[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.4.0-rc3 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fourth release candidate for the QEMU 2.4 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.4.0-rc3.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.4 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.4 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.4

An additional -rc4 is anticipated, so the final release date listed there
at this time may change.

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.4 release below:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.4

Changes since 2.4.0-rc2:

7008d58: Update version for v2.4.0-rc3 release (Peter Maydell)
ca96ac4: AioContext: force event loop iteration using BH (Stefan Hajnoczi)
a076972: AioContext: avoid leaking BHs on cleanup (Stefan Hajnoczi)
fed105e: virtio-blk-dataplane: delete bottom half before the AioContext is 
freed (Paolo Bonzini)
7bba83b: xen: Drop net_rx_ok (Fam Zheng)
ff1d2ac: hw/net: handle flow control in mcf_fec driver receiver (Greg Ungerer)
52579c6: net/dp8393x: do not use memory_region_init_rom_device with NULL (Hervé 
Poussineau)
30dfa9a: net/dp8393x: remove check of runt packets (Hervé Poussineau)
f635128: net/dp8393x: disable user creation (Hervé Poussineau)
da52a4d: target-mips: fix offset calculation for Interrupts (Yongbok Kim)
8bcbb83: target-mips: fix passing incompatible pointer type in machine.c (Leon 
Alrae)
325e390: block/ssh: Avoid segfault if inet_connect doesn't set errno. (Richard 
W.M. Jones)
6a55c82: sheepdog: serialize requests to overwrapping area (Hitoshi Mitake)
52c91da: memory: do not add a reference to the owner of aliased regions (Paolo 
Bonzini)
55875fc: megasas: Add write function to handle write access to PCI BAR 3 (Salva 
Peiró)
c147b51: virtio: minor cleanup (Michael S. Tsirkin)
8ef3ea2: acpi: fix pvpanic device is not shown in ui (Gal Hammer)
226d007: gdbstub: Set current CPU on interruptions (Jan Kiszka)
801db5e: qapi: add missing @ (Marc-André Lureau)
786f9ce: Fix Cortex-A9 global timer (Johannes Schlatow)
7e71e11: gitignore: Ignore shader generated files (Michal Privoznik)
7155f2c: vmstate: remove unused declaration (Marc-André Lureau)
f6288b9: make: Clean build messages (Stefan Weil)
ab60366: qemu-common.h: Document cutils.c string functions (Peter Maydell)
cc47a16: device_tree: Fix a typo (Kamalesh Babulal)
f3c30ae: hw/acpi/ich9: clean up stale comment about KVM not supporting SMM 
(Laszlo Ersek)
be66680: hw/acpi/ich9: clear smi_en on reset (Laszlo Ersek)
edec47c: main-loop: fix qemu_notify_event for aio_notify optimization (Paolo 
Bonzini)
77c102c: block: qemu-iotests - add check for multiplication overflow in vpc 
(Jeff Cody)
b15deac: block: vpc - prevent overflow if max_table_entries >= 0x40000000 (Jeff 
Cody)
3737129: configure: Work around broken static pkg-config info for Ubuntu gnutls 
(Peter Maydell)
c9b11f9: virtio-blk: only clear VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT for legacy device (Jason 
Wang)
efb8206: virtio-blk: fail get_features when both scsi and 1.0 were set (Jason 
Wang)
9d5b731: virtio: get_features() can fail (Jason Wang)
2746269: virtio-pci: fix memory MR cleanup for modern (Michael S. Tsirkin)
bbeb823: tcg: mark temps as mem_coherent = 0 for mov with a constant (Aurelien 
