[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.3.0-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 2.3 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.3.0-rc2.tar.bz2

A number of small fixes are anticipated for rc3, which is planned for
Thursday, April 9th.

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.3 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.3 release is available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.3

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.3 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.3

Changes since 2.3.0-rc1:

f2155a0: Update version for v2.3.0-rc2 release (Peter Maydell)
14655e9: glib-compat: fix problems with not-quite glib 2.22 (Cornelia Huck)
fb8597b: Use $(MAKE) for recursive make (Ed Maste)
4cc856f: kvm-all: Sync dirty-bitmap from kvm before kvm destroy the 
corresponding dirty_bitmap (zhanghailiang)
0a7cf21: util/qemu-config: fix regression of qmp_query_command_line_options 
(Marcel Apfelbaum)
9cb11fd: target-i386: clear bsp bit when designating bsp (Nadav Amit)
420957a: qga: fitering out -fstack-protector-strong (Joseph Hindin)
cbea0c2: target-i386: save 64-bit CR3 in 64-bit SMM state save area (Paolo 
Bonzini)
9f9bdf4: sysbus: Make devices picking up backends unavailable with -device 
(Markus Armbruster)
1910913: sdhci: Make device "sdhci-pci" unavailable with -device (Markus 
Armbruster)
19f33f1: hw: Mark device misusing nd_table[] FIXME (Markus Armbruster)
d71b22b: hw: Mark devices picking up char backends actively FIXME (Markus 
Armbruster)
af9e40a: hw: Mark devices picking up block backends actively FIXME (Markus 
Armbruster)
11f10cf: hw/arm/vexpress: Don't double-free flash filename (Peter Maydell)
c408d27: hw/arm/virt: Fix corruption due to double free (Shannon Zhao)
25b9fb1: target-arm: kvm64 fix save/restore of SPSR regs (Alex Bennée)
0e4b586: target-arm: kvm64 sync FP register state (Alex Bennée)
74fdb78: hw/intc: arm_gic_kvm.c restore config first (Alex Bennée)
1a1753f: target-arm: kvm: save/restore mp state (Alex Bennée)
7847f9e: target-arm: Store SPSR_EL1 state in banked_spsr[1] (SPSR_svc) (Peter 
Maydell)
4de9a88: hw/arm/virt: Fix memory leak reported by Coverity (Stefan Weil)
db25a15: hw/arm/vexpress: Fix memory leak reported by Coverity (Stefan Weil)
60ff4e6: hw/arm/highbank: Fix resource leak and wrong image loading (Stefan 
Weil)
2cdb5e1: CVE-2015-1779: limit size of HTTP headers from websockets clients 
(Daniel P. Berrange)
a2bebfd: CVE-2015-1779: incrementally decode websocket frames (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
4025446: Revert "exec: Respect as_tranlsate_internal length clamp" (Paolo 
Bonzini)
a59629f: rcu: do not create thread in pthread_atfork callback (Paolo Bonzini)
e65bef6: pc: acpi: fix pvpanic regression (Igor Mammedov)
36bce5c: hostmem: Prevent removing an in-use memory backend (Lin Ma)
d6edb15: qom: Add can_be_deleted callback to UserCreatableClass (Lin Ma)
a18bb41: qom: Fix object_property_add_alias() with [*] (Andreas Färber)
6ca90ff: i440fx-test: Fix test paths to include architecture (Andreas Färber)
45b0f83: qtest: Add qtest_add() wrapper macro (Andreas Färber)
7949c0e: qtest: Add qtest_add_data_func() wrapper function (Andreas Färber)
53850b8: fw_cfg-test: Fix test path to include architecture (Andreas Färber)
f1fdaf5: target-tricore: fix CACHEA/I_POSTINC/PREINC using data register.. 
(Bastian Koppelmann)
fa92e21: s390x/ipl: avoid sign extension (Cornelia Huck)
f65025c: s390x: do not include ram_addr.h (Paolo Bonzini)
d03a363: virtio-ccw: range check in READ_VQ_CONF (Cornelia Huck)
590fe57: virtio-ccw: fix range check for SET_VQ (Cornelia Huck)
fc3d8e1: AHCI: Protect cmd register (John Snow)
a13ab5a: AHCI: Do not (re)map FB/CLB buffers while not running (John Snow)
4e60a25: hw/net/e1000: fix integer endianness (Shannon Zhao)
da2cf4e: block: Document blockdev-add's immaturity (Markus Armbruster)
61815d6: qemu-iotests: Test unaligned 4k zero write (Fam Zheng)
fc3959e: block: Fix unaligned zero write (Fam Zheng)
2115f2a: nvme: Fix unintentional integer overflow (OVERFLOW_BEFORE_WIDEN) 
(Stefan Weil)
896848f: seccomp: libseccomp version varying according to arch (Eduardo Otubo)
4cdfc93: gtk: do not call gtk_widget_get_window if drawing area is not 
initialized (Hervé Poussineau)
43edc0e: migration:  remove last_sent_block from save_page_header (Juan 
Quintela)
80b262e: rdma: Fix cleanup in error paths (Padmanabh Ratnakar)
7c76235: Avoid crashing on multiple -incoming (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
4020db0: virtio-scsi-dataplane: fix memory leak for VirtIOSCSIVring (Ting Wang)
fe75270: misc: fix typos in copyright declaration (Gonglei)
f18c69c: exec: avoid possible overwriting of mmaped area in qemu_ram_remap 
(Paolo Bonzini)
c6e7650: powerpc: fix -machine usb=no for newworld and pseries machines (Paolo 
Bonzini)
5b2128d: PPC: pseries: Implement boot once=foo (Alexander Graf)
fda276c: target-ppc: Remove POWER5+ v0.0 that never existed (Alexey 
Kardashevskiy)
4c56440: spapr: Add missing checks for NULL pointers and report failures 
(Stefan Weil)
0d2f830: pseries: Update SLOF firmware image to qemu-slof-20150313 (Alexey 
Kardashevskiy)
8e7ba4e: sparc: memory: Replace memory_region_init_ram with 
memory_region_allocate_system_memory (Dirk Müller)
6a926fb: mips: memory: Replace memory_region_init_ram with 
memory_region_allocate_system_memory (Dirk Müller)
1d5bfde: m68k: memory: Replace memory_region_init_ram with 
memory_region_allocate_system_memory (Dirk Müller)
7e0e736: virtio-net: validate backend queue numbers against bus limitation 
(Jason Wang)
7976a6d: virtio-serial: fix virtio config size (Michael S. Tsirkin)
c167e2e: acpi: Add missing GCC_FMT_ATTR to local function (Stefan Weil)
78fa62f: nbd: Fix up comment after commit e140177 (Markus Armbruster)
0dc40f2: vmw_pvscsi: use PCI DMA APIs (Paolo Bonzini)
16578c6: megasas: use PCI DMA APIs (Paolo Bonzini)
bdd459a: cpus: Don't kick un-realized cpus. (Peter Crosthwaite)
4bc7b4d: i6300esb: Fix signed integer overflow (David Gibson)
06b82e2: i6300esb: Correct endiannness (David Gibson)
3a5c76b: fw_cfg: factor out initialization of FW_CFG_ID (rev. number) (Gabriel 
L. Somlo)
8a5956a: rcu tests: fix compilation on 32-bit ppc (Paolo Bonzini)
8e27fc2: seccomp: update libseccomp version and remove arch restriction 
(Eduardo Otubo)