ChangeLog/8.2

System emulation

Removed features and 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

Xilinx Versal board now models the CFU/CFI
New CPU type: cortex-a710
New architectural features now emulated:
- FEAT_PACQARMA3
- FEAT_EPAC
- FEAT_Pauth2
- FEAT_FPAC
- FEAT_FPACCOMBINE
- FEAT_TIDCP1

AVR

Hexagon

HPPA

LoongArch

Microblaze

MIPS

Nios2

OpenRISC

PowerPC

Renesas RX

Renesas SH

RISC-V

ISA and Extensions

Machines

Fixes and Misc

s390x

SPARC

Tricore

x86

TCG

Xtensa

Device emulation and assignment

ACPI / SMBIOS

Audio

Block devices

Parallels Format Driver

Improved 'qemu-img check' facility
- Recover from broken data_off in the header
- Drop clusters outside of the image file
- De-duplicate clusters located on the same offset in the host file
Introduced ability to execute check automatically (if disk image is opened in read/write mode) if corruption is detected by open

Graphics

I2C

Input devices

IPMI

Multi-process QEMU

Network devices

NVDIMM

NVMe

PCI/PCIe

SCSI

SD card

SMBIOS

TPM

USB

VFIO

virtio

vDPA

Xen

fw_cfg

9pfs

virtiofs

Semihosting

Audio

Character devices

Crypto subsystem

Authorization subsystem

GUI

GDBStub

fixes cases where wrong threads were reported to gdb

TCG Plugins

Host support

Memory backends

Migration

Monitor

QMP

HMP

Network

Block device backends and tools

Tracing

Semihosting

Miscellaneous

User-mode emulation

runtime

binfmt_misc

armhf

Hexagon

LoongArch

Nios2

HPPA

s390

x86

Xtensa

TCG backends

RISC-V

Guest agent

Build Information

Coding style has been updated to allow loop variables

Build Dependencies

Building QEMU now requires Python 3.8. As a consequence, building on Debian 10 is not supported anymore (unless a newer version of Python is installed by other means).
Building QEMU now uses the tomli library if Python is older than version 3.11. However, version 2.0.1 is bundled in case tomli is not installed on the host.