Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc3

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 28.11.2011 23:32, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> Hi,
> 
> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
> QEMU 1.0, release candidate 4.  This is the forth and hopefully last
> release candidate for the 1.0 release. This is not intended for
> production use but rather for testing.
> 
> To participate in the testing effort, please read the Testing Wiki[1]
> and sign up to test a subsystem.  Any problems should be reported on
> Launchpad[2] or qemu-devel.
> 
> If you've contributed to the 1.0 release, please take a moment and
> update the Changelog[3] so we can have a high quality change log for the
> release.
> 
> The full release schedule[4] is also available on the wiki.
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.0-rc4.tar.gz
> 
> Known Issues:
> 
>  - None!

Apart from the subject being wrong again ;), we all know this is a lie:

ARM host and Darwin host are known broken.

Please note that for the final Release Notes.

Andreas

> 
> Please note, this release contains a fix for a CVE vulnerability in the
> usb-ccid device.  Please make sure that you are using at least this
> version if you use the usb-ccid device.
> 
> Changelog since v1.0-rc3
> 
>  - ccid: Fix buffer overrun in handling of VSC_ATR message (Markus
> Armbruster)
>  - Revert "fix out of tree build" (Anthony Liguori)
>  - configure: avoid screening of --{en, dis}able-usb-redir options (Max
> Filippov)
>  - cutils: Make strtosz & friends leave follow set to callers (Markus
> Armbruster)
>  - qemu-img: Tighten parsing of size arguments (Markus Armbruster)
>  - x86/cpuid: Tighten parsing of tsc_freq=FREQ (Markus Armbruster)
>  - vl: Tighten parsing of -m argument (Markus Armbruster)
>  - vl: Tighten parsing of -numa's parameter mem (Markus Armbruster)
>  - cutils: Drop broken support for zero strtosz default_suffix (Markus
> Armbruster)
>  - configure: tighten pie toolchain support test for tls variables (Avi
> Kivity)
>  - usb-redir: Don't try to write to the chardev after a close event
> (Hans de Goede)
>  - usb-redir: Device disconnect + re-connect robustness fixes (Hans de
> Goede)
>  - usb-redir: Call qemu_chr_fe_open/close (Hans de Goede)
>  - spice-qemu-char: Generate chardev open/close events (Hans de Goede)
>  - qemu-char: rename qemu_chr_event to qemu_chr_be_event and make it
> public (Hans de Goede)
>  - 9pfs: improve portability to older systems (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
>  - tci: Make flush_icache_range() inline (Stefan Weil)
>  - eepro100: Fix alignment requirement for statistical counters (Stefan
> Weil)
>  - virtio: add and use virtio_set_features (Paolo Bonzini)
>  - 9pfs: improve portability to older systems (Paolo Bonzini)
>  - Revert "i386: derive '-cpu host' from KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID"
> (Anthony Liguori)
>  - tci: Add entry to MAINTAINERS (Stefan Weil)
>  - MAINTAINERS: add checkpatch (Blue Swirl)
>  - checkpatch.pl: fix CAST detection (Florian Mickler)
>  - target-xtensa: fix MMUv3 initialization (Max Filippov)
>  - usb-host: add usb_host_do_reset function. (Gerd Hoffmann)
>  - vpc: Add missing error handling in alloc_block (Kevin Wolf)
>  - vdi: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
>  - vvfat: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
>  - vpc: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
>  - vmdk: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
>  - vdi: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
>  - qcow: Add migration blocker (Kevin Wolf)
>  - usb-ehci: add register names (Gerd Hoffmann)
>  - usb-ehci: codestyle fixups (Gerd Hoffmann)
>  - usb-hub: implement reset (Gerd Hoffmann)
>  - fix out of tree build (Stefano Stabellini)
>  - rtl8139: Fix invalid IO access alignment (Julian Pidancet)
>  - usb-hub: wakeup on detach too. (Gerd Hoffmann)
>  - usb: fix usb_qdev_init error handling. (Gerd Hoffmann)
>  - usb: make usb_create_simple catch and pass up errors. (Gerd Hoffmann)
>  - slirp: Clean up net_slirp_hostfwd_remove()'s use of get_str_sep()
> (Markus Armbruster)
>  - sheepdog: Avoid deadlock in error path (Dong Xu Wang)
>  - scsi-generic: add as boot device (Paolo Bonzini)
>  - scsi: fix fw path (Paolo Bonzini)
>  - usb-msd: do not register twice in the boot order (Paolo Bonzini)
>  - virtio-blk: fix cross-endian config space (Paolo Bonzini)
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0/Testing
> [2] http://wiki.qemu.org/ReportABug
> [3] http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next
> [4] http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori


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