From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.2.0 release
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:41:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5kotobj.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
Hi,
On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
QEMU 1.2 release!
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.2.0.tar.bz2
Even though this was the shortest release cycle in QEMU's history, it
contains an impressive 1400 changesets from 180 unique authors.
See the ChangeLog on the wiki for a full changelog:
http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/1.2
Major features include:
- The ability to pass fds for block devices enabling sVirt on NFS
- arm: LPAE support for the Cortex-A15 CPU
- arm: a new machine type: i.MX32
- A new dump-guest-memory command to produce ELF dumps of guests
- pseries: support for PCI and IOMMU emulation
- ppc: better support for device trees including a dumpdtb option
- ppc: emulation of e5500 cores
- prep: parallel port emulation
- xen: support for PCI passthrough
- kvm: MSI support for in-kernel APIC
- vga: std-vga and QXL now support 16MB of VRAM
- scsi: emulation of am53c974, dc390, and megasas controllers
- usb: emulation of scsi controller
- block: guest control of write-cache setting
- block: default cache mode is now writeback
- block: improved support for passthrough of SCSI tapes changers
- achi: emulation of CD-ROM devices
- block-stream: better support for sparse raw files
- qcow2: lazy refcount mode for improved writethrough performance
- qemu-img: check command can now repair qcow2/qed images
- migration: support for large memory guests
- migration: support for XBZRLE compression
- vnc: threaded server enabled by default
- qemu-ga: support for fstrim
- openrisc emulation support
- and much, much more...
Deprecation announcements:
- The 'cpudef' config file section will be removed in 1.3
- The -help output from QEMU will change in 1.3
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
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