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Fri Apr 10 2026 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-37.el9
- hashing: use mmap/munmap for isal functions (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 39165991]
- multifd: replace allocations/free with mmap/munmap (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 39165991]
- page_cache: use mmap() based data pool for cache items (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 39165991]
- page_cache: change cache allocations to mmap (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 39165991]
- migration: add mmap/munmap wrapper (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 39165991]
- target/i386/kvm: Use zero if kvm_msr_entry_add() is called by getter (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38965920]
- target/i386/kvm: Use logical counter index for AMD PMU getter (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38965920]
- Document CVEs (Mark Kanda) {CVE-2025-54566} {CVE-2025-54567} {CVE-2025-8860} {CVE-2026-0665} {CVE-2026-3886}
- hw/usb/hcd-ohci: check for MPS=0 to avoid infinite loop (Jenny Guanni Qu) [Orabug: 39160764] {CVE-2026-3890}
- hyperv/syndbg: check length returned by cpu_physical_memory_map() (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 39160749] {CVE-2026-3842}
- block/vmdk: fix OOB read in vmdk_read_extent() (Halil Oktay) [Orabug: 39160776] {CVE-2026-2243}
- cryptodev-builtin: Limit the maximum size (zhenwei pi) [Orabug: 39173335] {CVE-2025-14876}
- hw/virtio/virtio-crypto: verify asym request size (zhenwei pi) [Orabug: 39173335] {CVE-2025-14876}
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Wed Apr 01 2026 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-36.el9
- migration: Fix missing Error return in .load_setup() handlers (Maciej S. Szmigiero) [Orabug: 39154816]
- migration: Fix missing Error return in .save_setup() handlers (Maciej S. Szmigiero) [Orabug: 39154816]
- migration: qemu_savevm_state_setup(): Fix double PRECOPY_NOTIFY_SETUP call (Maciej S. Szmigiero) [Orabug: 39154816]
- multifd: Fix device state transfer (Maciej S. Szmigiero) [Orabug: 39154816]
- vfio/migration: Send VFIO_MIGRATION event before PRE_COPY_P2P transition (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 39122260]
- vfio/migration: Adapt to upstream uAPI for VFIO_PRECOPY_INFO_REINIT (Maciej S. Szmigiero) [Orabug: 39121536]
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Thu Mar 19 2026 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-35.el9
- migration: Disable switchover-ack-legacy by default for Exadata (Maciej S. Szmigiero) [Orabug: 37502472]
- vfio/migration: Check VFIO_PRECOPY_INFO_REINIT during completion (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- vfio/migration: Implement VFIO_PRECOPY_INFO_REINIT (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- vfio/migration: Implement new switchover-ack mechanism (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- vfio/migration: Add Error ** parameter to vfio_migration_init() (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- vfio/migration: Re-query precopy size before sending VFIO_MIG_FLAG_DEV_INIT_DATA_SENT (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- migration: Check switchover-ack during switchover phase (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- migration: Make switchover-ack re-usable (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- migration: Refactor switchover-ack code (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- linux-headers: Bring initial bytes re-init uAPI (Avihai Horon) [Orabug: 37502472]
- qemu-img: convert: add cli argument to use IO large buffers for convert (Akash Kulhalli) [Orabug: 37502472]
- hw/core/machine: Limit x-orcl-vm-tsc-khz-post-loadvm to KVM (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 39095032]
- migration: add extra check for block in cache_fini (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38885625]
- migration: do not tear down hash cache in critical path (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38885625]
- migration: free cache->blocks in cache_fini() (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 39061395]
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Tue Feb 17 2026 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-34.el9
- migration: bugfix - free migration_ops correctly (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38977316]
- target/i386/kvm: set VM ioctl KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ post loadvm (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38928409]
- migration: introduce KVM function called post loadvm (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38928409]
- migration: add extra checks in multifd_ram_fill_packet (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38949741]
- migration: fix the error path semantic in multifd thread (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38949741]
- page_cache: dynamic cache allocation (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38854239] [Orabug: 38949741]
- multifd: return errors on packets filling (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38854239]
- migration: detect errors on hash initialization (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration: propagate hashing errors (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration/multifd: Handle allocation failures (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration: Add Error** argument to ram_state_init() (Cédric Le Goater) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration: Add Error** argument to .load_setup() handler (Cédric Le Goater) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration: Add Error** argument to .save_setup() handler (Cédric Le Goater) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration: Add Error** argument to qemu_savevm_state_setup() (Cédric Le Goater) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration: Add Error** argument to vmstate_save() (Cédric Le Goater) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration: Always report an error in ram_save_setup() (Cédric Le Goater) [Orabug: 38876780]
