[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 9.1.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 9.1.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 263
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/9.1

Highlights include:

 * migration: compression offload support via Intel In-Memory Analytics
   Accelerator (IAA) or User Space Accelerator Development Kit (UADK),
   along with enhanced support for postcopy failure recovery
 * virtio: support for VIRTIO_F_NOTIFICATION_DATA, allowing guest drivers
   to provide additional data as part of sending device notifications for
   performance/debug purposes
 * guest-agent: support for guest-network-get-route command on linux,
   guest-ssh-* commands on Windows, and enhanced CLI support for
   configuring allowed/blocked commands
 * block: security fixes for QEMU NBD server and NBD TLS encryption

 * ARM: emulation support for FEAT_NMI, FEAT_CSV2_3, FEAT_ETS2,
   FEAT_Spec_FPACC, FEAT_WFxT, FEAT_Debugv8p8 architecture features
 * ARM: nested/two-stage page table support for emulated SMMUv3
 * ARM: xilinx_zynq board support for cache controller and multiple CPUs,
   and B-L475E-IOT01A board support for a DM163 display
 * LoongArch: support for directly booting an ELF kernel and for running
   up to 256 vCPUs via extioi virt extension
 * LoongArch: enhanced debug/GDB support
 * RISC-V: support for version 1.13 of privileged architecture specification
 * RISC-V: support for Zve32x, Zve64x, Zimop, Zcmop, Zama16b, Zabha, Zawrs,
   and Smcntrpmf extensions
 * RISC-V: enhanced debug/GDB support and general fixes
 * SPARC: emulation support for FMAF, IMA, VIS3, and VIS4 architecture
   features
 * x86: KVM support for running AMD SEV-SNP guests
 * x86: CPU emulation support for Icelake-Server-v7, SapphireRapids-v3, and
   SierraForest

 * and lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!