We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 11.1.0 release. This release contains 3200+ commits from 285 authors.

You can grab the tarball from our download page. The full list of changes are available in the changelog.

Highlights include:

• Universal Flash Storage (UFS) emulation support for Write Booster (device-level caching) and Host-Initiated Defragmentation (HID) based on UFS 4.1 specification
• vhost-host-user support for offloading real-time clock handling from the hypervisor when using virtio-rtc
• GUI: improvements to virtual console handling/specifying of different character encoding and GTK/VNC improvements as well
• ARM: support for new architectural CPU features (too many to list here, see full changelog)
• ARM: support for new imx8mp-evk machine type (based on i.MX 8MM Evaluation kit)
• ARM: ‘virt’ board support for specifying cache topology, ‘hvf’ accelerator now supports nested virtualization and vGIC
• HPPA: updated to SeaBIOS-hppa v25 firmware, TLB insert fixes for HP-UX 9
• PowerPC: MPIPL support for PowerNV to preserve memory after an unexpected reset, as well as support for emulating a nest MMU
• RISC-V: ISA exstention support for big-endian, Zbr/xbr0p93, Zvfbfa, fractional LMUL on vector SHA instructions, KVM support for Zicbop and BFloat16 extensions, and more
• RISC-V: new board support for K230, support for Tenstorrent mvendorid, and other misc. fixes/features
• s390x: KVM support for ASTFLE facility 2 (for nested)
• 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!

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