The following patches are queued for QEMU stable v8.1.5:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commits/staging-8.1

Patch freeze is 2024-01-27, and the release is planned for 2024-01-29:

  https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/8.1

Please respond here or CC qemu-stable@nongnu.org on any additional patches
you think should (or shouldn't) be included in the release.

The changes which are staging for inclusion, with the original commit hash
from master branch, are given below the bottom line.

This is supposed to be last release of 8.1.x stable/bugfix series.

Thanks!

/mjt

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01* d3007d348ada Kevin Wolf:
   block: Fix crash when loading snapshot on inactive node
02* 5a7f21efaf99 Kevin Wolf:
   vl: Improve error message for conflicting -incoming and -loadvm
03* bb6e2511eb48 Kevin Wolf:
   iotests: Basic tests for internal snapshots
04* 25145a7d7735 Pavel Pisa:
   hw/net/can/sja1000: fix bug for single acceptance filter and standard 
   frame
05* 5cb0e7abe163 Xu Lu:
   target/riscv: Fix mcycle/minstret increment behavior
06* 4ad87cd4b225 Michael Tokarev:
   chardev/char.c: fix "abstract device type" error message
07* 82a65e3188ab Peter Maydell:
   hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpuif: handle LPIs in in the list registers
08* 1d513e06d966 Natanael Copa:
   util: fix build with musl libc on ppc64le
09* c98873ee4a0c Samuel Tardieu:
   tests/qtest/virtio-ccw: Fix device presence checking
10* e358a25a97c7 Ilya Leoshkevich:
   target/s390x: Fix LAE setting a wrong access register
11* 52a21689cd82 Peter Maydell:
   .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml: Work around htags bug when environment is 
   large
12 410c2a4d75f5 Anastasia Belova:
   load_elf: fix iterator's type for elf file processing
13 a58506b748b8 Richard Henderson:
   target/i386: Do not re-compute new pc with CF_PCREL
14 2926eab89699 guoguangyao:
   target/i386: fix incorrect EIP in PC-relative translation blocks
15 729ba8e933f8 Paolo Bonzini:
   target/i386: pcrel: store low bits of physical address in data[0]
16 484aecf2d3a7 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé:
   backends/cryptodev: Do not ignore throttle/backends Errors
17 3b14a555fdb6 Gerd Hoffmann:
   hw/pflash: refactor pflash_data_write()
18 5dd58358a570 Gerd Hoffmann:
   hw/pflash: use ldn_{be,le}_p and stn_{be,le}_p
19 284a7ee2e290 Gerd Hoffmann:
   hw/pflash: implement update buffer for block writes
20 44ce1b5d2fc7 Nick Briggs:
   migration/rdma: define htonll/ntohll only if not predefined
21 84a6835e004c Mark Cave-Ayland:
   hw/scsi/esp-pci: use correct address register for PCI DMA transfers
22 6b41417d934b Mark Cave-Ayland:
   hw/scsi/esp-pci: generate PCI interrupt from separate ESP and PCI sources
23 1e8e6644e063 Mark Cave-Ayland:
   hw/scsi/esp-pci: synchronise setting of DMA_STAT_DONE with ESP completion 
   interrupt
24 c2d7de557d19 Mark Cave-Ayland:
   hw/scsi/esp-pci: set DMA_STAT_BCMBLT when BLAST command issued

(commit(s) marked with * were in previous series and are not resent)