[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 5.0.0-rc3 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
fourth release candidate for the QEMU 5.0 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-5.0.0-rc3.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-5.0.0-rc3.tar.xz.sig

A note from the maintainer:

  Unless there are any release critical bugs, this will be the
  final rc and we will release on Tuesday 21st April. If
  we need another rc, we'll have rc4 on Tuesday 21st and the
  final release on Tuesday 28th.

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 5.0 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/5.0

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 5.0 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.0

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc2:

20038cd7a8: Update version for v5.0.0-rc3 release (Peter Maydell)
4ff97121a3: vhost-user-gpu: Release memory returned by vu_queue_pop() with 
free() (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
1329651fb4: qga: Restrict guest-file-read count to 48 MB to avoid crashes 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
ead83a136d: qga: Extract qmp_guest_file_read() to common commands.c (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
5d3586b834: qga: Extract guest_file_handle_find() to commands-common.h 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
f62ebb6384: Revert "prevent crash when executing guest-file-read with large 
count" (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
377f8f08be: gdbstub: Introduce gdb_get_float32() to get 32-bit float registers 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
7b8c1527ae: gdbstub: Do not use memset() on GByteArray (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
bbc40fefce: gdbstub: i386: Fix gdb_get_reg16() parameter to unbreak gdb (Peter 
Xu)
4b27f9b083: target/m68k/helper: Fix m68k_fpu_gdb_get_reg() use of GByteArray 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
7ad4d5a43e: linux-user: fix /proc/self/stat handling (Alex Bennée)
469a788cdd: configure: disable PIE for Windows builds (Alex Bennée)
988ae6c3a7: configure: redirect sphinx-build check to config.log (Alex Bennée)
551affb61e: tests/docker: add docs FEATURE flag and use for test-misc (Alex 
Bennée)
84f82ddcbb: Deprecate KVM support for AArch32 (Peter Maydell)
bf3f857342: docs: Require Sphinx 1.6 or better (Peter Maydell)
152d1967f6: kernel-doc: Use c:struct for Sphinx 3.0 and later (Peter Maydell)
a62d563796: scripts/kernel-doc: Add missing close-paren in c:function 
directives (Peter Maydell)
9f5a066418: hax: Windows doesn't like posix device names (Volker Rümelin)
e43651ff88: tests: numa: test one backend with prealloc enabled (Igor Mammedov)
2a4e02d104: hostmem: set default prealloc_threads to valid value (Igor Mammedov)
516e8b7d4a: configure: Honour --disable-werror for Sphinx (Peter Maydell)
e5910d42dd: docs: Improve our gdbstub documentation (Peter Maydell)
9edfa3580f: scripts/coverity-scan: Add Docker support (Peter Maydell)
9c263d07fd: scripts/run-coverity-scan: Script to run Coverity Scan build (Peter 
Maydell)
94db8de179: linux-user/flatload.c: Use "" for include of QEMU header 
target_flat.h (Peter Maydell)
2e79802445: thread.h: Remove trailing semicolons from Coverity 
qemu_mutex_lock() etc (Peter Maydell)
062c73c51e: thread.h: Fix Coverity version of qemu_cond_timedwait() (Peter 
Maydell)
c160f17cd6: osdep.h: Drop no-longer-needed Coverity workarounds (Peter Maydell)
ce4adc0b6e: exec: Fix for qemu_ram_resize() callback (David Hildenbrand)
394f0f72fd: fw_cfg: Migrate ACPI table mr sizes separately (Shameer Kolothum)
bac78f9c69: acpi: Use macro for table-loader file name (Shameer Kolothum)
b372d79b23: MAINTAINERS: Add myself as vhost-user-blk maintainer (Raphael 
Norwitz)
267514b33f: module: increase dirs array size by one (Bruce Rogers)
d489ae4ac5: memory: Do not allow direct write access to rom_device regions 
(Alexander Duyck)
1148e4f4dc: vl.c: error out if -mem-path is used together with -M 
memory-backend (Igor Mammedov)
fb8a9677b1: rcu: do not mention atomic_mb_read/set in documentation (Paolo 
Bonzini)
de99dab06f: atomics: update documentation (Paolo Bonzini)
a4e57084c1: tcg/mips: mips sync* encode error (lixinyu)
15e8699f00: atomics: convert to reStructuredText (Paolo Bonzini)
278fb16273: oslib-posix: take lock before qemu_cond_broadcast (Bauerchen)
9a709f06c8: piix: fix xenfv regression, add compat machine xenfv-4.2 (Olaf 
Hering)
5710a3e09f: async: use explicit memory barriers (Paolo Bonzini)
3c18a92dc4: aio-wait: delegate polling of main AioContext if BQL not held 
(Paolo Bonzini)
636b836d5f: aio-posix: signal-proof fdmon-io_uring (Stefan Hajnoczi)
40bd0502db: target/rx/translate: Add missing fall through comment (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
fde557ad25: target/xtensa: statically allocate xtensa_insnbufs in DisasContext 
(Max Filippov)
1a03362b14: target/xtensa: fix pasto in pfwait.r opcode name (Max Filippov)