[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.12.0-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 2.12 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.12.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-2.12.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 2.12 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/2.12

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 2.12 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.12

Changes since rc0:

fa3704d877: Update version for v2.12.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
1bb982b8fc: gdbstub: send a termination packet instead of crashing gdb (KONRAD 
Frederic)
0dfddbb537: hmp.c: Revert hmp_info_cpus output format change (Satheesh 
Rajendran)
fa198ad9bd: tests: qmp-test: add test for new "x-oob" (Peter Xu)
ddee57e017: tests: Add parameter to qtest_init_without_qmp_handshake (Eric 
Blake)
be933ffc23: monitor: new parameter "x-oob" (Peter Xu)
6d2d563f8c: qmp: cleanup qmp queues properly (Peter Xu)
1a1b11dc0f: tests: add oob-test for qapi-schema (Peter Xu)
4bebca1e42: tests: let qapi-schema tests detect oob (Peter Xu)
9408860165: qapi: restrict allow-oob value to be "true" (Peter Xu)
9ddb7456c8: qmp: fix qmp_capabilities error regression (Peter Xu)
625eaca9e5: qdict: remove useless cast (Laurent Vivier)
710c263407: error: Remove NULL checks on error_propagate() calls (Laurent 
Vivier)
2d9178d90f: error: Strip trailing '\n' from error string arguments (again 
again) (Laurent Vivier)
fdf235ba15: tests: Silence false positive warning on generated test name (Eric 
Blake)
fa15cf8b5c: qmp-test: fix response leak (Marc-André Lureau)
f5a53faad4: MAINTAINERS: add include/block/aio-wait.h (Stefan Hajnoczi)
35111583aa: coroutine: add test-aio coroutine queue chaining test case (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
c40a254570: coroutine: avoid co_queue_wakeup recursion (Stefan Hajnoczi)
67a74148d8: queue: add QSIMPLEQ_PREPEND() (Stefan Hajnoczi)
eb69953ecb: macio: fix NULL pointer dereference when issuing IDE trim (Mark 
Cave-Ayland)
caeadbc8ba: ide: fix invalid TRIM range abortion for macio (Anton Nefedov)
d0ce7e9cfc: target/xtensa: fix timers test (Max Filippov)
12ab0b33f1: linux-user/xtensa: remove stray syscall.h (Max Filippov)
2745c3bbf3: target/xtensa/import_core.sh: fix #include <xtensa-isa.h> (Max 
Filippov)
dda2441b2b: target/xtensa: add .inc. to non-top level source file names (Max 
Filippov)
a77672ea3d: vmdk: return ERROR when cluster sector is larger than vmdk 
limitation (yuchenlin)
f7640f0dbc: iotests: enable shared migration cases in 169 (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
2d949dfcef: qcow2: fix bitmaps loading when bitmaps already exist (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
b1336cc2ec: qcow2-bitmap: add qcow2_reopen_bitmaps_rw_hint() (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
ebd0e15114: target/hppa: Include priv level in user-only iaoq (Richard 
Henderson)
83d7c40c92: scripts/decodetree: Fix insnmask not marked as global in main() 
(Bastian Koppelmann)
f8e1a98964: qemu-pr-helper: Actually allow users to specify pidfile (Michal 
Privoznik)
12051d82f0: chardev/char-fe: Allow NULL chardev in qemu_chr_fe_init() (Peter 
Maydell)
90c558beca: iothread: fix breakage on windows (Peter Xu)
09c2c6ffda: scsi: turn "is this a SCSI device?" into a conditional hint (Paolo 
Bonzini)
ff82fab792: chardev-socket: remove useless if (Paolo Bonzini)
87f963be66: tcg: Really fix cpu_io_recompile (Richard Henderson)
8e029fd64e: vhost-user-test: add back memfd check (Marc-André Lureau)
642e065a15: vhost-user-test: do not hang if chardev creation failed (Marc-André 
Lureau)
6ff8d9b03a: scripts/device-crash-test: Remove fixed isapc-with-iommu entry 
(Thomas Huth)
c9073238fc: hw/audio: Fix crashes when devices are used on ISA bus without DMA 
(Thomas Huth)
b3da551389: fdc: Exit if ISA controller does not support DMA (Alexey 
Kardashevskiy)
089eac81e1: hw/net/can: Fix segfaults when using the devices without bus 
(Thomas Huth)
4e286099fe: WHPX improve vcpu_post_run perf (Justin Terry (VM))
60168541da: WHPX fix WHvSetPartitionProperty in PropertyCode (Justin Terry (VM))
3907e6318e: WHPX fix WHvGetCapability out WrittenSizeInBytes (Justin Terry (VM))
36b4cf1934: scripts/get_maintainer.pl: Print proper error message for missing 
$file (Ian Jackson)
0b7e7f6681: qemu-iotests: Test vhdx image creation with QMP (Kevin Wolf)
6f16f7c562: vhdx: Check for 4 GB maximum log size on creation (Kevin Wolf)
0fcc38e7d0: vhdx: Don't use error_setg_errno() with constant errno (Kevin Wolf)
b412f49407: vhdx: Require power-of-two block size on create (Kevin Wolf)
