ChangeLog/8.1
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
Machines
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
Xtensa
Device emulation and assignment
ACPI / SMBIOS
Audio
Block devices
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
TCG Plugins
Host support
Memory backends
Migration
Monitor
QMP
HMP
Network
Block device backends and tools
Tracing
Semihosting
Miscellaneous
User-mode emulation
build
binfmt_misc
Hexagon
LoongArch
Nios2
HPPA
x86
Xtensa
TCG backends
ARM
Guest agent
Build Information
Build Dependencies
- Starting with QEMU 8.1, only Python 3.8 and newer will be supported (3.7 might work but it is not included in any of the environments that we run CI with).
Windows
Testing and CI
Known issues
- see Planning/8.1