[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.0-rc4 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 2.5 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.5.0-rc4.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.5 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 2.5 release is available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.5 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.5

Major issues fixed in this latest RC can be viewed here:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5#Fixed_in_rc4

This is the last planned RC before the official 2.5.0 release, which
is scheduled for Wednesday, December 16th. Assuming nothing catastrophic
is discovered, no additional changes are planned prior to the release.

Changes since rc3:

f05b42d: Update version for v2.5.0-rc4 release (Peter Maydell)
6e0abc2: blockdev: Mark {insert, remove}-medium experimental (Max Reitz)
3fd3c4b: Fix xbzrle vs last_sent_block update (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
b969526: Update language files for QEMU 2.5.0 (Peter Maydell)
bd4e097: sparc: allow CASA with ASI 0xa from user space (Alex Zuepke)
a3154cc: MAINTAINERS: add maintainer to virtio-9p (Greg Kurz)
6cecf09: virtio-9p-device: add minimal unrealize handler (Greg Kurz)