ChangeLog/7.0

System emulation

Incompatible changes

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

AVR

Hexagon

HPPA

Microblaze

MIPS

Nios2

OpenRISC

PowerPC

Renesas RX

Renesas SH

RISC-V

Add support for ratified 1.0 Vector extension
Drop support for draft 0.7.1 Vector extension
Support Zfhmin and Zfh extensions
Improve kernel loading for non-Linux platforms
Fix illegal instruction when PMP is disabled
SiFive PDMA 64-bit support
Mark Hypervisor extension as non experimental
Enable Hypervisor extension by default
Support 32 cores on the virt machine
Corrections for the Vector extension
Experimental support for 128-bit CPUs
stval and mtval support for illegal instructions

s390x

SPARC

Tricore

x86

KVM

x86_64

AMD SEV

Xtensa

Device emulation and assignment

ACPI

Audio

Block devices

Graphics

I2C

Input devices

IPMI

Multi-process QEMU

Network devices

NVDIMM

NVMe

Emulated NVMe Controller

PCI/PCIe

SCSI

SD card

SMBIOS

TPM

USB

VFIO

virtio

Xen

fw_cfg

9pfs

virtiofs

Semihosting

Audio

Character devices

Crypto subsystem

Authorization subsystem

GUI

GDBStub

TCG Plugins

Host support

Memory backends

Migration

Monitor

QMP

HMP

Network

Block device backends and tools

Tracing

Miscellaneous

User-mode emulation

binfmt_misc

Hexagon

TCG

Guest agent

Support Windows 11 for guest-get-osinfo command

Build Information

Python

GIT submodules

Container Based Builds

VM Based Builds

Build Dependencies

Windows

Testing and CI

Known issues

see Planning/7.0