors (Paolo 
Bonzini)
e5203a3b5d: block-backend: inline bdrv_co_get_geometry (Paolo Bonzini)
2c5451ca52: migration/block: replace uses of blk_nb_sectors that do not check 
result (Paolo Bonzini)
8c6f27e7d8: block: remove has_variable_length from BlockDriver (Paolo Bonzini)
439cc330c5: block: refresh bs->total_sectors on reopen (Paolo Bonzini)
6188088f72: block: remove has_variable_length from filters (Paolo Bonzini)
160a29e2f8: block: move has_variable_length to BlockLimits (Paolo Bonzini)
6c50845a91: hw/i2c/allwinner-i2c: Fix subclassing of TYPE_AW_I2C_SUN6I (Peter 
Maydell)
2b1f8fcb84: iotests: Regression test for vhdx log corruption (Kevin Wolf)
8af037fe4c: block/vhdx: fix dynamic VHDX BAT corruption (Lukas Tschoke)
20861f34e0: tcg/ppc: Fix TCG_TARGET_CALL_{ARG,RET}_I128 for ppc32 (Richard 
Henderson)
25acc3f279: tcg/mips: Fix TCG_TARGET_CALL_RET_I128 for o32 abi (Richard 
Henderson)
7d9e1ee424: tcg/i386: Adjust assert in tcg_out_addi_ptr (Richard Henderson)
8539dc0055: target/arm: Copy guarded bit in combine_cacheattrs (Richard 
Henderson)
6a3b1e440b: target/arm: PTE bit GP only applies to stage1 (Richard Henderson)
a253231fbe: target/ppc: Fix temp usage in gen_op_arith_modw (Richard Henderson)
cc40b8b844: util/error: Fix use-after-free errors reported by Coverity (Stefan 
Berger)