ChangeLog/9.2

Release schedule: Planning/9.2.

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.

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

• gdbstub
  • Now support MTE in system mode (under TCG emulation)

HPPA

• Fix saving and restoring PSW V-Bit (division step) accross interrupts
• Fix linux-user emulation issues on 64-bit CPU

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

Migration

• Added QATZIP support for multifd compressors.

Build Information

Docker Tweaks

• Updated i686 and mipsel images to bookworm

Known issues

• See https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/14