[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.7.0-rc1 is now a vailable

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
second release candidate for the QEMU 1.7 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.7.0-rc1.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.7 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan for the 1.7 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.7

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 1.7 release below:

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

The following changes have been made since v1.7.0-rc0:

 - vfio-pci: Fix multifunction=on (Alex Williamson)
 - target-i386: Fix addr32 prefix in gen_lea_modrm (Richard Henderson)
 - atomic.h: Fix build with clang (Peter Maydell)
 - target-i386: do not override nr_cores for -cpu host (Paolo Bonzini)
 - mips jazz: do not raise data bus exception when accessing invalid addresses 
(Hervé Poussineau)
 - target-i386: yield to another VCPU on PAUSE (Paolo Bonzini)
 - rng-egd: offset the point when repeatedly read from the buffer (Amos Kong)
 - rng-egd: remove redundant free (Amos Kong)
 - virtio-rng: add check of period (Amos Kong)
 - s390x: fix flat file load on 32 bit systems (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - acpi-build: fix build on glib < 2.14 (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - acpi-build: fix build on glib < 2.22 (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - target-openrisc: Correct carry flag check of l.addc and l.addic test cases 
(Sebastian Macke)
 - target-openrisc: Correct memory bounds checking for the tlb buffers 
(Sebastian Macke)
 - openrisc-timer: Reduce overhead, Separate clock update functions (Sebastian 
Macke)
 - target-openrisc: Correct wrong epcr register in interrupt handler (Sebastian 
Macke)
 - target-openrisc: Remove executable flag for every page (Sebastian Macke)
 - target-openrisc: Remove unnecessary code generated by jump instructions 
(Sebastian Macke)
 - target-openrisc: Speed up move instruction (Sebastian Macke)
 - The calculation of bytes_xfer in qemu_put_buffer() is wrong (Wangting 
(Kathy))
 - migration: drop MADVISE_DONT_NEED for incoming zero pages (Peter Lieven)
 - qom: Fix memory leak in object_property_set_link() (Vlad Yasevich)
 - qtest: Use -display none by default (Andreas Färber)
 - virtio-net: fix the memory leak in rxfilter_notify() (Amos Kong)
 - doc: fix hardcoded helper path (Amos Kong)
 - tcg-ia64: Introduce tcg_opc_bswap64_i (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Introduce tcg_opc_ext_i (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Introduce tcg_opc_movi_a (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Introduce tcg_opc_mov_a (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Use A3 form of logical operations (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Use SUB_A3 and ADDS_A4 for subtraction (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Use ADDS for small addition (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Avoid unnecessary stop bit in tcg_out_alu (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Move AREG0 to R32 (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Simplify brcond (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Handle constant calls (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Use shortcuts for nop insns (Richard Henderson)
 - tcg-ia64: Use TCGMemOp within qemu_ldst routines (Richard Henderson)
 - hw/i386/Makefile.obj: use $(PYTHON) to run .py scripts consistently (Michael 
Tokarev)
 - configure: Use -B switch only for Python versions which support it (Stefan 
Weil)
 - qga: Fix shutdown command of guest agent to work with SysV (whitearchey)
 - block: Fail if requested driver is not available (Kevin Wolf)
 - MAINTAINERS: add block driver sub-maintainers (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - qemu-img: Fix overwriting 'ret' before using (Fam Zheng)
 - qemu-iotests: Test qcow2 count_contiguous_clusters() (Kevin Wolf)
 - smc91c111: Fix receive starvation (Sebastian Huber)
 - qcow2: fix possible corruption when reading multiple clusters (Peter Lieven)
 - qmp: access the local QemuOptsLists for drive option (Amos Kong)
 - MAINTAINERS: add block tree repo URLs (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - qemu-iotests: Extend 041 for unbacked mirroring (Max Reitz)
 - block/drive-mirror: Check for NULL backing_hd (Max Reitz)
 - qapi-schema: Update description for NewImageMode (Max Reitz)
 - block: Print its file name if backing file opening failed (Fam Zheng)
 - pc: disable pci-info (Igor Mammedov)
 - console: Remove unused debug code (Stefan Weil)
 - qga: Fix compilation for old versions of MinGW (Stefan Weil)
 - .travis.yml: basic compile and check recipes (Alex Bennée)
 - pci-assign: Fix error_report of pci-stub message (Cole Robinson)
 - qapi: Fix comment for create-type to match code. (Fam Zheng)
 - vl: fix build when configured with no graphic support (Antony Pavlov)
 - usb: drop unused USBNetState.inpkt field (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - qemu-char: add missing characters used in keymaps (Jan Krupa)
 - qemu-char: add support for U-prefixed symbols (Jan Krupa)
 - qemu-char: add Czech keymap file (Jan Krupa)
 - qemu-char: add Czech characters to VNC keysyms (Jan Krupa)
 - MAINTAINERS: add git tree info for HMP, QMP and QAPI (Luiz Capitulino)
 - Adjust qapi-visit for python-2.4.3 (Richard Henderson)
 - Revert "exec: limit system memory size" (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - Revert "hw/pci: partially handle pci master abort" (Marcel Apfelbaum)
 - loader: drop return value for rom_add_blob_fixed (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - acpi-build: disable with -no-acpi (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - virtio-net: only delete bh that existed (Jason Wang)
 - Fix pc migration from qemu <= 1.5 (Cole Robinson)
 - virtio-net: broken RX filtering logic fixed (Dmitry Fleytman)
 - net: fix qemu_flush_queued_packets() in presence of a hub (Sergey Fedorov)
 - net: disallow to specify multicast MAC address (Dmitry Krivenok)
 - block: Round up total_sectors (Fam Zheng)
 - target-xtensa: add missing DEBUG section to dc233c config (Max Filippov)
 - exec: fix breakpoint_invalidate when pc may not be translated (Max Filippov)
 - pseries: Update SLOF firmware image (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
 - spapr: add vio-bus devices to categories (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
 - block: vhdx qemu-iotest - log replay of data sector (Jeff Cody)
 - block: qemu-iotests for vhdx, add write test support (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - update _make_test_img() to filter out vhdx options (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - add .bdrv_create() support (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - fix comment typos in header, fix incorrect struct fields (Jeff 
Cody)
 - block: vhdx - break out code operations to functions (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - move more endian translations to vhdx-endian.c (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - remove BAT file offset bit shifting (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx write support (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - add log write support (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - add region overlap detection for image files (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - log parsing, replay, and flush support (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx code movement - move vhdx_close() above vhdx_open() (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - update log guid in header, and first write tracker (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - break endian translation functions out (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - log support struct and defines (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx code movement - VHDXMetadataEntries and BDRVVHDXState to header. 
(Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - add header update capability. (Jeff Cody)
 - block: vhdx - minor comments and typo correction. (Jeff Cody)
 - block/vpc: fix virtual size for images created with disk2vhd (Peter Lieven)
 - block: Save errno before error_setg_errno (Max Reitz)
 - qdev-monitor-test: add device_add leak test cases (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - blockdev-test: add test case for drive_add duplicate IDs (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - libqtest: add qmp(fmt, ...) -> QDict* function (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - libqtest: rename qmp() to qmp_discard_response() (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - blockdev: fix drive_init() opts and bs_opts leaks (Stefan Hajnoczi)
 - block: qemu-iotests, add quotes to $TEST_IMG usage in 061 (Jeff Cody)
 - block: qemu-iotests, add quotes to $TEST_IMG usage for 051 (Jeff Cody)
 - block: qemu-iotests, removes duplicate double quotes in 039 (Jeff Cody)
 - block: qemu-iotests, add quotes to $TEST_IMG usage in 019 (Jeff Cody)
 - block: qemu-iotests, add quotes to $TEST_IMG.base usage in 017 (Jeff Cody)
 - block: qemu-iotests, fix _make_test_img() to work with spaced pathnames 
(Jeff Cody)
 - block: qemu-iotests, add quotes to $TEST_IMG usage io pattern tests (Jeff 
Cody)
 - block/raw-posix: fix FreeBSD compilation (Andreas Tobler)
 - qemu-iotests: Filter out actual image size in 067 (Max Reitz)
 - qapi: Fix comment for create-type to match code. (Fam Zheng)
 - ossaudio: check for oss support in oss_audio_init (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - Revert "ossaudio: do not enable by default" (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - kvm: Fix uninitialized cpuid_data (Stefan Weil)
 - pci-assign: Remove dead code for direct I/O region access from userspace 
(Jan Kiszka)
 - linux-user: Fix stat64 syscall for SPARC64 (Stefan Weil)
 - configure: Add config.status to recreate the current configuration (Stefan 
Weil)
 - nsis: Improved support for parallel installation of 32 and 64 bit code 
(Stefan Weil)
 - KVM: x86: fix typo in KVM_GET_XCRS (Paolo Bonzini)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori