ChangeLog/4.0: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:44, 14 December 2018

System emulation

Incompatible changes

New deprecated options and features

Consult the "Deprecated Features" appendix for the full list of historically deprecated features/options.

Alpha

68k

Arm

Allow AArch64 processors to boot from a kernel placed over 4GB into RAM
arm: Implement the ARMv8.1-HPD extension
arm: Implement the ARMv8.2-AA32HPD extension
arm: Implement the ARMv8.1-LOR extension (as the trivial "no limited ordering regions provided" minimum)

HPPA

Microblaze

MIPS

Nios2

OpenRISC

PowerPC

RISC-V

s390

vfio-ap now no longer inhibits usage of memory ballooners

SH

SPARC

TileGX

Tricore

x86

Xtensa

Device emulation and assignment

ACPI

Audio

Block devices

Graphics

Input devices

IPMI

Network devices

NVDIMM

PCI/PCIe

SCSI

SMBIOS

TPM

USB

VFIO

virtio

Xen

fw_cfg

9pfs

Audio

Character devices

Crypto subsystem

The block storage encryption backends are now capable of using multiple threads for encryption/decryption

GUI

Host support

Memory backends

Monitor

QMP can now execute a few commands "out of band". This is useful for postcopy recovery. For details, see docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt.

Migration

Network

Block devices and tools

Tracing

Miscellaneous

User-mode emulation

TCG

Guest agent

Build Information

GIT submodules

Build Dependencies

QEMU now requires at least GCC version 4.8 or Clang version 3.4 (or Clang from Xcode 5.1) to be built

Known issues

see Planning/4.0

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 === Arm ===
+* Allow AArch64 processors to boot from a kernel placed over 4GB into RAM
+* arm: Implement the ARMv8.1-HPD extension
+* arm: Implement the ARMv8.2-AA32HPD extension
+* arm: Implement the ARMv8.1-LOR extension (as the trivial "no limited ordering regions provided" minimum)
 === HPPA ===