[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.0.0-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 8.0 release. This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.0.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.0.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 8.0 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs using our GitLab issue tracker:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/8#tab-issues

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

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/8.0

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 8.0 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/8.0

Thank you to everyone involved!

Changes since rc0:

c283ff89d1: Update version for v8.0.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
5787d17a42: target/arm: Don't advertise aarch64-pauth.xml to gdb (Peter Maydell)
d4e2cc9aa4: docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst: Fix formatting (Peter Maydell)
3202b2628b: hw/usb/imx: Fix out of bounds access in imx_usbphy_read() (Guenter 
Roeck)
d399d6b179: contrib/elf2dmp: add PE name check and Windows Server 2022 support 
(Viktor Prutyanov)
06ac60b73e: contrib/elf2dmp: move PE dir search to pe_get_data_dir_entry 
(Viktor Prutyanov)
05adc48e1d: contrib/elf2dmp: fix code style (Viktor Prutyanov)
0c88f93788: hw/char/cadence_uart: Fix guards on invalid BRGR/BDIV settings 
(Peter Maydell)
0b90336995: target/arm: Add Neoverse-N1 registers (Chen Baozi)
49152ac470: ui: fix crash on serial reset, during init (Marc-André Lureau)
9b6611f40b: ui/sdl2: remove workaround forcing x11 (Erico Nunes)
3c293a4662: ui: return the default console cursor when con == NULL (Marc-André 
Lureau)
281a77df28: ui/gtk: fix cursor moved to left corner (Marc-André Lureau)
74bc00c6b9: ui/dbus: fix passing SOCKET to GSocket API & leak (Marc-André 
Lureau)
e40283d9a1: ui/spice: fix SOCKET handling regression (Marc-André Lureau)
f3ab43accf: win32: add qemu_close_socket_osfhandle() (Marc-André Lureau)
48805df9c2: replace TABs with spaces (Yeqi Fu)
5cb993ff13: qemu/osdep: Switch position of "extern" and "G_NORETURN" (Bernhard 
Beschow)
b6903cbe3a: tests/unit/test-blockjob: Disable complete_in_standby test (Peter 
Maydell)
5b7b2a1cf9: target/s390x/tcg/mem_helper: Remove bad assert() statement (Thomas 
Huth)
86305e8641: edk2: update firmware binaries (Gerd Hoffmann)
22e11539e1: edk2: replace build scripts (Gerd Hoffmann)
9e8a55aa78: edk2: update submodule to edk2-stable202302 (Gerd Hoffmann)
8b00004264: acpi: disable tests/data/acpi updates (Gerd Hoffmann)
e8d1e0cdd3: bios-tables-test: use 128M numa nodes on aarch64 (Gerd Hoffmann)
a31daba07e: acpi: enable tests/data/acpi updates (Gerd Hoffmann)
e902126cae: tests/tcg/s390x: Test unaligned accesses (Ilya Leoshkevich)
ba1ef833be: target/s390x: Update do_unaligned_access() comment (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
39ad734445: target/s390x: Handle STGRL to non-aligned addresses (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
2bc66225d8: target/s390x: Handle STRL to non-aligned addresses (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
0708220c5b: target/s390x: Handle CLRL and CLGFRL with non-aligned addresses 
(Ilya Leoshkevich)
2b25c8242e: target/s390x: Handle CGRL and CLGRL with non-aligned addresses 
(Ilya Leoshkevich)
227a9f79df: target/s390x: Handle CRL and CGFRL with non-aligned addresses (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
4942e4cc90: target/s390x: Handle LLGFRL from non-aligned addresses (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
e6d70c82ff: target/s390x: Handle LRL and LGFRL from non-aligned addresses (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
2a00d55d21: target/s390x: Handle LGRL from non-aligned addresses (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
ce7ca26968: target/s390x: Handle EXECUTE of odd addresses (Ilya Leoshkevich)
39344bbc13: target/s390x: Handle branching to odd addresses (Ilya Leoshkevich)
5e8a0c6291: tests/tcg/s390x: Add ex-relative-long.c (Ilya Leoshkevich)
703d03a4aa: target/s390x: Fix EXECUTE of relative long instructions (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
04fce706bd: tests/tcg/s390x: Add rxsbg.c (Ilya Leoshkevich)
9701596d82: target/s390x: Fix R[NOX]SBG with T=1 (Ilya Leoshkevich)
a1465c8b5b: tests/tcg/s390x: Add PSW modification tests (Ilya Leoshkevich)
199c42a6a1: target/s390x: Implement Early Exception Recognition (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
377dc84e2d: target/s390x: Fix LPSW (Ilya Leoshkevich)
9ba1caf510: MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan (Thomas Huth)
fa76c854ae: migration: fix populate_vfio_info (Steve Sistare)
ff1585d1d8: migration/multifd: correct multifd_send_thread to trace the flags 
(Wei Wang)
bf0274192a: migration/rdma: Remove deprecated variable rdma_return_path (Li 
Zhijian)
1776b70f55: migration/xbzrle: fix out-of-bounds write with axv512 (Matheus 
Tavares Bernardino)
d84a78d15d: migration/xbzrle: use ctz64 to avoid undefined result (Matheus 
Tavares Bernardino)
a5382214d8: migration/rdma: Fix return-path case (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
a5d35dc7e0: migration: Wait on preempt channel in preempt thread (Peter Xu)
364206640c: docs/sphinx/kerneldoc.py: Honour --enable-werror (Peter Maydell)
d80d761daa: update seabios binaries to 1.16.2 (Gerd Hoffmann)
d27532e479: update seabios submodule to 1.16.2 (Gerd Hoffmann)
ad4052f104: target/sh4: Honor QEMU_LOG_FILENAME with QEMU_LOG=cpu (Ilya 
Leoshkevich)
afa55c6e24: exec/memory: Fix kernel-doc warning (Bernhard Beschow)
51139fb3e7: tests/tcg/xtensa: allow testing big-endian cores (Max Filippov)
5161dba859: tests/tcg/xtensa: add linker.ld to CLEANFILES (Max Filippov)
dee2a4d4d2: vl: defuse PID file path resolve error (Fiona Ebner)
54ad31fb0a: hw/intc/ioapic: Update KVM routes before redelivering IRQ, on RTE 
update (David Woodhouse)
3b31669ea9: docs/devel: clarify further the semantics of RMW operations (Paolo 
Bonzini)
ddc7cb30f8: Fix build without CONFIG_XEN_EMU (Miroslav Rezanina)
c3a2c84ae3: io/channel-tls: plug memory leakage on GSource (Matheus Tavares 
Bernardino)
92f4a21d91: ps2: Don't send key release event for Lang1, Lang2 keys (Ross 
Lagerwall)
ac19b51678: Add qemu qcode support for keys F13 to F24 (Willem van de Velde)