* [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 5.1.0 is now available
@ 2020-08-11 22:25 Michael Roth
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From: Michael Roth @ 2020-08-11 22:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel; +Cc: peter.maydell
Hello,
On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 5.1.0 release. This release contains 2500+ commits from 235
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/5.1
Highlights include:
* ARM: support for ARMv8.2 TTS2UXN architecture feature
* ARM: support for ARMv8.5 MemTag architecture feature
* ARM: new board support for sonorapass-bmc
* ARM: virt: support for memory hot-unplug
* ARM: support for nvdimm hotplug for ACPI guests
* AVR: new architecture support for AVR CPUs
* AVR: new board support for Arduino Duemilanove, Arduino Mega 2560,
Arduino Mega, and Arduino UNO
* MIPS: support for Loongson 3A CPUs (R1 and R4)
* MIPS: performance improvements for FPU and MSA instruction
emulation
* PowerPC: support for guest error recovery via FWNMI
* RISC-V: support for SiFive E34 and Ibex CPUs
* RISC-V: new board support for HiFive1 revB and OpenTitan
* RISC-V: Spike machine now supports more than 1 CPU
* s390: KVM support for protected virtualization (secure execution mode)
* x86: improvements to HVF acceleration support on macOS
* x86: reduced virtualization overhead for non-enlightened Windows
guests via Windows ACPI Emulated Device Table
* block: support for 2MB logical/physical blocksizes for virtual
storage devices
* crypto: support for passing secrets to QEMU via Linux keyring
* crypto: support for LUKS keyslot management via qemu-img
* NVMe: support for Persistent Memory Region from NVMe 1.4 spec
* qemu-img: additional features added for map/convert/measure commands,
as well as support for zstd compression
* qemu-img: support for new 'bitmap' command for manipulating
persistent bitmaps in qcow2 files
* virtio: TCG guests can now use vhost-user threads
* virtio: vhost-user now supports registering more than 8 RAM slots
* and lots more...
Thank you to everyone involved!
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