Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 3.0.0 release. This release contains 2300+ commits from 169 authors.
A note from the maintainer: Why 3.0? Well, we felt that our version numbers were getting a bit unwieldy, and since this year is QEMU's 15th birthday it seemed like a good excuse to roll over the major digit. Going forward we plan to increment the major version once a year, for the first release of the year. Don't read too much into it: it doesn't imply a drastic compatibility break. Rumours of our triskaidekaphobia have been greatly exaggerated :-) You can grab the tarball from our download page here: https://www.qemu.org/download/#source The full list of changes are available at: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/3.0 Highlights include: * Support for additional x86/AMD mitigations against Speculative Store Bypass (Spectre Variant 4, CVE-2018-3639) * Improved support for nested KVM guests running on Hyper-V * Block device support for active disk-mirroring, which avoids convergence issues which may arise when doing passive/background mirroring of busy devices. * Improved support for AHCI emulation, SCSI emulation, and persistent reservations / cluster management. * OpenGL ES support for SDL front-end, additional framebuffer device options for early boot display without using legacy VGA emulation * Live migration support for TPM TIS devices, capping bandwidth usage during post-copy migration, and recovering from a failed post-copy migration * Improved latency when using user-mode networking / SLIRP * ARM: support for SMMUv3 IOMMU when using 'virt' machine type * ARM: v8M extensions for VLLDM and VLSTM floating-point instructions, and improved support for AArch64 v8.2 FP16 extensions * ARM: support for Scalable Vector Extensions in linux-user mode * Microblaze: support for 64-bit address sizes and translation bug fixes * PowerPC: PMU support for mac99 machine type and improvements for Uninorth PCI host bridge emulation for Mac machine types * PowerPC: preliminary support for emulating POWER9 hash MMU mode when using powernv machine type. * RISC-V: improvement for privileged ISA emulation * s390: support for z14 ZR1 CPU model * s390: bpb/ppa15 Spectre mitigations enabled by default for z196 and later CPU models * s390: support for configuring consoles via -serial options * and lots more... Thank you to everyone involved!
