[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 3.1.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
the QEMU 3.1.0 release. This release contains 1900+ commits from 189
authors.

You can grab the tarball from our download page here:

  https://www.qemu.org/download/#source

The full list of changes are available at:

  https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/3.1

Highlights include:

 * ARM: emulation support for microbit and Xilinx Versal machine models
 * ARM: support for ARMv6M architecture and Cortex-M0 CPU model
 * ARM: support for Cortex-A72 CPU model
 * ARM: virt/xlnx-zynqmp: virtualization extensions for GICv2 interrupt
   controller
 * ARM: emulation of AArch32 virtualization/hypervisor mode now supported
   for Cortex-A7 and Corex-A15
 * MIPS: emulation support for nanoMIPS I7200
 * MIPS: emulation support for MXU SIMD instructions for MIPS32
 * PowerPC: pseries: enablement of nested virtualization via KVM-HV
 * PowerPC: prep: deprecated in favor of 40p machine model
 * Powerpc: 40p: IRQ routing fixes, switch from Open HackWare to OpenBIOS
 * PowerPC: g3beige/mac99: support for booting from virtio-blk-pci
 * s390: VFIO passthrough support for crypto devices (vfio-ap)
 * s390: KVM support for backing guests with huge pages
 * SPARC: sun4u: support for booting from virtio-blk-pci
 * x86: multi-threaded TCG support
 * x86: KVM support for Enlightened VMCS (improved perf for Hyper-V on KVM)
 * x86: KVM support for Hyper-V IPI enlightenments
 * Xtensa: support for input from chardev consoles

 * Support for AMD IOMMU interrupt remapping and guest virtual APIC mode
 * XTS cipher mode is now ~2x faster
 * stdvga and bocks-display devices can expose EDID information to guest,
   (for use with xres/yres resolution options)
 * qemu-img tool can now generate LUKS-encrypted files through 'convert' command

 * and lots more...

Thank you to everyone involved!