ChangeLog/2.1
System emulation
Incompatible changes
Future incompatible changes
ARM
- Improvements to Allwinner SoC emulation.
- Much more complete support for AArch64.
Microblaze
- Support for u-boot initrd images.
Power
s390
SPARC
x86
- QEMU now presents version 0x14 for the emulated local APIC, for consistency with KVM and improved compatibility with Mac OS X.
- More faithful SMBus controller emulation.
- More faithful CPL (current privilege level) emulation in TCG mode.
KVM
Xen
Xtensa
Device emulation
SCSI
USB
- Support for file-sharing via MTP emulation
GUI
- Many bug fixes for the GTK+ interface.
- Mouse wheel support for the SDL 2.0 interface.
Monitor
Migration
- Many fixes to XBZRLE.
Network
Block devices in system emulation
Various
Block devices and tools
- Support for compressed (streamOptimized) VMDK images as conversion targets.
TCG
- Improvement to AArch64, Alpha, ia64 and SPARC backends
Tracing
User-mode emulation
- Support for opening /proc/self/exe.