[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 7.1.0-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 7.1 release. This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-7.1.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-7.1.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 7.1 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs using our GitLab issue tracker:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues

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

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/7.1

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 7.1 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/7.1

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc0:

d2656dd577: Update version for v7.1.0-rc1 release (Richard Henderson)
d44971e725: target/mips: Advance pc after semihosting exception (Richard 
Henderson)
a21ba54dd5: virtiofsd: Disable killpriv_v2 by default (Vivek Goyal)
4bcb7de072: migration: Define BLK_MIG_BLOCK_SIZE as unsigned long long (Peter 
Maydell)
ead34f64f9: migration: Assert that migrate_multifd_compression() returns an 
in-range value (Peter Maydell)
777f53c759: Revert "migration: Simplify unqueue_page()" (Thomas Huth)
df67aa3e61: migration: add remaining params->has_* = true in 
migration_instance_init() (Leonardo Bras)
21b1d97459: main loop: add missing documentation links to GS/IO macros 
(Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito)
e13fe274bf: qemu-iotests: Discard stderr when probing devices (Cole Robinson)
fd8a68ad68: hw/block/hd-geometry: Do not override specified bios-chs-trans (Lev 
Kujawski)
630179b7f7: libvduse: Pass positive value to strerror() (Xie Yongji)
d9cf16c0be: libvduse: Replace strcpy() with strncpy() (Xie Yongji)
e7156ff7cb: libvduse: Fix the incorrect function name (Xie Yongji)
77e3f038af: block/io_uring: add missing include file (Jinhao Fan)
1eaa63429a: linux-user/riscv: Align signal frame to 16 bytes (Richard Henderson)
5265d24c98: target/arm: Move sve probe inside kvm >= 4.15 branch (Richard 
Henderson)
b9e8d68a39: target/arm: Set KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE while probing the host (Richard 
Henderson)
0dd14e9555: target/arm: Use kvm_arm_sve_supported in 
kvm_arm_get_host_cpu_features (Richard Henderson)
1bca64a3f0: tests/qtest/migration-test: Run the dirty ring tests only with the 
x86 target (Thomas Huth)
398c01da9c: aspeed/fby35: Fix owner of the BMC RAM memory region (Cédric Le 
Goater)
3867c1c5fd: aspeed: Remove unused fields from AspeedMachineState (Cédric Le 
Goater)
3fde641e72: ipmi:smbus: Add a check around a memcpy (Corey Minyard)
e2e137f642: hw/nvme: do not enable ioeventfd by default (Klaus Jensen)
04e8da8890: hw/nvme: unregister the event notifier handler on the main loop 
(Klaus Jensen)
a2da737729: hw/nvme: skip queue processing if notifier is cleared (Klaus Jensen)
a07d9df0fd: trivial: Fix duplicated words (Thomas Huth)
7a21bee2aa: misc: fix commonly doubled up words (Daniel P. Berrangé)
ebf705541c: tests/unit/test-qga: Replace the word 'blacklist' in the guest 
agent unit test (Thomas Huth)
2649a72555: migration-test: Allow test to run without uffd (Peter Xu)
219044b8e6: migration-test: Use migrate_ensure_converge() for auto-converge 
(Peter Xu)
b9e6074fc5: tests/tcg/linux-test: Fix random hangs in test_socket (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
7eabb050ea: Hexagon (tests/tcg/hexagon) reference file for float_convd (Taylor 
Simpson)
a1ad040dba: Hexagon (tests/tcg/hexagon) Fix alignment in load_unpack.c (Taylor 
Simpson)
1e814a0dc4: Hexagon (target/hexagon) make VyV operands use a unique temp 
(Taylor Simpson)
74725231d6: hw/loongarch: Change macro name 'LS7A_XXX' to 'VIRT_XXX' (Xiaojuan 
Yang)
587858ed0d: hw/loongarch: Rename file 'loongson3.XXX' to 'virt.XXX' (Xiaojuan 
Yang)
fc2cc19ffa: ci: Upgrade msys2 release to 20220603 (Yonggang Luo)
1235cf7d31: qemu-options: bring the kernel and image options together (Alex 
Bennée)
28053143ab: docs/devel: fix description of OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE (Alex 
Bennée)
503e549e44: tests/tcg/s390x: Test unaligned accesses to lowcore (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
0882caf4d6: qapi: Add exit-failure PanicAction (Ilya Leoshkevich)
9b1268f55c: semihosting: Fix handling of buffer in TARGET_SYS_TMPNAM (Peter 
Maydell)
fed49cdf6a: semihosting: Check for errors on SET_ARG() (Peter Maydell)
45704e8904: semihosting: Don't copy buffer after console_write() (Peter Maydell)
aed04e6357: semihosting: Don't return negative values on 
qemu_semihosting_console_write() failure (Peter Maydell)
93a02e822f: .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Enable native Windows symlink (Bin Meng)
6ad5208661: .cirrus.yml: Change winsymlinks to 'native' (Bin Meng)
ca58b4931e: gitlab: drop 'containers-layer2' stage (Daniel P. Berrangé)
998f334722: gitlab: show testlog.txt contents when cirrus/custom-runner jobs 
fail (Daniel P. Berrangé)
feb6cb9369: tests: refresh to latest libvirt-ci module (Daniel P. Berrangé)
ebc55f523c: configure: pass correct cflags to container-based cross compilers 
(Paolo Bonzini)
47c182fe8b: kvm: don't use perror() without useful errno (Cornelia Huck)
705c881f7d: configure: Fix ppc container_cross_cc substitution (Richard 
Henderson)
0c9717ff35: target/ppc: Implement new wait variants (Nicholas Piggin)
bb7e03cb56: stubs: update replay-tools to match replay.h types (Claudio Fontana)
37e7b86766: vga: fix incorrect line height in 640x200x2 mode (Paolo Bonzini)
eda3f17bcd: hw/ppc/ppc440_uc: Initialize length passed to 
cpu_physical_memory_map() (Peter Maydell)
edccf661e6: hw/ppc: check if spapr_drc_index() returns NULL in spapr_nvdimm.c 
(Daniel Henrique Barboza)
d82b11f699: ui: dbus-display requires CONFIG_GBM (Paolo Bonzini)
54f2183630: hw/intc: sifive_plic: Fix multi-socket plic configuraiton (Atish 
Patra)
44602af858: RISC-V: Allow both Zmmul and M (Palmer Dabbelt)
0c2cb3827e: iotests/131: Add parallels regression test (Hanna Reitz)
eba088f91d: block/parallels: Fix buffer-based write call (Hanna Reitz)