Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.5.0 release. This release contains 2000+ commits from 185 authors.
You can grab the tarball from our download page here: http://wiki.qemu.org/Download As with the 2.4.0 release, the QEMU team has put together a video featuring interviews with a number of QEMU maintainers to highlight and describe some of the new features/changes in this release. You can view the video here (our thanks to Amit for organizing this again!): http://log.amitshah.net/2015/12/qemu-maintainer-interviews-for-the-2-5-release/ The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.5 Highlights include: * Post-copy-based live migration support * Full introspection support for QEMU Management Protocol * PCIe multi-function hotplug support * Performance improvement for virtio-pci using virtio-1 mode * virtio-gpu now supports 3D mode * vhost-user now supports multi-queue * ARM: support for i.MX31 SoC (via 'kzm' machine type) * ARM: SMBIOS support for 'virt' machine type * ARM: support for semihosting on AArch64 * PowerPC: improved ability to boot MacOS 9 * PowerPC: pseries support for memory hotplug * PowerPC: pseries support for virtio-vga * PowerPC: pseries support for paravirt RNG * s390: Support for virtio-1 in virtio-ccw devices * Tile-Gx: initial support for Tile-Gx ISA * x86: emulated IOMMU/VT-d supports devices behind a bridge * x86: Xen support for integrated Intel GPU passthrough * x86: support for new clflushopt/clwb/pcommit memory instructions * and lots more... Thank you to everyone involved!
