From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55797) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPZw-0005Nl-Nj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:32:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPZp-0005Ax-3A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:32:08 -0500 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:53124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPZo-0005Ar-VE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:32:01 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e9.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:31:58 -0500 Received: from b01cxnp22035.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01cxnp22035.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.198.25]) by d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D3AC9005A for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:23:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by b01cxnp22035.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id sB9IVtHo21168322 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:31:55 GMT Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id sB9IVsc5017425 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:31:54 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Michael Roth Message-ID: <20141209183152.27130.6503@loki> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:31:52 -0600 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.2.0 is now available List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.2.0 release. This release contains 1700+ commits from 171 authors. http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-2.2.0.tar.bz2 The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.2 Highlights include: * Dedicated dataplane thread for virtio-blk now supports disk resizing, hot-unplug, QEMU's built-in NBD support, and disk management features like live backup, mirroring, copy/streaming, and snapshot merging. * Experimental dedicated dataplane thread support for virtio-scsi disk controllers * Support for hotplugging USB controllers * Improved live-migration for guests using KVM paravirt clocksource * Support for direct booting of guest kernel images using Xen * Support for IOMMU (VT-d) emulation on Q35 x86 guests * TCG emulation support for breakpoints/watchpoints on ARM guests * TCG emulation support for PSCI firmware interface, allowing clean shutdown of fully emulated ARM guests * Emulation support for MIPS64 Release 6 architecture * Emulation support for MIPS SIMD architecture * Emulation support for Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 guests * Emulation support for TriCore architecture * TCG emulation optimizations for PowerPC guests * Improved guest kernel debugger support for pSeries guests * And lots more... Thank you to everyone involved! Sincerely, Michael Roth