From: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.0 is now available
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:15:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151217001533.2158.93946@loki> (raw)
Hello,
On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 2.5.0 release. This release contains 2000+ commits from 185
authors.
You can grab the tarball from our download page here:
http://wiki.qemu.org/Download
As with the 2.4.0 release, the QEMU team has put together a video
featuring interviews with a number of QEMU maintainers to highlight
and describe some of the new features/changes in this release. You
can view the video here (our thanks to Amit for organizing this
again!):
http://log.amitshah.net/2015/12/qemu-maintainer-interviews-for-the-2-5-release/
The full list of changes are available at:
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.5
Highlights include:
* Post-copy-based live migration support
* Full introspection support for QEMU Management Protocol
* PCIe multi-function hotplug support
* Performance improvement for virtio-pci using virtio-1 mode
* virtio-gpu now supports 3D mode
* vhost-user now supports multi-queue
* ARM: support for i.MX31 SoC (via 'kzm' machine type)
* ARM: SMBIOS support for 'virt' machine type
* ARM: support for semihosting on AArch64
* PowerPC: improved ability to boot MacOS 9
* PowerPC: pseries support for memory hotplug
* PowerPC: pseries support for virtio-vga
* PowerPC: pseries support for paravirt RNG
* s390: Support for virtio-1 in virtio-ccw devices
* Tile-Gx: initial support for Tile-Gx ISA
* x86: emulated IOMMU/VT-d supports devices behind a bridge
* x86: Xen support for integrated Intel GPU passthrough
* x86: support for new clflushopt/clwb/pcommit memory instructions
* and lots more...
Thank you to everyone involved!
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