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** the virt board now has an SMMU capable of two-stage translation | ** the virt board now has an SMMU capable of two-stage translation | ||
** xilinx-zynq-a9 now enables the Security Extensions on the CPU | ** xilinx-zynq-a9 now enables the Security Extensions on the CPU | ||
* KVM-based VMs can now support MTE (if the host CPU has MTE support) | |||
* gdbstub | * gdbstub | ||
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* Some older machine types which were deprecated in the 9.0 release have now been removed: akita, borzoi, cheetah, connex, mainstone, n800, n810, spitz, terrier, tosa, verdex, z2 | * Some older machine types which were deprecated in the 9.0 release have now been removed: akita, borzoi, cheetah, connex, mainstone, n800, n810, spitz, terrier, tosa, verdex, z2 | ||
* when QEMU is built with the experimental Rust feature, an alternative PL011 implementation in Rust is selected by default. It is not migrateable and not recommended for actual use. | * when QEMU is built with the experimental Rust feature, an alternative PL011 implementation in Rust is selected by default. It is not migrateable and not recommended for actual use. | ||
=== AVR === | === AVR === | ||
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=== Microblaze === | === Microblaze === | ||
* debian-microblaze-cross has been patched to fix atomic generation | |||
=== MIPS === | === MIPS === | ||
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==== Graphics ==== | ==== Graphics ==== | ||
* virtio-gpu now support venus encapsulation for vulkan (need recent virglrenderer on host and mesa on guest) | |||
==== Hyper-V ==== | ==== Hyper-V ==== | ||
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=== GDBStub === | === GDBStub === | ||
* fixed a bug that broke aarch64_be-linux-user | |||
=== TCG Plugins === | === TCG Plugins === | ||
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* New memory API for reading vaddr | * New memory API for reading vaddr | ||
* Added basic block vector plugin | * Added basic block vector plugin | ||
* fixed a race condition which can hit uninstalling plugins | |||
=== Host support === | === Host support === | ||
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=== arm/arm64/aarch64 === | === arm/arm64/aarch64 === | ||
* aarch64_be-linux-user now has a test case | |||
=== LoongArch === | === LoongArch === | ||
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=== Testing and CI === | === Testing and CI === | ||
* very basic testing was added for aarch64_be-linux-user | |||
== Known issues == | == Known issues == | ||
* See https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/14 | * See https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/14 |
Latest revision as of 17:26, 31 October 2024
Release schedule: Planning/9.2.
System emulation
Removed features and incompatible changes
- The -rotate and -portrait options were only useful with PXA2xx machines, which have all now been removed. These command line options have therefore also been removed.
Consult the 'Removed features' page for details of suggested replacement functionality.
New deprecated options and features
Consult the "Deprecated Features" chapter of the QEMU System Emulation User's Guide for further details of the deprecations and their suggested replacements.
68k
Alpha
Arm
- New CPU architectural features emulated:
- FEAT_EBF16
- Changes to existing board models:
- sbsa-ref now has an SMMU capable of two-stage translation
- the virt board now has an SMMU capable of two-stage translation
- xilinx-zynq-a9 now enables the Security Extensions on the CPU
- KVM-based VMs can now support MTE (if the host CPU has MTE support)
- gdbstub
- Now support MTE in system mode (under TCG emulation)
- The hvf accelerator now supports creating VMs with larger than 36 bit address space (and thus 64GB or more of RAM), when the host is macos 15 or newer and the host CPU supports it
- Some older machine types which were deprecated in the 9.0 release have now been removed: akita, borzoi, cheetah, connex, mainstone, n800, n810, spitz, terrier, tosa, verdex, z2
- when QEMU is built with the experimental Rust feature, an alternative PL011 implementation in Rust is selected by default. It is not migrateable and not recommended for actual use.
AVR
CRIS
The CRIS target has been removed without replacement (The CRIS architecture was pulled from Linux in 4.17 and the compiler was no longer packaged in any distro making it hard to test this target).
