[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.0.0-rc2 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
third 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-rc2.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu.org/qemu-8.0.0-rc2.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 rc1:

d37158bb24: Update version for v8.0.0-rc2 release (Peter Maydell)
46e3b237c5: target/arm/gdbstub: Only advertise M-profile features if TCG 
available (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
fba7c3b788: igb: respect VMVIR and VMOLR for VLAN (Sriram Yagnaraman)
7581baed88: igb: implement VF Tx and Rx stats (Sriram Yagnaraman)
3c2e0a6853: igb: respect E1000_VMOLR_RSSE (Sriram Yagnaraman)
5f12d70304: igb: check oversized packets for VMDq (Sriram Yagnaraman)
3269ebb3e0: igb: implement VFRE and VFTE registers (Sriram Yagnaraman)
1c1e649761: igb: add ICR_RXDW (Sriram Yagnaraman)
2e68546a43: igb: handle PF/VF reset properly (Sriram Yagnaraman)
e860ef1568: MAINTAINERS: Add Sriram Yagnaraman as a igb reviewer (Sriram 
Yagnaraman)
2a5f744ef2: hw/net/net_tx_pkt: Align l3_hdr (Akihiko Odaki)
4cf3a63849: hw/net/net_tx_pkt: Ignore ECN bit (Akihiko Odaki)
f4fdaf009c: igb: Fix DMA requester specification for Tx packet (Akihiko Odaki)
212f7b1dac: igb: Save more Tx states (Akihiko Odaki)
ca2a091802: hw/nvme: fix missing DNR on compare failure (Klaus Jensen)
9b4f01812f: hw/nvme: Change alignment in dma functions for nvme_blk_* (Mateusz 
Kozlowski)
d8fbf9aa85: block/export: Fix graph locking in blk_get_geometry() call (Kevin 
Wolf)
e62da98527: aio-posix: fix race between epoll upgrade and aio_set_fd_handler() 
(Stefan Hajnoczi)
2957dc40a2: block/export: only acquire AioContext once for 
vhost_user_server_stop() (Stefan Hajnoczi)
bd2cd4a441: nbd/server: push pending frames after sending reply (Florian 
Westphal)
670d8c6ebf: hw/xenpv: Initialize Xen backend operations (David Woodhouse)
8635a3a153: Revert "docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts for 
system emulation" (Thomas Huth)
da80f11efe: cirrus-ci: Remove MSYS2 jobs duplicated with gitlab-ci (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
8f03c08506: gitlab-ci: Cover SPICE in the MSYS2 job (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
7b1bde9560: ui/spice: fix compilation on win32 (Marc-André Lureau)
07e4804fcd: target/ppc: Fix helper_pminsn() prototype (Cédric Le Goater)
f79283fdb8: target/s390x: Fix float_comp_to_cc() prototype (Cédric Le Goater)
d091b5b442: hw/block: replace TABs with space (Yeqi Fu)
0030b244a7: hw/ide: replace TABs with space (Yeqi Fu)
f75e4f2234: accel/xen: Fix DM state change notification in dm_restrict mode 
(David Woodhouse)
0fcd574b02: qga/vss-win32: fix warning for clang++-15 (Pierrick Bouvier)
e35b9a2e81: qtests: avoid printing comments before g_test_init() (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
6205a70b92: contrib/gitdm: add group map for AMD (Alex Bennée)
3556c1034d: contrib/gitdm: add more individual contributors (Alex Bennée)
bfa2e7aacb: contrib/gitdm: add revng to domain map (Alex Bennée)
111fc86241: contrib/gitdm: add Alibaba to the domain-map (Alex Bennée)
8bc9e104b7: contrib/gitdm: add Amazon to the domain map (Alex Bennée)
b89b72de16: contrib/gitdm: Add SYRMIA to the domain map (Alex Bennée)
e00c621bba: contrib/gitdm: Add ASPEED Technology to the domain map (Alex Bennée)
0d01a2f8a4: iotests: remove the check-block.sh script (Daniel P. Berrangé)
51ab5f8bd7: iotests: register each I/O test separately with meson (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
5ba7db0938: iotests: always use a unique sub-directory per test (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
cb845eaa88: iotests: connect stdin to /dev/null when running tests (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
6e5792a1f6: iotests: print TAP protocol version when reporting tests (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
663755b022: iotests: strip subdir path when listing tests (Daniel P. Berrangé)
a9e21786da: iotests: allow test discovery before building (Daniel P. Berrangé)
0c8076b024: iotests: explicitly pass source/build dir to 'check' command 
(Daniel P. Berrangé)
85b983485b: tests/vm: custom openbsd partitioning to increase /home space 
(Daniel P. Berrangé)
3b67f43cf3: tests/vm: skip X11 in openbsd installation (Daniel P. Berrangé)
507271d468: include/qemu/plugin: Inline qemu_plugin_disable_mem_helpers 
(Richard Henderson)
aa4cf6eb82: include/qemu: Split out plugin-event.h (Richard Henderson)
720ace24ae: *: Add missing includes of qemu/plugin.h (Richard Henderson)
cc37d98bfb: *: Add missing includes of qemu/error-report.h (Richard Henderson)
e8956e0c6c: include/qemu/plugin: Remove QEMU_PLUGIN_ASSERT (Richard Henderson)
10588491c1: tcg: Drop plugin_gen_disable_mem_helpers from tcg_gen_exit_tb 
(Richard Henderson)
e04660afef: tcg: Clear plugin_mem_cbs on TB exit (Richard Henderson)
fb3af2d182: tests/avocado: don't use tags to define drive (Alex Bennée)
6f6ca067d2: tests/tcg: add some help output for running individual tests (Alex 
Bennée)
32ba75adc0: include/qemu: add documentation for memory callbacks (Alex Bennée)
dbe9a9cdbb: gitlab: update centos-8-stream job (Alex Bennée)
82790dfefc: scripts/ci: update gitlab-runner playbook to handle CentOS (Alex 
Bennée)
6df250e181: scripts/ci: add libslirp-devel to build-environment (Alex Bennée)
55154c5785: tests/docker: all add DOCKER_BUILDKIT to RUNC environment (Alex 
Bennée)
9f95111474: tests/avocado: re-factor igb test to avoid timeouts (Alex Bennée)
80232dba16: tests/avocado: probe for multi-process support before running test 
(Alex Bennée)
136b6085f1: tests/avocado: update AArch64 tests to Alpine 3.17.2 (Marcin 
Juszkiewicz)