- qemu-file: Make qemu_fflush() return errors (Juan Quintela) [Orabug: 38876780]
- qemu-file: remove shutdown member (Juan Quintela) [Orabug: 38876780]
- vfio: Always report an error in vfio_save_setup() (Cédric Le Goater) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration/vmstate: Introduce vmstate_save_state_with_err (Tejus GK) [Orabug: 38876780]
- migration/vfio: Remove x-orcl-device-dirty-page-tracking (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38944077]
- target/i386/kvm: write tsc_offset for parked vCPUs too (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38853905]
- accel/kvm:: move KVMParkedVcpu definition to header file (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38853905]
- target/i386/kvm: use vCPU 0 tsc_offset for all vCPUs (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38853905]
- target/i386/kvm: account downtime only with synchronized TSC (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38853905]
- target/i386/kvm: implement reset method for kvmclock (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38853905]
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Wed Jan 21 2026 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-33.el9
- migration: Change default pages to scan to 8192 for Exadata (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38732433]
- meson: check if isa-l installed and enable it (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38732433]
- migration/page_cache: Improve isal-crypto-mb-sha256 cache-miss handling (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 38732433]
- migration/page_cache: Add isal_crypto multi-buffer sha256 variant (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 38732433]
- migration/page_cache: Add batching mode support for isa-l_crypto (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 38732433]
- migration: Use algorithm table to initialize hashing (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38732433]
- migration: Add existing algorithms to description table (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38732433]
- migration: Add a unified description structure for hashing algorithms (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38732433]
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Tue Dec 23 2025 Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-32.el9
- spec: Provide aarch64 and mips user static packages (Mark Kanda)
These packages are for Oracle internal use only (not for external customers)
- cpu: Only compile runstate_is_running() for system mode (Mark Kanda)
- linux-user: Do not define struct sched_attr if libc headers do (Khem Raj)
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Tue Dec 09 2025 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-31.el9
- migration: Fix the cancellation/error path (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38739293]
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Wed Dec 03 2025 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-30.el9
- live migration: scan and clear contiguous dirty pages regions of ram (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38388170]
- migration: add hash_rate trace point (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38388170]
- migration: add parameter to specify max number of contiguous pages (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38388170]
- multifd: send more pages then IOV_MAX (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 38388170]
- io: fix use after free in websocket handshake code (Daniel P. Berrangé) [Orabug: 38687831] {CVE-2025-11234}
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Fri Oct 24 2025 Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-29.el9
- hw/core/machine.c: Add vhost-scsi-pci num_queues = 1 to hw_compat_7_2_exadata (Greg Jumper) [Orabug: 38544462]
- target/i386/kvm: account blackout downtime for kvm-clock and guest TSC (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38307402]
- cpus: resume hotplugged vCPU only when the guest is running (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 38307402]
- system/qdev-monitor: move drain_call_rcu call under if (!dev) in qmp_device_add() (Dmitrii Gavrilov) [Orabug: 38298220]
- acpi: pcihp: allow repeating hot-unplug requests (Igor Mammedov) [Orabug: 38257990]
- hw/usb/hcd-uhci: don't assert for SETUP to non-0 endpoint (Peter Maydell) [Orabug: 37517799] {CVE-2024-8354}
- target/i386: Introduce GraniteRapids-v2 model (Tao Su) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: Add AVX512 state when AVX10 is supported (Tao Su) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: Add feature dependencies for AVX10 (Tao Su) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: add CPUID.24 features for AVX10 (Tao Su) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: add AVX10 feature and AVX10 version property (Tao Su) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: return bool from x86_cpu_filter_features (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: do not rely on ExtSaveArea for accelerator-supported XCR0 bits (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: Call accel-agnostic x86_cpu_get_supported_cpuid() (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 38330786]
- target/i386: Add new CPU model GraniteRapids (Tao Su) [Orabug: 38330786]
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Tue Sep 09 2025 Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com> - 7.2.0-28.el9
- hw/i386: Add an exadata machine (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 38408711]
- arm/kvm: add support for MTE (Cornelia Huck)
- target/arm: When tag memory is not present, set MTE=1 (Richard Henderson)
- spec: provide qemu-kvm-device-usb-host package (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 38355110]
- kvm.conf: do not automatically enable virt when loading kvm (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 38320046]