ChangeLog/10.1

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

AVR

Hexagon

HPPA

LoongArch

Microblaze

MIPS

OpenRISC

PowerPC

Renesas RX

Renesas SH (sh4)

RISC-V

ISA and Extensions

Machines

Fixes and Misc

s390x

SPARC

Tricore

x86

KVM

Xtensa

Device emulation and assignment

ACPI / SMBIOS

Audio

Block devices

Graphics

Hyper-V

I2C

Input devices

IPMI

Multi-process QEMU

Network devices

NVDIMM

NVMe

PCI/PCIe

SCSI

SD card

SMBIOS

TPM

UFS

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

signals

runtime

binfmt_misc

alpha

arm/arm64/aarch64

HPPA

LoongArch

PowerPC

s390

x86

TCG

LoongArch

Record/Replay

RISC-V

Guest agent

Documentation

Build Information

Process

Rust usage

The minimum supported version of Rust is now 1.77.

On Debian bookworm, it is available in the rustc-web package.
On Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, it is available in the rust-1.77 package; the RUSTC and RUSTDOC environment variables must point to /usr/bin/rustc-1.77 and /usr/bin/rustdoc-1.77 respectively.