ChangeLog/3.1

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System emulation

Incompatible changes

  • The "tls", "x509", and "x509verify" options to "-vnc" have been removed. The "tls-creds" option should be used instead to point to a "tls-creds-x509" object created using "-object"

New deprecated options and features

Consult the "Deprecated Features" appendix for the full list of historically deprecated features/options.

Alpha

68k

Arm

HPPA

Microblaze

MIPS

Nios2

OpenRISC

PowerPC

RISC-V

s390

SH

SPARC

TileGX

Tricore

x86

Xtensa

Device emulation and assignment

ACPI

Audio

Block devices

Graphics

Input devices

IPMI

Network devices

NVDIMM

PCI/PCIe

SCSI

SMBIOS

TPM

USB

VFIO

virtio

Xen

fw_cfg

9pfs

Audio

Character devices

Crypto subsystem

  • The XTS cipher mode performance has been approximately doubled

GUI

Host support

Memory backends

Monitor

Migration

Network

Block devices and tools

Tracing

Miscellaneous

User-mode emulation

TCG

Guest agent

Build Information

Build Dependencies

  • Support for the GTK2 display frontend has been removed. GTK3 should be used instead
  • The minimum GTK3 version is now 3.14.0
  • The minimum GNUTLS version is now 3.1.18
  • The minimum libgcrypt version is now 1.5.0
  • The minimum nettle version is now 2.7.1

Known issues