[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.2.0-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 6.2 release. This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.2.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.2.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 6.2 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs using our GitLab issue tracker:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues

The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
candidates, are available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/6.2

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 6.2 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.2

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc0:

67f9968ce3: Update version for v6.2.0-rc1 release (Richard Henderson)
9968de0a4a: gitlab: skip cirrus jobs on master and stable branches (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
60bec83e8a: gitlab-ci: Split custom-runners.yml in one file per runner 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
d7c2e2b3f4: Jobs based on custom runners: add CentOS Stream 8 (Cleber Rosa)
a399f9143e: meson: remove useless libdl test (Paolo Bonzini)
ebd654aabc: tests/vm: don't build using TCG by default (Alex Bennée)
81c9b06ea0: tests/vm: sort the special variable list (Alex Bennée)
d47e3751b5: tests/docker: force NOUSER=1 for base images (Alex Bennée)
3d212b41e9: nbd/server: Add --selinux-label option (Richard W.M. Jones)
76df2b8d69: nbd/server: Silence clang sanitizer warning (Eric Blake)
5dbd0ce115: file-posix: Fix alignment after reopen changing O_DIRECT (Kevin 
Wolf)
c9d4e42a8f: softmmu/qdev-monitor: fix use-after-free in qdev_set_id() (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
4d8b0f0a95: docs: Deprecate incorrectly typed device_add arguments (Kevin Wolf)
16e29cc050: iotests/030: Unthrottle parallel jobs in reverse (Hanna Reitz)
b0a9f6fed3: block: Let replace_child_noperm free children (Hanna Reitz)
82b54cf516: block: Let replace_child_tran keep indirect pointer (Hanna Reitz)
079bff693b: transactions: Invoke clean() after everything else (Hanna Reitz)
562bda8bb4: block: Restructure remove_file_or_backing_child() (Hanna Reitz)
be64bbb014: block: Pass BdrvChild ** to replace_child_noperm (Hanna Reitz)
2651806141: block: Drop detached child from ignore list (Hanna Reitz)
04c9c3a52c: block: Unite remove_empty_child and child_free (Hanna Reitz)
a225369bce: block: Manipulate children list in .attach/.detach (Hanna Reitz)
8d3dd037d9: stream: Traverse graph after modification (Hanna Reitz)
7b6d1bc962: tests/unit/test-smp-parse: Explicit MachineClass name (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
c3440eff4c: tests/unit/test-smp-parse: QOM'ify smp_machine_class_init() 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
2523a79565: tests/unit/test-smp-parse: Restore MachineClass fields after 
modifying (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
1adf528ec3: hw/rtc/pl031: Send RTC_CHANGE QMP event (Eric Auger)
e5cba10ee1: hw/intc/arm_gicv3: Support multiple redistributor regions (Peter 
Maydell)
046164155a: hw/intc/arm_gicv3: Set GICR_TYPER.Last correctly when 
nb_redist_regions > 1 (Peter Maydell)
01b5ab8cc0: hw/intc/arm_gicv3: Move checking of redist-region-count to 
arm_gicv3_common_realize (Peter Maydell)
18416c62e3: pcie: expire pending delete (Gerd Hoffmann)
0d33415a4e: pcie: fast unplug when slot power is off (Gerd Hoffmann)
44242d4d3d: pcie: factor out pcie_cap_slot_unplug() (Gerd Hoffmann)
81124b3c7a: pcie: add power indicator blink check (Gerd Hoffmann)
d5daff7d31: pcie: implement slot power control for pcie root ports (Gerd 
Hoffmann)
23786d1344: pci: implement power state (Gerd Hoffmann)
c829540401: vdpa: Check for existence of opts.vhostdev (Eugenio Pérez)
0351152b6f: vdpa: Replace qemu_open_old by qemu_open at (Eugenio Pérez)
d152cdd6f6: virtio: use virtio accessor to access packed event (Jason Wang)
f463e761a4: virtio: use virtio accessor to access packed descriptor flags 
(Jason Wang)
7e6055c99f: tests: bios-tables-test update expected blobs (Igor Mammedov)
211afe5c69: hw/i386/acpi-build: Deny control on PCIe Native Hot-plug in _OSC 
(Julia Suvorova)
be12e3a016: bios-tables-test: Allow changes in DSDT ACPI tables (Julia Suvorova)
c318bef762: hw/acpi/ich9: Add compat prop to keep HPC bit set for 6.1 machine 
type (Julia Suvorova)
2aa1842d6d: pcie: rename 'native-hotplug' to 'x-native-hotplug' (Igor Mammedov)
d58f01733b: tcg/s390x: Fix tcg_out_vec_op argument type (Miroslav Rezanina)
8d30f0473e: tcg: Document ctpop opcodes (Richard Henderson)
f1f727ac8a: tcg: Remove TCI experimental status (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
225bec0c0e: tcg/optimize: Add an extra cast to fold_extract2 (Richard Henderson)
d139786e1b: ppc/mmu_helper.c: do not truncate 'ea' in 
booke206_invalidate_ea_tlb() (Daniel Henrique Barboza)
be81ba6042: hw/mem/pc-dimm: Restrict NUMA-specific code to NUMA machines 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
14c81b2191: vhost: Fix last vq queue index of devices with no cvq (Eugenio 
Pérez)
245cf2c24e: vhost: Rename last_index to vq_index_end (Eugenio Pérez)
b66cecb238: softmmu/qdev-monitor: fix use-after-free in qdev_set_id() (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
cd523a4181: net/vhost-vdpa: fix memory leak in vhost_vdpa_get_max_queue_pairs() 
(Stefano Garzarella)
2c3132279b: sgx: Reset the vEPC regions during VM reboot (Yang Zhong)
1fde73bcd7: spapr_numa.c: fix FORM1 distance-less nodes (Daniel Henrique 
Barboza)
bd989ed44f: numa: avoid crash with SGX and "info numa" (Paolo Bonzini)
dd47a8f654: accel/tcg: Register a force_rcu notifier (Greg Kurz)
ef149763a8: rcu: Introduce force_rcu notifier (Greg Kurz)
3620328f78: target/ppc: Fix register update on lf[sd]u[x]/stf[sd]u[x] (Matheus 
Ferst)
1bf4d3294b: monitor: Fix find_device_state() for IDs containing slashes (Markus 
Armbruster)
8c0bae5a19: qapi: Belatedly mark unstable QMP parts with feature 'unstable' 
(Markus Armbruster)
53e9e547d2: docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Belatedly document feature documentation 
(Markus Armbruster)
13b86cbd2c: docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Drop a duplicate paragraph (Markus 
Armbruster)
a0b9c5f75c: target/i386: sgx: mark device not user creatable (Paolo Bonzini)
1084159b31: qapi: deprecate drive-backup (Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
24d6cc1fa1: docs/interop/bitmaps: use blockdev-backup (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
9a599217a4: docs/block-replication: use blockdev-backup (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)