From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38677) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cJRXd-0004pk-9s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:01:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cJRXZ-0006Kf-Dw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:01:45 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:55736 helo=mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cJRXZ-0006Jp-9Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:01:41 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098419.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.17/8.16.0.17) with SMTP id uBKKxRvK005238 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:01:39 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com (e33.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.151]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 27f70uck7n-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:01:39 -0500 Received: from localhost by e33.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 20 Dec 2016 14:01:38 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Michael Roth Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:00:53 -0600 Message-Id: <20161220210053.31842.32241@loki> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, stefanha@redhat.com Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.8.0 release. This release contains 1900+ commits from 201 authors. You can grab the tarball from our download page here: http://wiki.qemu.org/Download The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.8 Highlights include: * Support for fault-tolerant guests via COLO (COarse-grained LOck-stepping) * Support for fast host/guest socket communication over virtio via AF_VSOCK * Support for compressed formats when generating live backups * Support for new virtio-crypto device * Improved display rendering when using SPICE GUI in OpenGL mode * ACPI support for NVDIMM device hotplug * ARM: 'virt' machine support for ITS when using ACPI * ARM: Aspeed board improvements * ARM: STM32F2xx board (Netduino 2) support for ADC and SPI devices * MIPS: support for 24KEc CPUs * PPC: support for POWER9 CPUs and powernv platform * PPC: pseries support for more the 1TiB of guest memory and memory unplug * PPC: pseries support PCI host bridge NUMA affinities * s390: support for CPU models and virtio-ccw revision 2 * x86: support for Extended Interrupt Mode in emulated IOMMUs * x86: support for up to 288 CPUs on q35 machine type * Xen: unplug support for SCSI disks and xenlinux-compatible devices * and lots more... Thank you to everyone involved!