[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available
From: |
Michael Roth |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:00:53 -0600 |
User-agent: |
alot/0.3.6 |
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!
- [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available,
Michael Roth <=