[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.0-rc4 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fifth release candidate for the QEMU 2.6 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.6.0-rc4.tar.bz2

The final release is planned for next week.

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.6 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
candidates, are available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.6

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.6 release below:

http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.6

Changes since rc3:

975eb6a: Update version for v2.6.0-rc4 release (Peter Maydell)
1beb99f: Revert "acpi: mark PMTIMER as unlocked" (Gerd Hoffmann)
277abf1: configure: Check if struct fsxattr is available from linux header (Jan 
Vesely)
1dbfd78: acpi: fix bios linker loadder COMMAND_ALLOCATE on bigendian host (Igor 
Mammedov)
d208c50: vvfat: Fix default volume label (Kevin Wolf)
ebb72c9: vvfat: Fix volume name assertion (Kevin Wolf)
0a40bda: qapi: Don't pass NULL to printf in string input visitor (Eric Blake)
0d48dfe: slirp: fix guest network access with darwin host (Samuel Thibault)
d96391c: target-mips: Fix RDHWR exception host PC (James Hogan)
51b9b47: qom: -object error messages lost location, restore it (Markus 
Armbruster)
d9d3aae: replay: Fix dangling location bug in replay_configure() (Markus 
Armbruster)
37f3234: QemuOpts: Fix qemu_opts_foreach() dangling location regression (Markus 
Armbruster)
df18b2d: spapr_drc: fix aborts during DRC-count based hotplug (Michael Roth)
f419a62: usb/uhci: move pid check (Gerd Hoffmann)
da34fed: hw/ppc/spapr: Fix crash when specifying bad parameters to 
spapr-pci-host-bridge (Thomas Huth)
ab27c3b: mirror: Workaround for unexpected iohandler events during completion 
(Fam Zheng)
37989ce: aio-posix: Skip external nodes in aio_dispatch (Fam Zheng)
14560d6: virtio: Mark host notifiers as external (Fam Zheng)
54e18d3: event-notifier: Add "is_external" parameter (Fam Zheng)
bcd82a9: iohandler: Introduce iohandler_get_aio_context (Fam Zheng)
ee1e0f8: util: align memory allocations to 2M on AArch64 (Christoffer Dall)
df7b97f: nbd: Don't mishandle unaligned client requests (Eric Blake)