[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.6.0-rc1 is now a vailable

[Anthony Liguori]

Hi,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
second 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-rc1.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/1.6

The following changes have been made since v1.6.0-rc0:

 - virtio-console: Use exitfn for virtserialport, too (Andreas Färber)
 - virtio-9p-device: Avoid freeing uninitialized memory (Andreas Färber)
 - migration: don't use uninitialized variables (Pawit Pornkitprasan)
 - migration: send total time in QMP at "completed" stage (Pawit Pornkitprasan)
 - MAINTAINERS: change Igor Mitsyanko's email address (Igor Mitsyanko)
 - qdev: Use clz in print_size (Richard Henderson)
 - qdev: Fix 32-bit compilation in print_size (Richard Henderson)
 - mips_r4k: Silence BIOS loading warning for qtest (Andreas Färber)
 - mips_jazz: Silence BIOS loading warning for qtest (Andreas Färber)
 - mips_malta: Silence BIOS loading warning for qtest (Andreas Färber)
 - mips_fulong2e: Silence BIOS loading warning for qtest (Andreas Färber)
 - target-ppc: Suppress TCG instruction emulation warnings for qtest (Andreas 
Färber)
 - chardev: fix CHR_EVENT_OPENED events for mux chardevs (Michael Roth)
 - tci: Fix broken build (compiler warning caused by redefined macro BIT) 
(Stefan Weil)
 - target-mips: correct the values in the DSP tests (Petar Jovanovic)
 - s390: Implement dump-guest-memory support for target s390x (Ekaterina 
Tumanova)
 - s390x/kvm: Remove redundant return code (Thomas Huth)
 - s390x/kvm: Reworked/fixed handling of cc3 in kvm_handle_css_inst() (Thomas 
Huth)
 - s390x/ioinst: Fixed priority of operand exceptions (Thomas Huth)
 - s390x/ioinst: Fixed alignment check in SCHM instruction (Thomas Huth)
 - s390x/ioinst: Throw addressing exception when memory_map failed (Thomas Huth)
 - s390x/ioinst: Add missing alignment checks for IO instructions (Thomas Huth)
 - s390/sclpconsole: handle char layer busy conditions (Heinz Graalfs)
 - hcd-ohci: add dma error handling (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
 - uhci: egsm fix (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - xhci: handle USB_RET_IOERROR (Gerd Hoffmann)
 - spice: fix display initialization (Gerd Hoffmann)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori