[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.1.0-rc1 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
second release candidate for the QEMU 2.1 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.1.0-rc1.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.1 release is available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.1

The following changes have been made since v2.1.0-rc0:

675879f: Update version for v2.1.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
b653282: hw/ppc/spapr_hcall.c: Add ULL suffix to 64 bit constant (Peter Maydell)
d614cb6: Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/cohuck/tags/s390x-20140708' into 
staging (Peter Maydell)
2ed982b: s390x/css: reflect cpa in scsw (Cornelia Huck)
32a02d0: pc-bios/s390-ccw: update binary (Cornelia Huck)
f2879a5: pc-bios/s390-ccw: store proper subsystem information word (Christian 
Borntraeger)
67d01fb: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20140708' into staging (Peter Maydell)
75c9a1a: target-arm: Implement vCPU reset via KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT for 32-bit CPUs 
(Peter Maydell)
6ec1588: hw/arm/vexpress: Alias NOR flash at 0 for vexpress-a9 (Peter Maydell)
834fb1b: disas/libvixl: prepend the include path of libvixl header files 
(Stefano Stabellini)
eaa4980: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/agraf/tags/signed-ppc-for-upstream' into staging (Peter Maydell)
0c6ab8c: PPC: e500: Actually install u-boot.e500 (Cole Robinson)
b60c600: target-ppc: Remove POWER7+ and POWER8E families (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
03ae413: target-ppc: Add pvr_match() callback (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
d6c23f8: pseries: Update SLOF firmware image to qemu-slof-20140630 (Alexey 
Kardashevskiy)
da89a1c: PPC: Fix booke206 TLB with phys addrs > 32bit (Alexander Graf)
be5c9dd: target-ppc: Fix gdbstub for ppc64le-linux-user (Richard Henderson)
a74029f: target-ppc: Change default cpu for ppc64le-linux-user (Richard 
Henderson)
4bce526: target-ppc: KVMPPC_H_CAS fix cpu-version endianess (Laurent Dufour)
128f0e6: Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/afaerber/tags/prep-for-2.1' into 
staging (Peter Maydell)
c6ea9b7: Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into 
staging (Peter Maydell)
ee0f260: prep: Update ppc_rom.bin (Andreas Färber)
56de2e5: prep: Remove CPU reset entry point hack related to OpenHack'Ware 
(Hervé Poussineau)
97db046: prep: Remove PCI memory hack related to OpenHack'Ware (Hervé 
Poussineau)
9540d1f: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/stefanha/tags/block-pull-request' into staging (Peter Maydell)
f811d47: Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/sstabellini/xen_arm_20140707' 
into staging (Peter Maydell)
643f593: xen: build on ARM (Stefano Stabellini)
4aba9eb: xen_backend: introduce xenstore_read_uint64 and 
xenstore_read_fe_uint64 (Stefano Stabellini)
f4eb32b: qmp: show QOM properties in device-list-properties (Stefan Hajnoczi)
dd67c1d: dataplane: submit I/O as a batch (Ming Lei)
1b3abdc: linux-aio: implement io plug, unplug and flush io queue (Ming Lei)
448ad91: block: block: introduce APIs for submitting IO as a batch (Ming Lei)
5a18e67: ahci: map memory via device's address space instead of 
address_space_memory (Le Tan)
aa72970: raw-posix: Fix raw_getlength() to always return -errno on error 
(Markus Armbruster)
a42a1fa: qemu-iotests: Disable Quorum testing in 041 when Quorum is not builtin 
(Benoît Canet)
d02f8ad: ahci.c: mask unused flags when reading size PRDT DBC (Reza Jelveh)
37253e1: MAINTAINERS: add Stefan Hajnoczi to IDE maintainers (Stefan Hajnoczi)
5a0f6fd: mirror: Fix qiov size for short requests (Kevin Wolf)
bc3a7f9: Fix nocow typos in manpage (Chunyan Liu)
3f0838a: qemu-char: add chr_add_watch support in mux chardev (Kirill Batuzov)
8b81bb3: virtio-pci: fix MSI memory region use after free (Paolo Bonzini)
dd98b71: qdev: Fix crash when using non-device class name on -global (Eduardo 
Habkost)
3196270: qdev: Don't abort() in case globals can't be set (Eduardo Habkost)
b7c9285: hw/virtio: enable common virtio feature for mmio device (Ming Lei)
22dc50d: acpi: fix typo in memory hotplug MMIO region name (Igor Mammedov)
efc8188: pci: assign devfn to pci_dev before calling 
pci_device_iommu_address_space() (Le Tan)
812c105: Handle G_IO_HUP in tcp_chr_read for tcp chardev (Kirill Batuzov)
85d1277: virtio: move common virtio properties to bus class device (Ming Lei)
9b79a76: pc-dimm: error out if memory hotplug is not enabled (Igor Mammedov)
0462fae: numa: check for busy memory backend (Hu Tao)
e06cbc3: qtest: enable vhost-user-test (Nikolay Nikolaev)
9d9de25: MAINTAINERS: seccomp: change email contact for Eduardo Otubo (Eduardo 
Otubo)