[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.11.0-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 2.11 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.11.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.11.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.11 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/2.11

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.11 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.11

Changes since rc0:

1fa0f627d0: Update version for v2.11.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
8b2d7c364d: qemu-iotests: update unsupported image formats in 194 (Jeff Cody)
1d0f37cf21: block/parallels: add migration blocker (Jeff Cody)
6c7d390b99: block/parallels: Do not update header or truncate image when 
INMIGRATE (Jeff Cody)
7479bf07c4: block/vhdx.c: Don't blindly update the header (Jeff Cody)
d04c155503: iotests: 077: Filter out 'resume' lines (Fam Zheng)
04dec3c3ae: block/snapshot: dirty all dirty bitmaps on snapshot-switch 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
bcb5270c75: qcow2: Check that corrupted images can be repaired in iotest 060 
(Alberto Garcia)
147b44be49: iotests: Use new-style NBD connections (Eric Blake)
19026817f7: iotests: Make 136 less flaky (Max Reitz)
ddc7093eec: iotests: Make 083 less flaky (Max Reitz)
bc11aee2ac: iotests: Make 055 less flaky (Max Reitz)
51c493c5cc: iotests: Add missing 'blkdebug::' in 040 (Max Reitz)
dca9b6a2b1: iotests: Make 030 less flaky (Max Reitz)
c9b83e9c23: qcow2: Assert that the crypto header does not overlap other 
metadata (Alberto Garcia)
ef083f61af: qcow2: Add iotest for an empty refcount table (Alberto Garcia)
5a45da5ef8: qcow2: Add iotest for an image with header.refcount_table_offset == 
0 (Alberto Garcia)
951053a9ec: qcow2: Don't open images with header.refcount_table_clusters == 0 
(Alberto Garcia)
8aa34834d5: qcow2: Prevent allocating compressed clusters at offset 0 (Alberto 
Garcia)
9883975050: qcow2: Prevent allocating L2 tables at offset 0 (Alberto Garcia)
6bf45d59f9: qcow2: Prevent allocating refcount blocks at offset 0 (Alberto 
Garcia)
6350b2a09b: seabios: update to 1.11 final (Gerd Hoffmann)
dcb556fc6a: xics/kvm: synchonize state before 'info pic' (Greg Kurz)
e05fba5004: target/ppc: correct htab shift for hash on radix (Sam Bobroff)
0761562687: qemu-iotests: Test I/O limits with removable media (Alberto Garcia)
c89bcf3af0: block: Leave valid throttle timers when removing a BDS from a 
backend (Alberto Garcia)
48bf7ea81a: block: Check for inserted BlockDriverState in 
blk_io_limits_disable() (Alberto Garcia)
dc868fb03b: throttle-groups: drain before detaching ThrottleState (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
632a773543: block: all I/O should be completed before removing throttle timers. 
(Zhengui)
d25f2a7227: accel/tcg/translate-all: expand cpu_restore_state addr check (Alex 
Bennée)
7264961934: hw: add .min_cpus and .default_cpus fields to machine_class (Emilio 
G. Cota)
1342b0355e: xlnx-zcu102: Specify the max number of CPUs for the EP108 (Emilio 
G. Cota)
83926ad527: xlnx-zcu102: Add an info message deprecating the EP108 (Alistair 
Francis)
6908ec448b: xlnx-zynqmp: Properly support the smp command line option (Alistair 
Francis)
2dda635410: qom: move CPUClass.tcg_initialize to a global (Emilio G. Cota)
670bc4cbda: MAINTAINERS: Add entries for Smartfusion2 (Subbaraya Sundeep)
c5c752af8c: highbank: validate register offset before access (Prasad J Pandit)
5ca66278c8: arm/translate-a64: mark path as unreachable to eliminate warning 
(Emilio G. Cota)
bb160b571f: net/socket: fix coverity issue (Jens Freimann)
5e89dc0113: Add new PCI ID for i82559a (Mike Nawrocki)
1865e288a8: Fix eepro100 simple transmission mode (Mike Nawrocki)
8fa5ad6dfb: colo: Consolidate the duplicate code chunk into a routine (Mao 
Zhongyi)
3463218c6c: colo-compare: Fix comments (Mao Zhongyi)
8ec1440202: colo-compare: compare the packet in a specified Connection (Mao 
Zhongyi)
8850d4caa7: colo-compare: Insert packet into the suitable position of packet 
queue directly (Mao Zhongyi)
ff86d57625: net: fix check for number of parameters to -netdev socket (Jens 
Freimann)
2e9a856570: ui: use QEMU_IS_ALIGNED macro (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
cf7040e284: vmsvga: use ARRAY_SIZE macro (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
115788d7a7: vga: fix region checks in wraparound case (Gerd Hoffmann)
777c5f1e43: ui: fix dcl unregister (Gerd Hoffmann)
c53f5b89f1: virtio-gpu: fix bug in host memory calculation. (Tao Wu)
990132cda9: slirp: don't zero the whole ti_i when m == NULL (Tao Wu)
ef8c887ee0: nbd/server: Fix structured read of length 0 (Eric Blake)
b4176cb314: nbd-client: Stricter enforcing of structured reply spec (Eric Blake)
9d8f818cde: nbd-client: Short-circuit 0-length operations (Eric Blake)
efdc0c103d: nbd: Fix struct name for structured reads (Eric Blake)
079d3266c7: nbd/client: Nicer trace of structured reply (Eric Blake)
1104d83c72: nbd-client: Refuse read-only client with BDRV_O_RDWR (Eric Blake)
e659fb3b99: nbd-client: Fix error message typos (Eric Blake)
fdaae35143: target/s390x: Finish implementing RISBGN (Richard Henderson)
9f81aeb5da: Makefile: Capstone: Add support for cross compile ranlib (Alistair 
Francis)
15fa1a0ae0: disas: Dump insn bytes along with capstone disassembly (Richard 
Henderson)
46321d6b5f: nbd/server: fix nbd_negotiate_handle_info (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
ef6dada8b4: util/async: use atomic_mb_set in qemu_bh_cancel (Sergio Lopez)
f1710638ed: crypto: afalg: fix a NULL pointer dereference (Longpeng)
b417a7624c: tests: Run the luks tests in test-crypto-block only if encryption 
is available (Thomas Huth)
2c28c49057: s390x/pci: let pci devices start in configured mode (Christian 
Borntraeger)
fb0c43f34e: tests-aio-multithread: fix /aio/multi/schedule race condition 
(Stefan Hajnoczi)
6423795efc: docker: correctly escape $BACKEND in the help output (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
c1958e9d54: docker: Improved image checksum (Fam Zheng)
c91c187f71: e500: ppce500_init_mpic() return device instead of IRQ array 
(Michael Davidsaver)
79b217dedb: hw/display/sm501: Fix comment in sm501_sysbus_class_init() (Thomas 
Huth)
e4f0c6bb1a: ppc: fix setting of compat mode (Greg Kurz)