Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 6.1.0 release. This release contains 3000+ commits from 221 authors.
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/6.1 Highlights include: * block: support for changing block node options after creation via 'blockdev-reopen' QMP command * Crypto: more performant backend recommendations and improved documentation * I2C: emulation support for I2C muxes (pca9546, pca9548) and PMBus * TCG Plugins: now enabled by default, with new execlog and cache modelling plugins [1]. * ARM: new board support for Aspeed (rainier-bmc, quanta-q7l1), npcm7xx (quanta-gbs-bmc), and Cortex-M3 (stm32vldiscovery) based machines * ARM: Aspeed support of Hash and Crypto Engine * ARM: emulation support for SVE2 (including bfloat16), integer matrix multiply accumulate operations, TLB invalidate in Outer Shareable domain, TLB range invalidate, and more. * PowerPC: pseries: support for detecting hotplug failures in newer guests * PowerPC: pseries: increased maximum CPU count * PowerPC: pseries: emulation support for some POWER10 prefixed instructions * PowerPC: new board support for Genesi/bPlan Pegasos II (pegasos2) * RISC-V: updates to OpenTitan platform support, including OpenTitan timer * RISC-V: support for virtio-vga * RISC-V: documentation improvements and general code cleanups/fixes * s390: emulation support for the vector-enhancements facility * s390: support for gen16 CPU models * x86: new Intel CPU model versions with support for XSAVES instruction * x86: added ACPI based PCI hotplug support for Q35 machine (now the default) * x86: improvements to emulation of AMD virtualization extensions * and lots more... Thank you to everyone involved! [1] https://www.qemu.org/2021/08/19/tcg-cache-modelling-plugin/
