[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc1

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of QEMU 1.0, 
release candidate 1.  This is the first 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-rc1.tar.gz

Known Issues:

1) There is an issue resetting Linux guests that is still being investigated. 
Shutting down QEMU completely and restarting works around the issue.

Changelog since v1.0-rc0

  - console: Fix rendering of VGA underline (Markus Armbruster)
  - qemu_timedate_diff() shouldn't modify its argument. (Gleb Natapov)
  - reenable vm_clock when resuming all vcpus (Wen Congyang)
  - qxl: fix vga port initialization. (Gerd Hoffmann)
  - ac97: don't override the pci subsystem id (Gerd Hoffmann)
  - pc: add 1.0 machine type (Gerd Hoffmann)
  - disable automatic loading of sgabios when -nographic (Paolo Bonzini)
  - add sgabios blob and submodule (Paolo Bonzini)
  - xen-platform: Fix IO port read/write functions (Anthony PERARD)
  - readline: Fix buffer overrun on re-add to history (Markus Armbruster)
  - cmd: Fix potential memory leak (Pavel Borzenkov)
  - cmd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference (Pavel Borzenkov)
  - cmd: Fix coding style in cmd.c (Pavel Borzenkov)
  - arm_gic: handle banked enable bits for per-cpu interrupts (Rabin Vincent)
  - vvfat: reorganize computation of disk geometry (Paolo Bonzini)
  - vvfat: do not hardcode sector counts in error message (Paolo Bonzini)
  - vvfat: unify and correct computation of sector count (Paolo Bonzini)
  - vvfat: need to use first_sectors_number to distinguish fdd/hdd (Paolo Bonzini)
  - vvfat: do not fail if the disk has spare sectors (Paolo Bonzini)
  - vvfat: fix out of bounds array_get usage (Paolo Bonzini)
  - block/cloop: Use g_free instead of free (Dong Xu Wang)
  - block/cloop: Fix coding style (Dong Xu Wang)
  - dma: Avoid reentrancy in DMA transfer handlers (Kevin Wolf)
  - qemu-io: Fix multiwrite_f error handling (Kevin Wolf)
  - qemu-io: Handle create_iovec errors (Kevin Wolf)
  - Fix X86 CPU topology in KVM mode (Bharata B Rao)
  - intel-hda: fix stream search (Gerd Hoffmann)
  - virtio-blk: pass full status to the guest (Paolo Bonzini)
  - hw/9pfs: use g_vasprintf() instead of rolling our own (Stefan Hajnoczi)
  - xtensa_lx60: fix build date code and change memory region names (Max Filippov)
  - xtensa_lx60: pass kernel arguments from -append (Max Filippov)
  - xtensa_lx60: add FLASH support (Max Filippov)
  - target-xtensa: raise an exception for invalid and reserved opcodes (Max 
Filippov)
  - target-xtensa: handle cache options in the overlay tool (Max Filippov)
  - target-xtensa: mask out undefined bits of WINDOWSTART SR (Max Filippov)
  - tcg: Add tcg interpreter to configure / make (Stefan Weil)
  - tcg: Add tci disassembler (Stefan Weil)
  - tcg: Add interpreter for bytecode (Stefan Weil)
  - tcg: Add bytecode generator for tcg interpreter (Stefan Weil)
  - tcg: Make ARRAY_SIZE(tcg_op_defs) globally available (Stefan Weil)
  - tcg: TCG targets may define tcg_qemu_tb_exec (Stefan Weil)
  - memory: use 128-bit integers for sizes and intermediates (Avi Kivity)
  - Add support for 128-bit arithmetic (Avi Kivity)

[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