[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 4.2.0-rc2 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
third release candidate for the QEMU 4.2 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.2.0-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.2.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 4.2 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/4.2

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 4.2 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.2

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc1:

39e2821077: Update version for v4.2.0-rc2 release (Peter Maydell)
abc7cf3655: hw/mips/gt64xxx: Remove dynamic field width from trace events 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
10f9f1fbed: hw/block/pflash: Remove dynamic field width from trace events 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
04c9c81b8f: target/arm: Support EL0 v7m msr/mrs for CONFIG_USER_ONLY (Richard 
Henderson)
d46ad79efa: target/arm: Relax r13 restriction for ldrex/strex for v8.0 (Richard 
Henderson)
655b02646d: target/arm: Do not reject rt == rt2 for strexd (Richard Henderson)
6623d21445: net/cadence_gem: Set PHY autonegotiation restart status (Linus 
Ziegert)
3a6606c7aa: ssi: xilinx_spips: Skip spi bus update for a few register writes 
(Sai Pavan Boddu)
6e553f2a1b: target/arm: Merge arm_cpu_vq_map_next_smaller into sole caller 
(Richard Henderson)
83ad95957c: pl031: Expose RTCICR as proper WC register (Alexander Graf)
7a3e29b12f: mc146818rtc: fix timer interrupt reinjection again (Paolo Bonzini)
3ae32adff1: Revert "mc146818rtc: fix timer interrupt reinjection" (Paolo 
Bonzini)
0d074bf8e7: scsi: deprecate scsi-disk (Paolo Bonzini)
2f34ebf222: hw/i386: Move save_tsc_khz from PCMachineClass to X86MachineClass 
(Liam Merwick)
62e9dc3582: docs/microvm.rst: add instructions for shutting down the guest 
(Sergio Lopez)
ff9d708933: docs/microvm.rst: fix alignment in "Limitations" (Sergio Lopez)
7771e1ae1b: vfio: vfio-pci requires EDID (Paolo Bonzini)
c9d6da3a5e: hw/i386: Fix compiler warning when CONFIG_IDE_ISA is disabled 
(Thomas Huth)
7fac38635e: target/i386: Export TAA_NO bit to guests (Pawan Gupta)
7f7a585d5b: target/i386: add PSCHANGE_NO bit for the ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR 
(Paolo Bonzini)
c3157b74c4: microvm: fix memory leak in microvm_fix_kernel_cmdline (Sergio 
Lopez)
b73f059cf2: scripts: Detect git worktrees for get_maintainer.pl --git (Alexey 
Kardashevskiy)
2895aaa139: monitor/qmp: resume monitor when clearing its queue (Wolfgang 
Bumiller)
296416ff0f: tests: More iotest 223 improvements (Eric Blake)
a98b1a1fef: iotests: Include QMP input in .out files (Eric Blake)
f3923a72f1: iotests: Switch nbd tests to use Unix rather than TCP (Eric Blake)
509e91c127: iotests: Fix 173 (Eric Blake)
052db8e714: MAINTAINERS: add more bitmap-related to Dirty Bitmaps section 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
93676c88d7: nbd: Don't send oversize strings (Eric Blake)
cf7c49cf6a: bitmap: Enforce maximum bitmap name length (Eric Blake)
9d7ab222da: nbd/server: Prefer heap over stack for parsing client names (Eric 
Blake)
f61ffad53f: qemu-coroutine-sleep: Silence Coverity warning (Eric Blake)
a4d925f8f0: iotests: Test NBD client reconnection (Andrey Shinkevich)
29b95c992a: vfio: vfio-pci requires EDID (Paolo Bonzini)
ed92369a57: vfio: don't ignore return value of migrate_add_blocker (Jens 
Freimann)
1335d64323: hw/vfio/pci: Fix double free of migration_blocker (Michal Privoznik)
b1f6a8e180: iotests: Test multiple blockdev-snapshot calls (Kevin Wolf)
ae0f57f0aa: block: Remove 'backing': null from bs->{explicit_,}options (Kevin 
Wolf)
d44abcc0f7: iotests: Fix "no qualified output" error path (Kevin Wolf)
dbf231d7b4: qemu-iotests/iotests.py: improve assert_qmp message (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
0285747737: seabios: update to pre-1.13 snapshot again (Gerd Hoffmann)
cd8843ff25: mos6522: fix T1 and T2 timers (Laurent Vivier)
165dc3edd7: spapr/kvm: Set default cpu model for all machine classes (David 
Gibson)
a49f62b9fd: spapr: Add /chosen to FDT only at reset time to preserve kernel and 
initramdisk (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
0a83b47055: ppc: Skip partially initialized vCPUs in 'info pic' (Greg Kurz)
35886de140: xive, xics: Fix reference counting on CPU objects (Greg Kurz)
0990ce6a2e: ppc: Add intc_destroy() handlers to 
SpaprInterruptController/PnvChip (Greg Kurz)
369e8f5bbd: buildfix: update texinfo menu (Gerd Hoffmann)
6911fde410: riscv/virt: Increase flash size (Alistair Francis)
3158add2bd: opensbi: Upgrade from v0.4 to v0.5 (Alistair Francis)
7ec5d3030b: target/riscv: Remove atomic accesses to MIP CSR (Alistair Francis)
f480f6e8c5: remove unnecessary ifdef TARGET_RISCV64 (hiroyuki.obinata)
0221d73ce6: seabios: update to pre-1.13 snapshot (Gerd Hoffmann)