[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available

[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

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!

Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available

[Holger Schranz]

Hi Michael,

could it be, that the link to qemu-2.8.0.tar.bz2 is linked to the
qemu-2.8.0-rc4.tar.bz2? The link for signature seems it is correct.

Best regards

Holger

Am 20.12.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Michael Roth:
> 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!
>
>


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Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.8.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Quoting Holger Schranz (2016-12-20 23:18:00)
> Hi Michael,
> 
> could it be, that the link to qemu-2.8.0.tar.bz2 is linked to the
> qemu-2.8.0-rc4.tar.bz2? The link for signature seems it is correct.

Argh, yes only one link was updated. Both links are correct now.

Thanks!

> 
> Best regards
> 
> Holger
> 
> Am 20.12.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Michael Roth:
> > 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!
> >
> >
> 
> 
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