[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.11.0 is now available

[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.11.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 2.11.0 release. This release contains 2000+ commits from 165 
authors.

You can grab the tarball from our download page here:

  https://www.qemu.org/download/#source

The full list of changes are available at:

  https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.11

Highlights include:

 * Improved support for running Hyper-V on top of KVM
 * New hotpluggable PCIe-to-PCI bridge device with SHPC support
 * Experimental GPUDirect support for Nvidia passthrough devices (p2p DMA)
 * Better performance using integrated LUKS support for block devices
 * Added a qemu-block-drivers man page
 * TPM emulation support
 * Ability to hotplug a watchdog device and specify watchdog actions at
   runtime
 * UI: improved client support for VNC via websockets
 * UI: better keymap support for SDL/GTK/Cocoa front-ends and various input
   devices

 * ARM: support for Smartfusion2 board
 * ARM: improved performance for PCI passthrough devices using INTx
 * ARM: improved XEN support for AArch64 guests
 * OpenRISC: experimental support for SMP
 * PowerPC: fixes for Mac machine types
 * PowerPC: pseries: support for virtual SMT modes in guests
 * s390: support for virtio-input-ccw and virtio-gpu-ccw
 * s390: support for CPU hotplug via newer device_add interface
 * s390: experimental support for multiple vcpu threads under full emulation
 * SPARC: sun4u: support for sunhme (Happy Meal Ethernet) NIC
 * SPARC: sun4u: use of Simba PCI bridges to better match Ultra 5 PCI
   topology

 * and lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!