Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post about the release of version 2.12.0

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 25/04/2018 05:45, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Based on the contents of Michael Roth's announce e-mail for 2.12.0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
>  _posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md | 58 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 _posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md
> 
> diff --git a/_posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md 
> b/_posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..fdc4aea
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> +++ b/_posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md
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> +---
> +layout: post
> +title:  "QEMU version 2.12.0 released"
> +date:   2018-04-25 05:30:00 +0200
> +categories: [releases, 'qemu 2.12']
> +---
> +We'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.12.0 release.
> +This release contains 2700+ commits from 204 authors.
> +
> +You can grab the tarball from our 
> +[download page](https://www.qemu.org/download/#source).
> +The full list of changes are available
> +[in the Wiki](https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.12).
> +
> +Highlights include:
> +
> + * Spectre/Meltdown mitigation support for x86/pseries/s390 guests. For
> +   more details see:
> +     https://www.qemu.org/2018/02/14/qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-update/
> + * Numerous block support improvements, including support for directly
> +   interacting with userspace NVMe driver, and general improvements to
> +   NBD server/client including more efficient reads of sparse files
> + * Networking support for VMWare paravirtualized RDMA device (RDMA
> +   HCA and Soft-RoCE supported), CAN bus support via Linux SocketCAN and
> +   SJA1000-based PCI interfaces, and general improvements for dual-stack
> +   IPv4/IPv6 environments
> + * GUI security/bug fixes, dmabufs support for GTK/Spice.
> + * Better IPMI support for Platform Events and SEL logging in internal
> +   BMC emulation
> + * SMBIOS support for "OEM Strings", which can be used for automating
> +   guest image activation without relying on network-based querying
> + * Disk cache information via virtio-balloon
> + * ARM: AArch64 new instructions for FCMA/RDM and SIMD/FP16/crypto/complex
> +   number extensions
> + * ARM: initial support for Raspberry Pi 3 machine type
> + * ARM: Corex-M33/Armv8-M emulation via new mps2-an505 board and many
> +   other improvements for M profile emulation
> + * HPPA: support for full machine emulation (hppa-softmmu)
> + * PowerPC: PPC4xx emulation improvements, including I2C bus support
> + * PowerPC: new Sam460ex machine type
> + * PowerPC: significant TCG performance improvements
> + * PowerPC: pseries: support for Spectre/Meltdown mitigations
> + * RISC-V: new RISC-V target via "spike_v1.9.1", "spike_v1.10", and "virt"
> +   machine types
> + * s390: non-virtual devices no longer require dedicated channel subsystem
> +   and guest support for multiple CSSs
> + * s390: general PCI improvements, MSI-X support for virtio-pci devices
> + * s390: improved TCG emulation support
> + * s390: KVM support for systems larger than 7.999TB
> + * SPARC: sun4u power device emulation
> + * SPARC: improved trace-event support and emulation/debug fixes
> + * Tricore: new instruction variants for JEQ/JNE and 64-bit MOV
> + * x86: Intel IOMMU support for 48-bit addresses
> + * Xtensa: backend now uses libisa for instruction decoding/disassebly
> + * Xtensa: multi-threaded TCG support and noMMU configuration variants
> + * and lots more...
> +
> +Thank you to everyone involved!
> 

Go ahead and push it!  Do you have time to write a blog post about -net,
-nic and all that?

Thanks,

Paolo