Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'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 here: https://www.qemu.org/download/#source The full list of changes are available at: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/7.2 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!
