[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.2.0-rc3 release

[anthony]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
first release candidate for the QEMU 1.2 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.2.0-rc1.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.2 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/

The release plan for the 1.2 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2

And a detailed change log is available at:

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

Known Issues:

  - There is a potential for a SEGV during usb_del, this will be fixed
    in -rc2
  - References are not completely released during device removal which
    may lead to internal memory leaks.

Changelog since -rc0:

 - Update version for 1.2.0-rc1 release (Anthony Liguori)
 - qapi: add 'query-target' command to return target arch (Daniel P. Berrange)
 - pci: Tidy up PCI host bridges (Andreas Färber)
 - pci: Derive PCI host bridges from TYPE_PCI_HOST_BRIDGE (Andreas Färber)
 - pci_host: Turn into SysBus-derived QOM type (Andreas Färber)
 - unin_pci: QOM'ify UniNorth PCI host bridges (Andreas Färber)
 - spapr_pci: QOM'ify sPAPR PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - prep_pci: QOM'ify Raven PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - ppce500_pci: QOM'ify e500 PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - ppc4xx_pci: QOM'ify ppc4xx PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - gt64xxx: QOM'ify GT64120 PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - grackle_pci: QOM'ify Grackle PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - dec_pci: QOM'ify DEC 21154 PCI-PCI bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - bonito: QOM'ify Bonito PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - alpha_typhoon: QOM'ify Typhoon PCI host bridge (Andreas Färber)
 - pci: Make host bridge TypeInfos const (Andreas Färber)
 - virtio-blk: hide VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE from old machine types (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
 - softmmu-semi: fix lock_user* functions not to deref NULL upon OOM (Jim 
Meyering)
 - arm-semi: don't leak 1KB user string lock buffer upon TARGET_SYS_OPEN (Jim 
Meyering)
 - sheepdog: don't leak socket file descriptor upon connection failure (Jim 
Meyering)
 - linux-user: do_msgrcv: don't leak host_mb upon TARGET_EFAULT failure (Jim 
Meyering)
 - qemu-ga: don't leak a file descriptor upon failed lockf (Jim Meyering)
 - xen-all.c: fix multiply issue for int and uint types (Dongxiao Xu)
 - Fix invalidate if memory requested was not bucket aligned (Frediano Ziglio)
 - i82378: Remove bogus MMIO coalescing (Jan Kiszka)
 - eventfd: making it thread safe (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
 - migration: move total_time from ram stats to migration info (Juan Quintela)
 - monitor: avoid declaring unused variables (Blue Swirl)
 - qapi: Fix memory leak (Stefan Weil)
 - virtio-scsi: add backwards-compatibility properties for 1.1 and earlier 
machines (Paolo Bonzini)
 - iscsi: fix races between task completion and abort (Paolo Bonzini)
 - iscsi: simplify iscsi_schedule_bh (Paolo Bonzini)
 - iscsi: move iscsi_schedule_bh and iscsi_readv_writev_bh_cb (Paolo Bonzini)
 - Revert "iscsi: Fix NULL dereferences / races between task completion and 
abort" (Paolo Bonzini)
 - Update OpenBIOS images (Blue Swirl)
 - pc: Fix RTC CMOS info on RAM for ram_size < 1MiB (Markus Armbruster)
 - vl: Round argument of -m up to multiple of 8KiB (Markus Armbruster)
 - scsi: fix warning (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - Avoid asprintf() which is not available on mingw (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - virtio-blk: hide VIRTIO_BLK_F_CONFIG_WCE from old machine types (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
 - Documentation: Warn against qemu-img on active image (Kevin Wolf)
 - vmdk: Read footer for streamOptimized images (Kevin Wolf)
 - vmdk: Fix header structure (Kevin Wolf)
 - ehci: Fix setting of halt bit from usbcmd register updates (Hans de Goede)
 - ehci: fix Interrupt Threshold Control implementation (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - usb: update uas product id (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - usb: async control xfer fixup (Gerd Hoffmann)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori