[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.0.0-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 6.0 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.0.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-6.0.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 6.0 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/6.0

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 6.0 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.0

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc0:

6d40ce00c1: Update version for v6.0.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
b471d55491: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20210330' into staging (Peter Maydell)
4a0ba67c77: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/maxreitz/tags/pull-block-2021-03-30' into staging (Peter Maydell)
b9e3f1579a: hw/timer/renesas_tmr: Add default-case asserts in read_tcnt() 
(Peter Maydell)
f7fb73b8cd: target/arm: Make number of counters in PMCR follow the CPU (Peter 
Maydell)
6c1bd93954: hw/arm/smmuv3: Drop unused CDM_VALID() and is_cd_valid() (Zenghui 
Yu)
c8aaa24537: hw/display/xlnx_dp: Free FIFOs adding xlnx_dp_finalize() (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
a62ee00aa0: net/npcm7xx_emc.c: Fix handling of receiving packets when RSDR not 
set (Doug Evans)
2ec7e8a946: iotests/244: Test preallocation for data-file-raw (Max Reitz)
484108293d: qcow2: Force preallocation with data-file-raw (Max Reitz)
7993b0f83f: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/nvme/tags/nvme-fixes-for-6.0-pull-request' into staging (Peter Maydell)
3a69cadbef: hw/block/nvme: fix ref counting in nvme_format_ns (Klaus Jensen)
9561353ddc: hw/block/nvme: fix resource leak in nvme_dif_rw (Klaus Jensen)
220222a0fe: qsd: Document FUSE exports (Max Reitz)
53431b9086: block/mirror: Fix mirror_top's permissions (Max Reitz)
6d7bb95180: iotests/046: Filter request length (Max Reitz)
ad0ce64279: qcow2: use external virtual timers (Pavel Dovgalyuk)
d751448d4f: iotests/116: Fix reference output (Max Reitz)
c00316e9b2: iotests: fix 051.out expected output after error text touchups 
(Connor Kuehl)
93d8d1293b: iotests: Fix typo in iotest 051 (Tao Xu)
ec2e6e016d: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/vivier2/tags/linux-user-for-6.0-pull-request' into staging (Peter 
Maydell)
4a1e6bce23: linux-user: allow NULL msg in recvfrom (Zach Reizner)
7b9a3c9f94: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/kraxel/tags/fixes-20210326-pull-request' into staging (Peter Maydell)
db0b034185: hw/usb/hcd-ehci: Fix crash when showing help of EHCI devices 
(Thomas Huth)
adcf33a504: s390x: modularize virtio-gpu-ccw (Gerd Hoffmann)
2dd9d8cfb4: s390x: add have_virtio_ccw (Gerd Hoffmann)
d4c603d7be: s390x: move S390_ADAPTER_SUPPRESSIBLE (Gerd Hoffmann)
2da6e36b33: hw/usb/hcd-ehci-sysbus: Free USBPacket on instance finalize() 
(Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
59be75e7d8: vhost-user-gpu: fix cursor move/update (Marc-André Lureau)
96ee096a13: vhost-user-gpu: fix vugbm_device_init fallback (Marc-André Lureau)
0c27b9c568: vhost-user-gpu: glFlush before notifying clients (Marc-André Lureau)
d2aea775d4: usb: Remove "-usbdevice ccid" (Thomas Huth)
23fff7a17f: linux-user/s390x: Use the guest pointer for the sigreturn stub 
(Andreas Krebbel)
63ad23fa24: Merge remote-tracking branch 
'remotes/stefanha-gitlab/tags/block-pull-request' into staging (Peter Maydell)
3460fd7f39: migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test: check that we can't remove in-flight 
bitmaps (Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
4290b4834c: migration/block-dirty-bitmap: make incoming disabled bitmaps busy 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)