[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 5.1.0-rc1 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
second release candidate for the QEMU 5.1 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-5.1.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-5.1.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 5.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

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

The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
candidates, are available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/5.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 5.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc0:

c8004fe6bb: Update version for v5.1.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
4a01e27ddc: iotests: Test sparseness for qemu-img convert -n (Kevin Wolf)
0dde9fd12f: qom: Make info qom-tree sort children more efficiently (Markus 
Armbruster)
61b3043965: qcow2: Implement v2 zero writes with discard if possible (Kevin 
Wolf)
bae127d4dc: file-posix: Handle `EINVAL` fallocate return value (Antoine Damhet)
5bd929d2ff: qom: Document object_get_canonical_path() returns malloced string 
(Markus Armbruster)
7a309cc95b: qom: Change object_get_canonical_path_component() not to malloc 
(Markus Armbruster)
5519724a13: hw/net/xgmac: Fix buffer overflow in xgmac_enet_send() (Mauro 
Matteo Cascella)
e219d30910: hw/net: Added plen fix for IPv6 (Andrew)
cbf97d5b79: qapi: Fix visit_type_STRUCT() not to fail for null object (Markus 
Armbruster)
1d719ddc35: block: fix bdrv_aio_cancel() for ENOMEDIUM requests (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
d87350b065: module: ignore NULL type (Gerd Hoffmann)
d97df4b84b: qxl: fix modular builds with dtrace (Gerd Hoffmann)
8e67fda2dd: xhci: fix valid.max_access_size to access address registers 
(Laurent Vivier)
0fca43de1b: qemu-iotests: add testcase for bz #1857490 (Maxim Levitsky)
662d0c5392: block/crypto: disallow write sharing by default (Maxim Levitsky)
7ad36e2e24: hw: Mark nd_table[] misuse in realize methods FIXME (Markus 
Armbruster)
2b0650205b: msf2: Unbreak device-list-properties for "msf-soc" (Markus 
Armbruster)
6184e5fb42: MAINTAINERS: Extend the device fuzzing section (Thomas Huth)
09a14f586c: docs/fuzz: add instructions for generating a coverage report 
(Alexander Bulekov)
19a91e4af8: docs/fuzz: add information about useful libFuzzer flags (Alexander 
Bulekov)
ee16da12d7: docs/fuzz: describe building fuzzers with enable-sanitizers 
(Alexander Bulekov)
dd0162653c: fuzz: build without AddressSanitizer, by default (Alexander Bulekov)
48eac10197: gitlab-ci.yml: Add oss-fuzz build tests (Alexander Bulekov)
bcbad8b05c: fuzz: Fix leak when assembling datadir path string (Alexander 
Bulekov)
7cee363bc2: scripts/oss-fuzz: Limit target list to i386-softmmu (Thomas Huth)
6a0b7505f1: docs/system: Document the arm virt board (Peter Maydell)
bb309000c8: docs/system: Briefly document gumstix boards (Peter Maydell)
b76b60f59b: docs/system: Briefly document collie board (Peter Maydell)
2d21dd17c5: docs/system: Briefly document canon-a1100 board (Peter Maydell)
3f410039b7: hw/arm/armsse: Assert info->num_cpus is in-bounds in 
armsse_realize() (Peter Maydell)
cd07d7f9f5: qdev: Document GPIO related functions (Peter Maydell)
46ea1be1ee: qdev: Document qdev_unrealize() (Peter Maydell)
b51238e251: qdev: Move doc comments from qdev.c to qdev-core.h (Peter Maydell)
8edbca515c: util: Implement qemu_get_thread_id() for OpenBSD (David CARLIER)
19bd6aafbd: hw/arm/virt: Disable memory hotplug when MTE is enabled (Richard 
Henderson)
7f6185ed9c: hw/arm/virt: Error for MTE enabled with KVM (Richard Henderson)
6f4e1405b9: hw/arm/virt: Enable MTE via a machine property (Richard Henderson)
d69cda7ed7: Makefile: Remove config-devices.mak on "make clean" (Peter Maydell)
b25fbd6a13: pseries: Update SLOF firmware image (Alexey Kardashevskiy)
a6030d7e0b: spapr: Add a new level of NUMA for GPUs (Reza Arbab)
a4beb5f5d4: spapr_pci: Robustify support of PCI bridges (Greg Kurz)
14de3d4ac5: ppc/pnv: Make PSI device types not user creatable (Greg Kurz)
