From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeSQg-0000Ma-Bh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeSQZ-0003CB-Ss for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:18 -0400 Received: from e23smtp02.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.144]:47397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeSQZ-0003Ao-8s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:11 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp02.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:46:32 +1000 Received: from d23relay05.au.ibm.com (d23relay05.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.152]) by d23dlp03.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BB7357804E for ; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:55:06 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by d23relay05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r4KFepCM16908342 for ; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:40:51 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r4KFt6KY029573 for ; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:55:06 +1000 Received: from titi.na.relay.ibm.com (sig-9-48-87-42.mts.ibm.com [9.48.87.42]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id r4KFt3rh029521 for ; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:55:05 +1000 From: Anthony Liguori Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:55:03 -0500 Message-ID: <87bo85bq94.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.5.0 release List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 1.5.0 release! http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.5.0.tar.bz2 This release was developed in a little more than 90 days by over 130 unique authors averaging 20 commits a day. This represents a year-to-year growth of over 38 percent making it the most active release in QEMU history. Highlights of this release include: - KVM for ARM support - A native GTK+ UI with internationalization support - Experimental VFIO support for VGA passthrough - Kernel accelerated paravirtual SCSI via tcm_vhost support - TLS support for VNC over websockets - VHDX support (read-only) - Significant performance improvements for TCG on Windows hosts - Support for VMware PVSCSI and VMXNET3 device emulation - USB passthrough now uses libusb - Support for booting from virtio-ccw for s390x guests - Paravirtual guest panic notification support - TPM passthrough support - CPU hot-add support - Character device hotplug and other improvements - QCOW2 internal snapshot performance improvements - And much more... The full change log can be found at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.5 Information about future stable releases of the 1.5 series can be found at: http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.5 I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this release by submitting patches, testing out -rcs, or reporting bugs during the release process! Regards, Anthony Liguori