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.

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

Guest agent

• Support Windows 11 for guest-get-osinfo command
• Fix memory leaks in Windows guest-get-fsinfo command

Known issues

• see Planning/7.0