[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE][Call-For-Testing] Release 0.12.0-rc1 of QEMU

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

The QEMU team is pleased to announce the availability of the 0.12.0-rc2
release.  This is the second release candidate for the 0.12.0 release.
This release is not intended for production use.

Testing release candidates is a great way to contribute to QEMU and
improve the quality of the 0.12.0 release.

The current plan is to release 0.12.0 on Friday, Dec 18th.  Depending on 
the severity of bug fixes we get between now and then, we may do another 
release candidate in the middle of the week.

For this release candidate, we would appreciate as much testing and
feedback as possible, particularly the following features which have
seen a lot of activity since the 0.11.0 release:

  - live migration; especially with non-x86 and complex machine
configurations
  - block device migration
  - exotic x86 guests that may interact with the BIOS in special ways
  - PXE booting
  - SCSI disk support
  - any tools that depend on parsing monitor output

It can be downloaded from Savannah at:

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.12.0-rc2.tar.gz

Please send testing feedback (positive or negative) to qemu-devel and
file bugs against the release candidate at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu

A detailed change log since 0.12.0-rc1 is included below.

On behalf of the QEMU team, I'd like to thank everyone who contributed
to make this release happen!

version 0.12.0-rc2:

   - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
   - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
   - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
   - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
   - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
   - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
   - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd 
Hoffmann)
   - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
   - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
   - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
   - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
   - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for 
properties. (Gerd H
offmann)
   - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
   - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
   - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
   - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
   - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
   - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
   - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
   - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
   - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus 
Armbruster)
   - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
   - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus 
Armbruster)
   - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
   - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
   - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
   - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
   - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
   - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
   - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
   - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
   - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
   - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori