[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 4.1.0-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 4.1 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.1.0-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.1.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 4.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

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

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/4.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 4.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc1:

061b51e919: Update version for v4.0.0-rc2 release (Peter Maydell)
b4682a63f8: filemon: fix watch IDs to avoid potential wraparound issues (Daniel 
P. Berrangé)
ff3dc8fefe: filemon: ensure watch IDs are unique to QFileMonitor scope (Daniel 
P. Berrangé)
b26c3f9cbd: tests: refactor file monitor test to make it more understandable 
(Daniel P. Berrangé)
79b9d4bde7: accel: Unbreak accelerator fallback (Markus Armbruster)
0427b6257e: vl: Document dependencies hiding in global and compat props (Markus 
Armbruster)
daff7f0bbe: migration: Support adding migration blockers earlier (Markus 
Armbruster)
811f865271: Revert "migration: move only_migratable to MigrationState" (Markus 
Armbruster)
2fa23277d5: Revert "vl: Fix to create migration object before block backends 
again" (Markus Armbruster)
5cc8f9eb7a: qapi/migration.json: Rename COLOStatus last_mode to last-mode 
(Zhang Chen)
966c0d4932: qapi/migration.json: Fix ColoStatus member last_mode's version 
(Zhang Chen)
17f30eae12: vl: Fix error location of positional arguments (Markus Armbruster)
f18957b854: tests/qemu-iotests/235: Allow fallback to tcg (Thomas Huth)
d20ba603f2: block: test block-stream with a base node that is used by 
block-commit (Alberto Garcia)
20509c4b8b: block: freeze the backing chain earlier in stream_start() (Alberto 
Garcia)
0f0998f621: block: continue until base is found in bdrv_freeze_backing_chain() 
et al (Alberto Garcia)
696aaaed57: block/file-posix: do not fail on unlock bytes (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
38e694fcc9: tests/qemu-iotests: Remove redundant COPYING file (Thomas Huth)
de23e72bb7: block/gluster: limit the transfer size to 512 MiB (Stefano 
Garzarella)
a3d6ae2299: qemu-img: Enable BDRV_REQ_MAY_UNMAP in convert (Nir Soffer)
e0a59749ef: iotests: Fix test 200 on s390x without virtio-pci (Thomas Huth)
be1092afa0: audio: fix audio timer rate conversion bug (Volker Rümelin)
b396733df3: usb-mtp: remove usb_mtp_object_free_one (Bandan Das)
4bc1591681: usb-mtp: fix return status of delete (Bandan Das)
75d34eb98c: nbd/client: Trace server noncompliance on structured reads (Eric 
Blake)
b0245d6478: nbd/server: Advertise actual minimum block size (Eric Blake)
4841211e0d: block: Add bdrv_get_request_alignment() (Eric Blake)
9cf638508c: nbd/client: Support qemu-img convert from unaligned size (Eric 
Blake)
3add3ab782: nbd/client: Reject inaccessible tail of inconsistent server (Eric 
Blake)
5189e30b14: hw/usb/bus.c: Handle "no speed matched" case in usb_mask_to_str() 
(Peter Maydell)
28605a22f5: Revert "audio: fix pc speaker init" (Gerd Hoffmann)
a62a85ef5c: nbd/client: Report offsets in bdrv_block_status (Eric Blake)
7da537f70d: nbd/client: Lower min_block for block-status, unaligned size (Eric 
Blake)
e9dce9cb6e: iotests: Add 241 to test NBD on unaligned images (Eric Blake)
737d3f5244: nbd-client: Work around server BLOCK_STATUS misalignment at EOF 
(Eric Blake)
30065d1424: qemu-img: Gracefully shutdown when map can't finish (Eric Blake)
ebd82cd872: nbd: Permit simple error to NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS (Eric Blake)
b29f3a3d2a: nbd: Don't lose server's error to NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS (Eric Blake)
a39286dd61: nbd: Tolerate some server non-compliance in NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS 
