Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.9.0 release. This release contains 2300+ commits from 199 authors.
You can grab the tarball from our download page here: http://www.qemu.org/download/#source The full list of changes are available at: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.9 Highlights include: * I/O-polling support for virtio-blk (and virtio-scsi experimentally), which can improve I/O-heavy workloads by as much as 10-20% * Core support for MTTCG (multi-threaded TCG emulation), now enabled by default for Alpha and ARM on x86 machines * Hardware-acceleration support for x86 guests on Windows via HAXM * Hotplug and HMAC algorithm support for virtio-crypto devices * vhost support for virtio-pci devices behind a guest IOMMU * Many stability fixes for XHCI emulation * Significant security improvements and I/O throttling support for virtfs/virtio-9p * Texinfo documentation for all QMP commands and events * Postcopy migration can now by used for guests using hugetlbfs-backed memory * ARM: support for MTTCG (see above) * ARM: support for hardware RNG, BCM2835 SD card controller, and GPIO controller when emulating Raspberry Pi board. * MIPS: support for MIPS Boston board on MIPS64EL * Nios2: Initial support for Nios-II R1 boards, emulating 10M50 development kit with Nios2 GHRD loaded in the FPGA * OpenRISC: Lots of fixes and new instructions * PowerPC: support for many new POWER9 instructions via TCG emulation, new "40p" machine type, and pseries support for H_SIGNAL_SYS_RESET hypercall * s390: support for multiple buses for zPCI, virtio-crypto, and booting via network. * SPARC: rewritten support for Niagara * Tricore: support for many additional instructions * x86: support for 5-level paging under TCG emulation, caching mode support for emulation guest IOMMU, and SMI feature negotiation for q35 machines. * Xtensa: support for -icount * and lots more... Thank you to everyone involved!