Hexagon
HPPA
- Fix saving and restoring PSW V-Bit (division step) accross interrupts
- Fix linux-user emulation issues on 64-bit CPU
LoongArch
Microblaze
- debian-microblaze-cross has been patched to fix atomic generation
MIPS
- Fix for booting the jazz machine with the -nic ...,model=dp83932 option
Nios2
OpenRISC
PowerPC
Renesas RX
Renesas SH (sh4)
- The unmaintained "shix" machine has been removed
- The big endian system emulation ("qemu-system-sh4eb") has been disabled since there was no usable machine left for this target
RISC-V
ISA and Extensions
- Add a property to set vl to ceil(AVL/2)
- Add 'fcsr' register to QEMU log as a part of F extension
- Add preliminary textra trigger CSR functions
- Add Svvptc extension support
- Fix masking of rv32 physical address
Machines
- Enable Bit Manip for OpenTitan Ibex CPU
- Fix the group bit setting of AIA with KVM
Fixes and Misc
- Consider MISA bit choice in implied rule
- Fix the za64rs priv spec requirements
- Stop timer with infinite timecmp
- Fix riscv64 build on musl libc
- RISC-V bsd-user support
- Fix linking problem with semihosting disabled
- Fix IMSIC interrupt state updates
s390x
SPARC
- Implement a single entry floating-point exception queue for sparc v7/v8. This fixes a hang on Solaris 7, which assumes the queue exists and is non-empty on entry to the exception handler.
Tricore
x86
TCG
Xtensa
Device emulation and assignment
ACPI / SMBIOS
Audio
Block devices
Graphics
- virtio-gpu now support venus encapsulation for vulkan (need recent virglrenderer on host and mesa on guest)
Hyper-V
I2C
Input devices
IPMI
Multi-process QEMU
Network devices
NVDIMM
NVMe
PCI/PCIe
SCSI
SD card
SMBIOS
TPM
UFS
USB
VFIO
virtio
- virtio-mem now supports suspend/resume on x86-64.
vDPA
Xen
fw_cfg
9pfs
- "proxy" filesystem backend driver has been removed, use "local" filesystem backend driver instead.
virtiofs
Semihosting
Audio
Character devices
- socket: introduce 'reconnect-ms' and deprecate 'reconnect'
- pty: add "path" option, create a symbolic to the given path that points to the allocated PTY
Crypto subsystem
- The glib crypto backend now supports the SHA-384 hash
- A Linux bug that would cause the PBKDF code that estimates iterations to sometimes hang has been worked around by running in a new throwaway thread
- IOtests expected output has been fixed for recent gnutls changes
- Error reporting has been improved for unsupported cipher modes
- Memory leak fixed when dealing with unsupported cipher modes
Authorization subsystem
GUI
- allocate shareable display memory on Unix
- -display dbus now provides a Unix.Map interface, to share the display memory with the client
- fix -display dbus discarding cursor updates
- Fix handling of SASL authentication for VNC servers running on UNIX sockets
- Terminate the VNC connection immediately if no SASL authentication mechanisms are available
GDBStub
- fixed a bug that broke aarch64_be-linux-user
TCG Plugins
- Deprecated for TCI backend
- Deprecated for 32 bit hosts
- Extended the memory API to provide the value used
- Fixed a timer deadlock if time doesn't change
- Fixed a bug in IPS plugin to avoid not changing time
- Added cflow plugin
- New memory API for reading vaddr
- Added basic block vector plugin
- fixed a race condition which can hit uninstalling plugins
Host support
Memory backends
Migration
- Added QATZIP support for multifd compressors.
- Fixed one multifd race condition crash (against received bitmap).
- Non-deterministic EADDRINUSE problems initiating migration connections on OpenBSD have been fixed
Monitor
QMP
HMP
Network
Block device backends and tools
Tracing
Semihosting
Miscellaneous
User-mode emulation
runtime
binfmt_misc
alpha
arm/arm64/aarch64
- aarch64_be-linux-user now has a test case
LoongArch
HPPA
s390
x86
TCG
LoongArch
Record/Replay
RISC-V
- Supoort the RVV-1.0 extension to support vector operations on the host.
Guest agent
Build Information
Rust usage
Support for device models written in the Rust programming language has been added. It is considered experimental and not stable, and it is not recommended to be used for anything other than development. It is disabled by default and can be enabled by passing the flag --enable-rust
to the configure
script.
Future version of QEMU will require a Rust compiler and the bindgen tool to be installed. Right now the requirement is to have rustc of at least version 1.63.0 and bindgen of at least version 0.60.0. Compiling QEMU in distros with older version will require installing newer versions of the compiler (via rustup) and bindgen tool (via cargo install).
Adjustments to the minimum supported version of Rust and bindgen will be made according to QEMU's supported platform policy.
Configuration
- The gitlab-runner ansible script has been updated
Host support
Docker Tweaks
- Updated i686 and mipsel images to bookworm
Windows
Testing and CI
- very basic testing was added for aarch64_be-linux-user