From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9MEV-00072u-IC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:15:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9MER-0000up-Fd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:15:47 -0500 Received: from e14.ny.us.ibm.com ([129.33.205.204]:39916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9MER-0000uW-B9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:15:43 -0500 Received: from localhost by e14.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:15:41 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by b01cxnp23034.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id tBH0Fcc533161262 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:15:38 GMT Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id tBH0FcEq009253 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:15:38 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Michael Roth Message-ID: <20151217001533.2158.93946@loki> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:15:33 -0600 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.5.0 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 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-re= lease/ 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!