QEMU version 6.2.0 released

sorangutan

We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 6.2.0 release. This release contains 2300+ commits from 189 authors.

You can grab the tarball from our download page. The full list of changes are available in the Wiki.

Highlights include:

virtio-mem: guest memory dumps are now fully supported, along with pre-copy/post-copy migration and background guest snapshots
QMP: support for nw DEVICE_UNPLUG_GUEST_ERROR to detect guest-reported hotplug failures
TCG: improvements to TCG plugin argument syntax, and multi-core support for cache plugin
68k: improved support for Apple’s NuBus, including ability to load declaration ROMs, and slot IRQ support
ARM: macOS hosts with Apple Silicon CPUs now support ‘hvf’ accelerator for AArch64 guests
ARM: emulation support for Fujitsu A64FX processor model
ARM: emulation support for kudo-mbc machine type
ARM: M-profile MVE extension is now supported for Cortex-M55
ARM: ‘virt’ machine now supports an emulated ITS (Interrupt Translation Service) and supports more than 123 CPUs in emulation mode
ARM: xlnx-zcu102 and xlnx-versal-virt machines now support BBRAM and eFUSE devices
PowerPC: improved POWER10 support for the ‘powernv’ machine type
PowerPC: initial support for POWER10 DD2.0 CPU model
PowerPC: support for FORM2 PAPR NUMA descriptions for ‘pseries’ machine type
RISC-V: support for Zb[abcs] instruction set extensions
RISC-V: support for vhost-user and numa mem options across all boards
RISC-V: SiFive PWM support
x86: support for new Snowridge-v4 CPU model
x86: guest support for Intel SGX
x86: AMD SEV guests now support measurement of kernel binary when doing direct kernel boot (not using a bootloader)
and lots more…

Thank you to everyone involved!