QEMU version 7.2.0 released

sorangutan

We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 7.2.0 release. This release contains 1800+ commits from 205 authors.

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

Highlights include:

ARM: emulation support for the following CPU features: Enhanced Translation Synchronization, PMU Extensions v3.5, Guest Translation Granule size, Hardware management of access flag/dirty bit state, and Preventing EL0 access to halves of address maps
ARM: emulation support for Cortex-A35 CPUs
LoongArch: support for fw_cfg DMA functionality, memory hotplug, and TPM device emulation
OpenRISC: support for multi-threaded TCG, stability improvements, and new ‘virt’ machine type for CI/device testing.
RISC-V: ‘virt’ machine support for booting S-mode firmware from pflash, and general device tree improvements
s390x: support for Message-Security-Assist Extension 5 (RNG via PRNO instruction), SHA-512 via KIMD/KLMD instructions, and enhanced zPCI interpretation support for KVM guests
x86: TCG performance improvements, including SSE
x86: TCG support for AVX, AVX2, F16C, FMA3, and VAES instructions
x86: KVM support for “notify vmexit” mechanism to prevent processor bugs from hanging whole system
LUKS block device headers are validated more strictly, creating LUKS images is supported on macOS
Memory backends now support NUMA-awareness when preallocating memory
and lots more…

Thank you to everyone involved!