* [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 6.1.0 is now available
@ 2021-08-24 20:24 Michael Roth
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From: Michael Roth @ 2021-08-24 20:24 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 6.1.0 release. This release contains 3000+ commits from 221
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/6.1
Highlights include:
* block: support for changing block node options after creation via
'blockdev-reopen' QMP command
* Crypto: more performant backend recommendations and improved documentation
* I2C: emulation support for I2C muxes (pca9546, pca9548) and PMBus
* TCG Plugins: now enabled by default, with new execlog and cache modelling
plugins [1].
* ARM: new board support for Aspeed (rainier-bmc, quanta-q7l1), npcm7xx
(quanta-gbs-bmc), and Cortex-M3 (stm32vldiscovery) based machines
* ARM: Aspeed support of Hash and Crypto Engine
* ARM: emulation support for SVE2 (including bfloat16), integer matrix multiply
accumulate operations, TLB invalidate in Outer Shareable domain, TLB range
invalidate, and more.
* PowerPC: pseries: support for detecting hotplug failures in newer guests
* PowerPC: pseries: increased maximum CPU count
* PowerPC: pseries: emulation support for some POWER10 prefixed instructions
* PowerPC: new board support for Genesi/bPlan Pegasos II (pegasos2)
* RISC-V: updates to OpenTitan platform support, including OpenTitan timer
* RISC-V: support for virtio-vga
* RISC-V: documentation improvements and general code cleanups/fixes
* s390: emulation support for the vector-enhancements facility
* s390: support for gen16 CPU models
* x86: new Intel CPU model versions with support for XSAVES instruction
* x86: added ACPI based PCI hotplug support for Q35 machine (now the default)
* x86: improvements to emulation of AMD virtualization extensions
* and lots more...
Thank you to everyone involved!
[1] https://www.qemu.org/2021/08/19/tcg-cache-modelling-plugin/
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