QEMU version 5.1.0 released
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We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 5.1.0 release. This release contains 2500+ commits from 235 authors.
You can grab the tarball from our download page. The full list of changes are available in the Wiki.
Highlights include:
- ARM: support for ARMv8.2 TTS2UXN architecture feature
- ARM: support for ARMv8.5 MemTag architecture feature
- ARM: new board support for sonorapass-bmc
- ARM: virt: support for memory hot-unplug
- ARM: support for nvdimm hotplug for ACPI guests
- AVR: new architecture support for AVR CPUs
- AVR: new board support for Arduino Duemilanove, Arduino Mega 2560, Arduino Mega, and Arduino UNO
- MIPS: support for Loongson 3A CPUs (R1 and R4)
- MIPS: performance improvements for FPU and MSA instruction emulation
- PowerPC: support for guest error recovery via FWNMI
- RISC-V: support for SiFive E34 and Ibex CPUs
- RISC-V: new board support for HiFive1 revB and OpenTitan
- RISC-V: Spike machine now supports more than 1 CPU
- s390: KVM support for protected virtualization (secure execution mode)
- x86: improvements to HVF acceleration support on macOS
- x86: reduced virtualization overhead for non-enlightened Windows guests via Windows ACPI Emulated Device Table
- block: support for 2MB logical/physical blocksizes for virtual storage devices
- crypto: support for passing secrets to QEMU via Linux keyring
- crypto: support for LUKS keyslot management via qemu-img
- NVMe: support for Persistent Memory Region from NVMe 1.4 spec
- qemu-img: additional features added for map/convert/measure commands, as well as support for zstd compression
- qemu-img: support for new ‘bitmap’ command for manipulating persistent bitmaps in qcow2 files
- virtio: TCG guests can now use vhost-user threads
- virtio: vhost-user now supports registering more than 8 RAM slots
- and lots more…
Thank you to everyone involved!
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