Hi,
On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fourth release candidate for the QEMU 1.1 release. This release is meant for
testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.1.0-rc4.tar.bz2
You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
The release plan for the 1.1 release is available at:
http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.1
And a detailed change log is available at:
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next
Known Issues:
- There are no known release blockers in -rc4.
Changes since -rc3:
- pc-bios: Update OpenBIOS images (Blue Swirl)
- block: prevent snapshot mode $TMPDIR symlink attack (Jim Meyering)
- xhci: add usage info to docs (Gerd Hoffmann)
- vnc: fix segfault in vnc_display_pw_expire() (Gerd Hoffmann)
- Expose CPUID leaf 7 only for -cpu host (Eduardo Habkost)
- qemu-ga: avoid blocking on atime update when reading /etc/mtab (Michael Roth)
- qemu-ga: Fix use of environ on Darwin (Andreas Färber)
- pci: call object_unparent() before free_qdev() (Amos Kong)
- fix multiboot loading if load_end_addr == 0 (Scott Moser)
- vga: fix vram double-mapping with -vga std and -M pc-0.12 (Avi Kivity)
- cocoa: Suppress Cocoa frontend for -qtest (Andreas Färber)
- arch_init: Fix AltiVec build on Darwin/ppc (Andreas Färber)
- slirp: Avoid redefining MAX_TCPOPTLEN (Andreas Färber)
- slirp: Avoid statements without effect on Big Endian host (Andreas Färber)
- ISCSI: Switch to using READ16/WRITE16 for I/O to the LUN (Ronnie Sahlberg)
- ISCSI: Only call READCAPACITY16 for SBC devices, use READCAPACITY10 for MMC
(Ronnie Sahlberg)
- ISCSI: get device type at connection time (Ronnie Sahlberg)
- ISCSI: change num_blocks to 64-bit (Paolo Bonzini)
- ISCSI: redo how we set up the events (Ronnie Sahlberg)
- slirp: Untangle TCPOLEN_* from TCPOPT_* (Andreas Färber)
- tcg/ppc: Handle _CALL_DARWIN being undefined on Darwin (Andreas Färber)
- fdc-test: introduced qtest no_media_on_start and cmos qtest for floppy
(Pavel Hrdina)
- fdc: fix media detection (Pavel Hrdina)
- fdc: floppy drive should be visible after start without media (Pavel Hrdina)
- qemu-iotests: mark 035 qcow2-only (Stefan Hajnoczi)
- qcow2: Check qcow2_alloc_clusters_at() return value (Kevin Wolf)
- sheepdog: use heap instead of stack for BDRVSheepdogState (MORITA Kazutaka)
- sheepdog: return -errno on error (MORITA Kazutaka)
- sheepdog: mark image as snapshot when tag is specified (MORITA Kazutaka)
- qemu-img: Explain how rebase operation can be used to perform a 'diff'
operation. (Richard W.M. Jones)
- qcow2: don't leak buffer for unexpected qcow_version in header (Jim Meyering)
- scsi: declare vmstate_info_scsi_requests to be static (Jim Meyering)
- qemu-ga: Fix missing environ declaration (Luiz Capitulino)
- configure: check if environ is declared (Luiz Capitulino)
- audio: Always call fini on exit (Jan Kiszka)
- es1370: Fix debug code (Stefan Weil)
- Call xc_domain_shutdown with the reboot flag when the guest requests a
reboot. (John V. Baboval)
- xen: Fix PV-on-HVM (Anthony PERARD)
- xen_disk: properly update stats in ioreq_release() (Jan Beulich)
- xen_disk: use bdrv_aio_flush instead of bdrv_flush (Stefano Stabellini)
- xen_disk: remove syncwrite option (Stefano Stabellini)
- xen: disable rtc_clock (Stefano Stabellini)
- xen: do not initialize the interval timer and PCSPK emulator (Stefano
Stabellini)
Regards,
Anthony Liguori