(Eric Blake)
2058c2ad26: qemu-img: Report bdrv_block_status failures (Eric Blake)
ab79237a15: net: tap: use qemu_set_nonblock (Li Qiang)
c6bf50ff72: MAINTAINERS: Update the latest email address (Zhang Chen)
157628d067: e1000: Delay flush queue when receive RCTL (yuchenlin)
fdec16e3c2: net/socket: learn to talk with a unix dgram socket (Marc-André 
Lureau)
7d5489e6d1: exec: Only count mapped memory backends for qemu_getrampagesize() 
(David Gibson)
273fef83f6: spapr/irq: Add XIVE sanity checks on non-P9 machines (Cédric Le 
Goater)
0a794529bd: spapr: Simplify handling of host-serial and host-model values 
(David Gibson)
3e5365b7aa: target/ppc: Fix QEMU crash with stxsdx (Greg Kurz)
15d68c5e1d: target/ppc: Improve comment of bcctr used for spectre v2 mitigation 
(Greg Kurz)
d0db7caddb: target/ppc: Consolidate 64-bit server processor detection in a 
helper (Greg Kurz)
fa200c95f7: target/ppc: Enable "decrement and test CTR" version of bcctr (Greg 
Kurz)
9acc95cdd3: target/ppc: Fix TCG temporary leaks in gen_bcond() (Greg Kurz)
c3c962c12c: MAINTAINERS: Update the device tree maintainers (Alistair Francis)
035121d23a: seccomp: report more useful errors from seccomp (Daniel P. Berrangé)
9a1565a03b: seccomp: don't kill process for resource control syscalls (Daniel 
P. Berrangé)
22e3284f01: pc-bios: Update palcode-clipper (Richard Henderson)
bc19449acc: tests/tcg/xtensa: clean up test set (Max Filippov)
393cf60bf7: target/xtensa: don't announce exit simcall (Max Filippov)
b9ec52188f: target/xtensa: fix break_dependency for repeated resources (Max 
Filippov)
938912a866: virtio-vga: only enable for specific boards (Paolo Bonzini)
b7c11e5749: config-all-devices.mak: rebuild on reconfigure (Paolo Bonzini)
67163caeba: minikconf: fix parser typo (Paolo Bonzini)
4b519ef1de: intel-iommu: optimize nodmar memory regions (Peter Xu)
8b159699d4: test-announce-self: convert to qgraph (Paolo Bonzini)
9ad4994661: hw/alpha/Kconfig: DP264 hardware requires e1000 network card 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
b6dbcdb7b3: hw/hppa/Kconfig: Dino board requires e1000 network card (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
364efd1a15: hw/sh4/Kconfig: r2d machine requires the rtl8139 network card 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
bcb7ef9d1b: hw/ppc/Kconfig: e500 based machines require virtio-net-pci device 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
f7b5cdcbf2: hw/ppc/Kconfig: Bamboo machine requires e1000 network card 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
b5ea7070e5: hw/mips/Kconfig: Fulong 2e board requires ati-vga/rtl8139 PCI 
devices (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
892da02848: hw/mips/Kconfig: Malta machine requires the pcnet network card 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
09cba51e4f: hw/i386/Kconfig: enable devices that can be created by default 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
fa80da7b69: hw/isa/Kconfig: PIIX4 southbridge requires USB UHCI (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
aa889f7304: hw/isa/Kconfig: i82378 SuperIO requires PC speaker device (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
b4f15fc4c1: prep: do not select I82374 (Paolo Bonzini)
b377471ac8: hw/i386/Kconfig: PC uses I8257, not I82374 (Paolo Bonzini)
3e3fdad6e1: hw/char/parallel: Make it possible to compile also without 
CONFIG_PARALLEL (Thomas Huth)
cedc0ad539: target/i386: sev: Do not pin the ram device memory region (Singh, 
Brijesh)
2ddb89b00f: memory: Fix the memory region type assignment order (Singh, Brijesh)
d6c1bd4a22: kconfig: add dependencies on CONFIG_MSI_NONBROKEN (Paolo Bonzini)
ca9b7e29de: kconfig: add CONFIG_MSI_NONBROKEN (Paolo Bonzini)
4f5604c41d: riscv: plic: Set msi_nonbroken as true (Alistair Francis)