[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.2.0-rc2 release

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

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
first release candidate for the QEMU 1.2 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.2.0-rc2.tar.bz2

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.2 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/

The release plan for the 1.2 release is available at:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2

And a detailed change log is available at:

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

Known Issues:

  - References are not completely released during device removal which
    may lead to internal memory leaks.

Changelog since -rc1:

 - scsi-disk: Fix typo (uint32 -> uint32_t) (Stefan Weil)
 - msix: make [un]use vectors on reset/load optional (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - kvm: get/set PV EOI MSR (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - linux-headers: update to 3.6-rc3 (Michael S. Tsirkin)
 - target-i386: disable pv eoi to fix migration across QEMU versions (Anthony Liguori)
 - reset PMBA and PMREGMISC PIIX4 registers. (Gleb Natapov)
 - qemu-ga: Fix null pointer passed to unlink in failure branch (Stefan Weil)
 - memory: Fix copy&paste mistake in memory_region_iorange_write (Jan Kiszka)
 - ivshmem: remove redundant ioeventfd configuration (Cam Macdonell)
 - hw/arm_gic.c: Define .class_size in arm_gic_info TypeInfo (Peter Maydell)
 - tcg/mips: fix broken CONFIG_TCG_PASS_AREG0 code (Aurelien Jarno)
 - Update OpenBIOS PPC image (Aurelien Jarno)
 - target-ppc: fix altivec instructions (Aurelien Jarno)
 - audio/winwave: previous audio buffer should be flushed (munkyu.im)
 - iscsi: Set number of blocks to 0 for blank CDROM devices (Ronnie Sahlberg)
 - scsi: more fixes to properties for passthrough devices (Paolo Bonzini)
 - esp: support 24-bit DMA (Paolo Bonzini)
 - megasas: Add 'hba_serial' property (Hannes Reinecke)
 - target-mips: allow microMIPS SWP and SDP to have RD equal to BASE (Eric Johnson)
 - target-mips: add privilege level check to several Cop0 instructions (Eric Johnson)
 - Revert "fix some debug printf format strings" (malc)
 - Revert "vl: fix -hdachs/-hda argument order parsing issues" (malc)
 - Revert "qemu-options.hx: mention retrace= VGA option" (malc)
 - Revert "vga: add some optional CGA compatibility hacks" (malc)
 - Revert "i8259: add -no-spurious-interrupt-hack option" (malc)
 - mips-linux-user: Always support rdhwr. (Richard Henderson)
 - target-mips: Streamline indexed cp1 memory addressing. (Richard Henderson)
 - Fix order of CVT.PS.S operands (Richard Sandiford)
 - Fix operands of RECIP2.S and RECIP2.PS (Richard Sandiford)
 - linux-user: Clarify "Unable to reserve guest address space" error (Peter Maydell)
 - linux-user: fix emulation of getdents (Dmitry V. Levin)
 - linux-user: arg_table need not have global scope (Jim Meyering)
 - tcg/ia64: fix and optimize ld/st slow path (Aurelien Jarno)
 - tcg/ia64: fix prologue/epilogue (Aurelien Jarno)
 - tcg/arm: Fix broken CONFIG_TCG_PASS_AREG0 code (Peter Maydell)
 - i8259: add -no-spurious-interrupt-hack option (Matthew Ogilvie)
 - vga: add some optional CGA compatibility hacks (Matthew Ogilvie)
 - qemu-options.hx: mention retrace= VGA option (Matthew Ogilvie)
 - vl: fix -hdachs/-hda argument order parsing issues (Matthew Ogilvie)
 - target-i386/translate.c: mov to/from crN/drN: ignore mod bits (Matthew Ogilvie)
 - fix some debug printf format strings (Matthew Ogilvie)
 - ivshmem: fix memory_region_del_eventfd assertion failure (Paolo Bonzini)
 - qom: object_delete should unparent the object first (Paolo Bonzini)
 - monitor: don't try to initialize json parser when monitor is HMP (Anthony Liguori)
 - target-mips: Fix some helper functions (VR54xx multiplication) (Stefan Weil)
 - target-mips: Enable access to required RDHWR hardware registers (Meador Inge)
 - monitor: move json init from OPEN event to init (Anthony Liguori)
 - boards: add a 'none' machine type to all platforms (Anthony Liguori)


Regards,

Anthony Liguori