From: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:00:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161220210053.31842.32241@loki> (raw)
Hello,
On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 2.8.0 release. This release contains 1900+ commits from 201
authors.
You can grab the tarball from our download page here:
http://wiki.qemu.org/Download
The full list of changes are available at:
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.8
Highlights include:
* Support for fault-tolerant guests via COLO (COarse-grained LOck-stepping)
* Support for fast host/guest socket communication over virtio via AF_VSOCK
* Support for compressed formats when generating live backups
* Support for new virtio-crypto device
* Improved display rendering when using SPICE GUI in OpenGL mode
* ACPI support for NVDIMM device hotplug
* ARM: 'virt' machine support for ITS when using ACPI
* ARM: Aspeed board improvements
* ARM: STM32F2xx board (Netduino 2) support for ADC and SPI devices
* MIPS: support for 24KEc CPUs
* PPC: support for POWER9 CPUs and powernv platform
* PPC: pseries support for more the 1TiB of guest memory and memory unplug
* PPC: pseries support PCI host bridge NUMA affinities
* s390: support for CPU models and virtio-ccw revision 2
* x86: support for Extended Interrupt Mode in emulated IOMMUs
* x86: support for up to 288 CPUs on q35 machine type
* Xen: unplug support for SCSI disks and xenlinux-compatible devices
* and lots more...
Thank you to everyone involved!
next reply other threads:[~2016-12-20 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-20 21:00 Michael Roth [this message]
2016-12-21 5:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available Holger Schranz
2016-12-21 14:00 ` Michael Roth
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