QEMU version 8.0.0 released
20 Apr 2023
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 238 authors.
You can grab the tarball from our download page. The full list of changes are available in the changelog.
Highlights include:
- ARM: emulation support for FEAT_EVT, FEAT_FGT, and AArch32 ARMv8-R
- ARM: CPU emulation for Cortex-A55 and Cortex-R52, and new Olimex STM32 H405 machine type
- ARM: gdbstub support for M-profile system registers
- HPPA: fid (Floating-Point Identify) instruction support and 32-bit emulation improvements
- RISC-V: additional ISA and Extension support for smstateen, native debug icount trigger, cache-related PMU events in virtual mode, Zawrs/Svadu/T-Head/Zicond extensions, and ACPI support
- RISC-V: updated machine support for OpenTitan, PolarFire, and OpenSBI
- RISC-V: wide ranges of fixes covering PMP propagation for TLB, mret exceptions, uncompressed instructions, and other emulation/virtualization improvements
- s390x: improved zPCI passthrough device handling
- s390x: support for asynchronous teardown of memory of secure KVM guests during reboot
- x86: support for Xen guests under KVM with Linux v5.12+
- x86: new SapphireRapids CPU model
- x86: TCG support for FSRM, FZRM, FSRS, and FSRC CPUID flags
- virtio-mem: support for using preallocation in conjunction with live migration
- VFIO: experimental migration support updated to v2 VFIO migration protocol
- qemu-nbd: improved efficient over TCP and when using TLS
- and lots more…
Thank you to everybody who contributed to this release, whether that was by writing code, reporting bugs, improving documentation, testing, or providing the project with CI resources. We couldn’t do these without you!