[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.1.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 8.1.0 release. This release contains 2900+ commits from 250
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/8.1

Highlights include:

 * VFIO: improved live migration support, no longer an experimental feature
 * GTK GUI now supports multi-touch events
 * ARM, PowerPC, and RISC-V can now use AES acceleration on host processor
 * PCIe: new QMP commands to inject CXL General Media events, DRAM events and
   Memory Module events

 * ARM: KVM VMs on a host which supports MTE (the Memory Tagging Extension)
   can now use MTE in the guest
 * ARM: emulation support for bpim2u (Banana Pi BPI-M2 Ultra) board and
   neoverse-v1 (Cortex Neoverse-V1) CPU
 * ARM: new architectural feature support for: FEAT_PAN3 (SCTLR_ELx.EPAN),
   FEAT_LSE2 (Large System Extensions v2), and experimental support for
   FEAT_RME (Realm Management Extensions)
 * Hexagon: new instruction support for v68/v73 scalar, and v68/v69 HVX
 * Hexagon: gdbstub support for HVX
 * MIPS: emulation support for Ingenic XBurstR1/XBurstR2 CPUs, and MXU
   instructions
 * PowerPC: TCG SMT support, allowing pseries and powernv to run with up to 8
   threads per core
 * PowerPC: emulation support for Power9 DD2.2 CPU model, and perf sampling
   support for POWER CPUs
 * RISC-V: ISA extension support for BF16/Zfa, and disassembly support
   for Zcm*/Z*inx/XVentanaCondOps/Xthead
 * RISC-V: CPU emulation support for Veyron V1
 * RISC-V: numerous KVM/emulation fixes and enhancements 
 * s390: instruction emulation fixes for LDER, LCBB, LOCFHR, MXDB, MXDBR,
   EPSW, MDEB, MDEBR, MVCRL, LRA, CKSM, CLM, ICM, MC, STIDP, EXECUTE, and
   CLGEBR(A)
 * SPARC: updated target/sparc to use tcg_gen_lookup_and_goto_ptr() for
   improved performance
 * Tricore: emulation support for TC37x CPU that supports ISA v1.6.2
   instructions
 * Tricore: instruction emulation of POPCNT.W, LHA, CRC32L.W, CRC32.B,
   SHUFFLE, SYSCALL, and DISABLE
 * x86: CPU model support for GraniteRapids

 * and lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!