e8f6ea6fb6: qemu-iotests: Test parallels image creation with QMP (Kevin Wolf)
2332d82589: parallels: Check maximum cluster size on create (Kevin Wolf)
50880f25c8: qemu-iotests: Test invalid resize on luks (Kevin Wolf)
120bc742c0: luks: Turn another invalid assertion into check (Kevin Wolf)
633c175f8c: qemu-iotests: Enable 025 for luks (Kevin Wolf)
b7de0777dc: qemu-iotests: Test vdi image creation with QMP (Kevin Wolf)
95a14d51b2: vdi: Fix build with CONFIG_VDI_DEBUG (Kevin Wolf)
61fa64871d: vdi: Change 'static' create option to 'preallocation' in QMP (Kevin 
Wolf)
abf754fe40: qcow2: Reset free_cluster_index when allocating a new refcount 
block (Alberto Garcia)
1e486cf30a: include/block/block_int: Document protocol related functions 
(Fabiano Rosas)
8140e786f0: block/blkreplay: Remove protocol-related fields (Fabiano Rosas)
a7328ba55f: block/throttle: Remove protocol-related fields (Fabiano Rosas)
65d2c3e2f6: block/quorum: Remove protocol-related fields (Fabiano Rosas)
cb83d2efe1: block/replication: Remove protocol_name field (Fabiano Rosas)
71b74b2544: iotests: 163 is not quick (Eric Blake)
7587855cd2: net/vde: print error on vde_open() failure (Julia Suvorova via 
Qemu-devel)
94b52958b7: virtio_net: flush uncompleted TX on reset (Greg Kurz)
548f514cf8: target/arm: Always set FAR to a known unknown value for debug 
exceptions (Peter Maydell)
62b94f31d0: target/arm: Set FSR for BKPT, BRK when raising exception (Peter 
Maydell)
81621d9ab8: target/arm: Factor out code to calculate FSR for debug exceptions 
(Peter Maydell)
c900a2e62d: target/arm: Honour MDCR_EL2.TDE when routing exceptions due to 
BKPT/BRK (Peter Maydell)
dfadc3bfb4: mach-virt: Set VM's SMBIOS system version to mc->name (Wei Huang)
478a573a7d: i.MX: Support serial RS-232 break properly (Trent Piepho)
2b0b93210a: hw/arm/bcm2836: Use the Cortex-A7 instead of Cortex-A15 (Peter 
Maydell)
a2e2d7fc46: hw/intc/arm_gicv3: Fix secure-GIC NS ICC_PMR and ICC_RPR accesses 
(Peter Maydell)
544156efcf: sdhci: fix incorrect use of Error * (Paolo Bonzini)
a75a52d624: arm/translate-a64: treat DISAS_UPDATE as variant of DISAS_EXIT 
(Victor Kamensky)
09576e74db: migration: Fix block migration flag case (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
39615354fc: qapi: Force UTF8 encoding when parsing qapi files (Eric Blake)
a4f90923b5: Revert "monitor: enable IO thread for (qmp & !mux) typed" (Peter Xu)
cc797607c0: Revert "tests: qmp-test: verify command batching" (Peter Xu)
4fd78ad793: Revert "tests: qmp-test: add oob test" (Peter Xu)
b47d1e9fe0: migration/block: compare only read blocks against the rate limiter 
(Peter Lieven)
44815334e1: migration/block: limit the number of parallel I/O requests (Peter 
Lieven)
e8a0f2f9a1: migration: Fix rate limiting issue on RDMA migration (Lidong Chen)
bdd847a026: migration: convert socket server to QIONetListener (Daniel P. 
Berrange)
6f559013c8: hw/rdma: Fix 32-bit compilation (Yuval Shaia)
94f480b8db: hw/rdma: Use correct print format in CHK_ATTR macro (Yuval Shaia)
9bbb8d3577: hw/rdma: Change host_virt to void * (Yuval Shaia)
197053e212: hw/rdma: fix clang compilation errors (Marcel Apfelbaum)
9edc19c939: make: switch from -I to -iquote (Michael S. Tsirkin)
0efc9511aa: rdma: fix up include directives (Michael S. Tsirkin)
79cfdca7aa: hw/rdma: Add support for Query QP verb to pvrdma device (Yuval 
Shaia)
c99f217431: hw/rdma: Add Query QP operation (Yuval Shaia)
06a97edac1: s390x/cpumodel: fix feature groups and breakage of MSA8 (Christian 
Borntraeger)
57da367b9e: s390x/pci: forbid multifunction pci device (Yi Min Zhao)
d522e0bd18: gitmodules: Use the QEMU mirror of qemu-palcode (Peter Maydell)
e2679395d5: tests/multiboot: Add .gitignore (Kevin Wolf)
1c8c426fb4: tests/multiboot: Add tests for the a.out kludge (Kevin Wolf)
49713c413a: tests/multiboot: Test exit code for every qemu run (Kevin Wolf)
dbf2dce7aa: multiboot: Check validity of mh_header_addr (Kevin Wolf)
b17a9054a0: multiboot: Reject kernels exceeding the address space (Kevin Wolf)
4b17bc933f: dump-guest-memory: more descriptive lookup_type failure (Andrew 
Jones)
0c33659d09: dump.c: allow fd_write_vmcore to return errno on failure (Yasmin 
Beatriz)
ffbf24bdb2: tpm: CRB: query backend for TPM established flag (Stefan Berger)
de4a22d0fa: tpm: CRB: reset locAssigned upon relinquishing locality (Stefan 
Berger)
e1880ed80a: tpm: CRB: set registers to 0 by default (Stefan Berger)
be052a3b3d: tpm: CRB: Set tpmRegValidSts flag to '1' in device reset (Stefan 
Berger)
2a53535af4: linux-user: init_guest_space: Try to make ARM space+commpage 
continuous (Luke Shumaker)