ba3c35d9c4: tcg/cpu-exec: precise single-stepping after an interrupt (Richard 
Henderson)
e3f7320caa: ipmi: add SET_SENSOR_READING command (Cédric Le Goater)
789101b73d: ipmi: Fix a man page entry (Corey Minyard)
323679da77: ipmi: Add man page pieces for the IPMI PCI devices (Corey Minyard)
7cb015197b: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: fix add_bitmaps_to_list (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
a8c5cf27c9: file-posix: Fix leaked fd in raw_open_common() error path (Kevin 
Wolf)
bca5283bd4: file-posix: Fix check_hdev_writable() with auto-read-only (Kevin 
Wolf)
20eaf1bf6e: file-posix: Move check_hdev_writable() up (Kevin Wolf)
5edc85571e: file-posix: Allow byte-aligned O_DIRECT with NFS (Kevin Wolf)
9c60a5d197: block: Require aligned image size to avoid assertion failure (Kevin 
Wolf)
d047cfa78d: iotests: test shutdown when bitmap is exported through NBD 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
453cc6be0a: nbd: make nbd_export_close_all() synchronous (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
f21f12936f: iotests/030: Reduce job speed to make race less likely (Kevin Wolf)
3e018afbfe: crypto: use a stronger private key for tests (Daniel P. Berrangé)
1c404d756f: qemu-img resize: Require --shrink for shrinking all image formats 
(Kevin Wolf)
a08464521c: Remove VXHS block device (Marc-André Lureau)
4b7c5bc447: vvfat: set status to odd fixes (Prasad J Pandit)
9ece07d7a3: docs/s390x: fix vfio-ccw type (Cornelia Huck)
b610eba335: gitlab-ci.yml: Add fuzzer tests (Thomas Huth)
ab2d185d6b: qom: Plug memory leak in "info qom-tree" (Markus Armbruster)
12a9b8d824: configure: Fix for running with --enable-werror on macOS (Thomas 
Huth)
f5ec79f5e0: fuzz: Expect the cmdline in a freeable GString (Alexander Bulekov)
15c51f724e: tests: qmp-cmd-test: fix memory leak (Li Qiang)
82e258db15: qtest: bios-tables-test: fix a memory leak (Li Qiang)
a7ba744f40: tcg/cpu-exec: precise single-stepping after an exception (Luc 
Michel)
69c918d2ef: tcg: Save/restore vecop_list around minmax fallback (Richard 
Henderson)
818b9f111d: i386: hvf: Explicitly set CR4 guest/host mask (Roman Bolshakov)
73d5f22ecb: hw/i2c: Document the I2C qdev helpers (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
1373b15bb5: hw/i2c: Rename i2c_create_slave() as i2c_slave_create_simple() 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
2616f57231: hw/i2c: Rename i2c_realize_and_unref() as 
i2c_slave_realize_and_unref() (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
db437ca6df: hw/i2c: Rename i2c_try_create_slave() as i2c_slave_new() (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
7a204cbdc2: hw/i2c/aspeed_i2c: Simplify aspeed_i2c_get_bus() (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
ae163b8d95: hw/i2c/Kconfig: Add an entry for the SMBus (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
644e3c5d81: target/i386: add the missing vmx features for Skylake-Server and 
Cascadelake-Server CPU models (Chenyi Qiang)
e0013791b9: target/i386: fix model number and add missing features for 
Icelake-Server CPU model (Chenyi Qiang)
5cb287d2bd: target/i386: add fast short REP MOV support (Chenyi Qiang)
f9f08e7cae: i386/cpu: Don't add unavailable_features to env->user_features 
(Xiaoyao Li)
1f43671a0d: i368/cpu: Clear env->user_features after loading versioned CPU 
model (Xiaoyao Li)
4084e35068: usb: fix storage regression (Gerd Hoffmann)
8ec1415935: vfio: fix use-after-free in display (Gerd Hoffmann)
df8a756893: tests: tpm: Skip over pcrUpdateCounter byte in result comparison 
(Stefan Berger)
f8b332a1ff: tpm: tpm_spapr: Exit on TPM backend failures (Stefan Berger)
a134321ef6: ftgmac100: fix dblac write test (erik-smit)
e7b347d0bf: net: detect errors from probing vnet hdr flag for TAP devices 
(Daniel P. Berrange)
894022e616: net: check if the file descriptor is valid before using it (Laurent 
Vivier)
2b28a7ef90: qemu-options.hx: Clean up and fix typo for colo-compare (Zhang Chen)
a2e5cb7a87: net/colo-compare.c: Expose compare "max_queue_size" to users (Zhang 
Chen)
9a8d949245: hw/net: Added CSO for IPv6 (Andrew)
650181007a: virtio-net: fix removal of failover device (Juan Quintela)