[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 8.2.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 8.2.0 release. This release contains 3200+ commits from 238
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/8.2

Highlights include:

 * New virtio-sound device emulation
 * New virtio-gpu rutabaga device emulation used by Android emulator
 * New hv-balloon for dynamic memory protocol device for Hyper-V guests
 * New Universal Flash Storage device emulation
 * Network Block Device (NBD) 64-bit offsets for improved performance
 * dump-guest-memory now supports the standard kdump format

 * ARM: Xilinx Versal board now models the CFU/CFI, and the TRNG device
 * ARM: CPU emulation support for cortex-a710 and neoverse-n2
 * ARM: architectural feature support for PACQARMA3, EPAC, Pauth2, FPAC,
   FPACCOMBINE, TIDCP1, MOPS, HBC, and HPMN0
 * HPPA: CPU emulation support for 64-bit PA-RISC 2.0
 * HPPA: machine emulation support for C3700, including Astro memory
   controller and four Elroy PCI bridges
 * LoongArch: ISA support for LASX extension and PRELDX instruction
 * LoongArch: CPU emulation support for la132
 * RISC-V: ISA/extension support for AIA virtualization support via KVM, 
   and vector cryptographic instructions
 * RISC-V: Numerous extension/instruction cleanups, fixes, and reworks
 * s390x: support for vfio-ap passthrough of crypto adapter for protected
   virtualization guests
 * Tricore: support for TC37x CPU which implements ISA v1.6.2
 * Tricore: support for CRCN, FTOU, FTOHP, and HPTOF instructions
 * x86: Zen support for PV console and network devices

 * and lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!