[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 9.0.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 9.0.0 release. This release contains 2700+ commits from 220
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/9.0

Highlights include:

 * block: virtio-blk now supports multiqueue where different queues of a
   single disk can be processed by different I/O threads
 * gdbstub: various improvements such as catching syscalls in user-mode,
   support for fork-follow modes, and support for siginfo:read
 * memory: preallocation of memory backends can now be handled
   concurrently using multiple threads in some cases
 * migration: support for "mapped-ram" capability allowing for more
   efficient VM snapshots, improved support for zero-page detection, and
   checkpoint-restart support for VFIO

 * ARM: architectural feature support for ECV (Enhanced Counter
   Virtualization), NV (Nested Virtualization), and NV2 (Enhanced Nested
   Virtualization)
 * ARM: board support for B-L475E-IOT01A IoT node, mp3-an536 (MPS3 dev board
   + AN536 firmware), and raspi4b (Raspberry Pi 4 Model B)
 * ARM: additional IO/disk/USB/SPI/ethernet controller and timer support for
   Freescale i.MX6, Allwinner R40, Banana Pi, npcm7xxx, and virt boards
 * HPPA: numerous bug fixes and SeaBIOS-hppa firmware updated to version 16
 * LoongArch: KVM acceleration support, including LSX/LASX vector extensions
 * RISC-V: ISA/extension support for Zacas, amocas, RVA22 profiles,
   Zaamo, Zalrsc, Ztso, and more
 * RISC-V: SMBIOS support for RISC-V virt machine, ACPI support for
   SRAT, SLIT, AIA, PLIC and updated RHCT table support, and numerous
   fixes
 * s390x: Emulation support for CVDG, CVB, CVBY and CVBG instructions,
   and fixes for LAE (Load Address Extended) emulation

 * and lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!