From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9IfO-0003nN-26 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:41:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9IfF-0008PV-Ii for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:41:26 -0400 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:53383) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9IfF-0008Ob-Ej for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:41:17 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e9.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:41:14 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by d01dlp02.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D9B6E8065 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:41:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q85Gf9gn130948 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:41:09 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q85Gf7Pj001729 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:41:08 -0600 Received: from titi.na.relay.ibm.com (sig-9-65-197-11.mts.ibm.com [9.65.197.11]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id q85Gf5Fn001582 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:41:07 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:41:04 -0500 Message-ID: <87y5kotobj.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.2.0 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 1.2 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