From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBBN8-0005Aq-Hb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:45:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBBN3-0003RE-LD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:45:34 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:43022 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBBN3-0003R5-Dp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:45:29 -0400 From: Thomas Huth Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 05:45:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1524627918-9661-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post about the release of version 2.12.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Roth , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini Based on the contents of Michael Roth's announce e-mail for 2.12.0. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- _posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md diff --git a/_posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md b/_posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fdc4aea --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-04-25-qemu-2-12-0.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "QEMU version 2.12.0 released" +date: 2018-04-25 05:30:00 +0200 +categories: [releases, 'qemu 2.12'] +--- +We'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.12.0 release. +This release contains 2700+ commits from 204 authors. + +You can grab the tarball from our +[download page](https://www.qemu.org/download/#source). +The full list of changes are available +[in the Wiki](https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.12). + +Highlights include: + + * Spectre/Meltdown mitigation support for x86/pseries/s390 guests. For + more details see: + https://www.qemu.org/2018/02/14/qemu-2-11-1-and-spectre-update/ + * Numerous block support improvements, including support for directly + interacting with userspace NVMe driver, and general improvements to + NBD server/client including more efficient reads of sparse files + * Networking support for VMWare paravirtualized RDMA device (RDMA + HCA and Soft-RoCE supported), CAN bus support via Linux SocketCAN and + SJA1000-based PCI interfaces, and general improvements for dual-stack + IPv4/IPv6 environments + * GUI security/bug fixes, dmabufs support for GTK/Spice. + * Better IPMI support for Platform Events and SEL logging in internal + BMC emulation + * SMBIOS support for "OEM Strings", which can be used for automating + guest image activation without relying on network-based querying + * Disk cache information via virtio-balloon + * ARM: AArch64 new instructions for FCMA/RDM and SIMD/FP16/crypto/complex + number extensions + * ARM: initial support for Raspberry Pi 3 machine type + * ARM: Corex-M33/Armv8-M emulation via new mps2-an505 board and many + other improvements for M profile emulation + * HPPA: support for full machine emulation (hppa-softmmu) + * PowerPC: PPC4xx emulation improvements, including I2C bus support + * PowerPC: new Sam460ex machine type + * PowerPC: significant TCG performance improvements + * PowerPC: pseries: support for Spectre/Meltdown mitigations + * RISC-V: new RISC-V target via "spike_v1.9.1", "spike_v1.10", and "virt" + machine types + * s390: non-virtual devices no longer require dedicated channel subsystem + and guest support for multiple CSSs + * s390: general PCI improvements, MSI-X support for virtio-pci devices + * s390: improved TCG emulation support + * s390: KVM support for systems larger than 7.999TB + * SPARC: sun4u power device emulation + * SPARC: improved trace-event support and emulation/debug fixes + * Tricore: new instruction variants for JEQ/JNE and 64-bit MOV + * x86: Intel IOMMU support for 48-bit addresses + * Xtensa: backend now uses libisa for instruction decoding/disassebly + * Xtensa: multi-threaded TCG support and noMMU configuration variants + * and lots more... + +Thank you to everyone involved! -- 1.8.3.1