Jarno)
7df69de: tcg: correctly mark dead inputs for mov with a constant (Aurelien 
Jarno)
f9f7492: axienet: Flush queued packets when rx is done (Fam Zheng)
4594f93: dp8393x: Flush packets when link comes up (Fam Zheng)
1ef4a60: stellaris_enet: Flush queued packets when read done (Fam Zheng)
1dd58ae: mipsnet: Flush queued packets when receiving is enabled (Fam Zheng)
3b7031e: milkymist-minimac2: Flush queued packets when link comes up (Fam Zheng)
e813f0d: mcf_fec: Drop mcf_fec_can_receive (Fam Zheng)
575bafd: etsec: Flush queue when rx buffer is consumed (Fam Zheng)
b6cb661: etsec: Move etsec_can_receive into etsec_receive (Fam Zheng)
9134402: usbnet: Drop usbnet_can_receive (Fam Zheng)
363db4b: eepro100: Drop nic_can_receive (Fam Zheng)
b0ba0b9: pcnet: Drop pcnet_can_receive (Fam Zheng)
8c8c460: xgmac: Drop packets with eth_can_rx is false. (Fam Zheng)
491a1f4: hw/net: fix mcf_fec driver receiver (Greg Ungerer)
299f7be: hw/net: add simple phy support to mcf_fec driver (Greg Ungerer)
3634869: hw/net: add ANLPAR bit definitions to generic mii (Greg Ungerer)
3e23056: hw/net: create common collection of MII definitions (Greg Ungerer)
019c2ab: crypto: extend unit tests to cover decryption too (Daniel P. Berrange)
6775e2c: crypto: fix built-in AES decrypt function (Daniel P. Berrange)
09999a5: virtio: set any_layout in virtio core (Michael S. Tsirkin)
cd4bfbb: virtio-9p: fix any_layout (Michael S. Tsirkin)
7882080: virtio-serial: fix ANY_LAYOUT (Michael S. Tsirkin)
5f45607: virtio: hide legacy features from modern guests (Michael S. Tsirkin)
cb72cba: ide: Clear DRQ after handling all expected accesses (Kevin Wolf)
03441c3: ide/atapi: Fix START STOP UNIT command completion (Kevin Wolf)
d2ff858: ide: Check array bounds before writing to io_buffer (CVE-2015-5154) 
(Kevin Wolf)
178846b: target-i386/FPU: a misprint in helper_fistll_ST0 (Dmitry Poletaev)
d274e07: qemu-doc: fix typos (Gonglei)
c1076c3: framebuffer: set DIRTY_MEMORY_VGA on RAM that is used for the 
framebuffer (Paolo Bonzini)
deb809e: memory: count number of active VGA logging clients (Paolo Bonzini)
fb43096: vl: Fix compiler warning for builds without VNC (Stefan Weil)
7d99f4c: scsi: Handle no media case for scsi_get_configuration (Matthew Rosato)
ab28bd2: rcu: actually register threads that have RCU read-side critical 
sections (Paolo Bonzini)
c170aad: scsi: fix buffer overflow in scsi_req_parse_cdb (CVE-2015-5158) (Paolo 
Bonzini)
6092845: vnc: fix memory leak (Gonglei)
9615212: tcg/optimize: fix tcg_opt_gen_movi (Aurelien Jarno)
80adb8f: tcg/aarch64: use 32-bit offset for 32-bit softmmu emulation (Richard 
Henderson)
ffc6372: tcg/aarch64: use 32-bit offset for 32-bit user-mode emulation (Paolo 
Bonzini)
6c0f0c0: tcg/aarch64: add ext argument to tcg_out_insn_3310 (Paolo Bonzini)
ee8ba9e: tcg/i386: Extend addresses for 32-bit guests (Richard Henderson)
4bf1cb0: qemu-char: Fix missed data on unix socket (Nils Carlson)
9172f42: qemu-char: handle EINTR for TCP character devices (Paolo Bonzini)
0b8e2c1: exec.c: Use atomic_rcu_read() to access dispatch in 
memory_region_section_get_iotlb() (Peter Maydell)
759b484: vfio/pci: Fix bootindex (Alex Williamson)
69970fc: vfio/pci: Fix RTL8168 NIC quirks (Alex Williamson)
6b26996: hostmem: Fix qemu_opt_get_bool() crash in host_memory_backend_init() 
(Eduardo Habkost)