Hi, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the third release candidate for the QEMU 1.6 release. This release is meant for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.6.0-rc2.tar.bz2 You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 1.6 release by testing this release and reporting bugs on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/ The release plan for the 1.6 release is available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.6 Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 1.6 release below: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next The following changes have been made since v1.6.0-rc1: - fw_cfg: the I/O port variant expects little-endian (Paolo Bonzini) - po: Update all *.po files (Stefan Weil) - target-ppc: Add POWER5+ v2.1 CPU model (Andreas Färber) - target-ppc: Prepare POWER5P CPU family (Andreas Färber) - target-ppc: Turn POWER5gr CPU into alias for POWER5 (Andreas Färber) - target-ppc: Turn POWER5gs CPU into alias for POWER5+ (Andreas Färber) - target-ppc: Fix POWER7+ model (Andreas Färber) - Bugfix for loading multiboot kernels (Martijn van den Broek) - target-i386: Fix X86CPU error handling (Andreas Färber) - vmdk: rename num_gtes_per_gte to num_gtes_per_gt (Fam Zheng) - vmdk: use heap allocation for whole_grain (Fam Zheng) - vmdk: check l1 size before opening image (Fam Zheng) - vmdk: check l2 table size when opening (Fam Zheng) - vmdk: check granularity field in opening (Fam Zheng) - qemu-iotests: add empty test case for vmdk (Fam Zheng) - qemu-iotests: add poke_file utility function (Stefan Hajnoczi) - vmdk: use unsigned values for on disk header fields (Fam Zheng) - vmdk: Make VMDK3Header and VmdkGrainMarker QEMU_PACKED (Fam Zheng) - target-mips: fix decoding of microMIPS POOL32Axf instructions (Leon Alrae) - sheepdog: add missing .bdrv_has_zero_init (Liu Yuan) - qemu-iotests: filter QEMU version in monitor banner (Stefan Hajnoczi) - iov: handle EOF in iov_send_recv (MORITA Kazutaka) - ignore SIGPIPE in qemu-img and qemu-io (MORITA Kazutaka) - qemu-img: Error out for excess arguments (Kevin Wolf) - semaphore: fix a hangup problem under load on NetBSD hosts. (Izumi Tsutsui) - rdma: memory leak RDMAContext::host (Isaku Yamahata) - rdma: use RDMA_WRID_READY (Isaku Yamahata) - rdma: qemu_rdma_post_send_control uses wrongly RDMA_WRID_MAX (Isaku Yamahata) - rdma: don't use negative index to array (Isaku Yamahata) - rdma: correct newlines in error statements (Michael R. Hines) - rdma: forgot to turn off the debugging flag (Michael R. Hines) - rdma: bugfix: make IPv6 support work (Michael R. Hines) - pxa2xx: Avoid object_get_link_property() assertion for "parent_bus" (Andreas Färber) - target-ppc: Add POWER7+ CPU model (Alexey Kardashevskiy) - pcnet: Flush queued packets on end of STOP state (Jan Kiszka) - target-mips: fix 34Kf configuration for DSP ASE (Yongbok Kim) - block: Disable driver-specific options for 1.6 (Kevin Wolf) - vmdk: fix comment for vmdk_co_write_zeroes (Fam Zheng) - memory.c: drop kvm.h dependency (Michael S. Tsirkin) - block/iscsi.c: Fix printf format error. (Richard W.M. Jones) - qemu-ga: build it even if !system (Michael Tokarev) - usb-redir: fix use-after-free (Gerd Hoffmann) - xhci: fix segfault (Gerd Hoffmann) - i82378: Cleanup implementation (Hervé Poussineau) - pci-host/prep: Set isa_mem_base in the PCI host bridge (Hervé Poussineau) - cpu: Fix VMSTATE_CPU() semantics (Andreas Färber) - Update OpenBIOS images (Mark Cave-Ayland) - target-xtensa: check register window inline (Max Filippov) - target-xtensa: don't generate dead code to access invalid SRs (Max Filippov) - tests/tcg/xtensa: Fix out-of-tree build (Andreas Färber) - target-xtensa: avoid double-stopping at breakpoints (Max Filippov) - target-xtensa: add fallthrough markers (Max Filippov) - target-xtensa: add extui unit test (Max Filippov) Regards, Anthony Liguori
