Hello, On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 7.0.0 release. This release contains 2500+ commits from 225 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/7.0 Highlights include: * ACPI: support for logging guest events via ACPI ERST interface * virtiofs: improved security label support * block: improved flexibility for fleecing backups, including support for non-qcow2 images * ARM: 'virt' board support for virtio-mem-pci, specifying guest CPU topology, and enabling PAuth when using KVM/hvf * ARM: 'xlnx-versal-virt' board support for PMC SLCR and emulating the OSPI flash memory controller * ARM: 'xlnx-zynqmp' now models the CRF and APU control * HPPA: support for up to 16 vCPUs, improved graphics driver for HP-UX VDE/CDE environments, setting SCSI boot order, and a number of other new features * OpenRISC: 'sim' board support for up to 4 cores, loading an external initrd image, and automatically generating a device tree for the boot kernel * PowerPC: 'pseries' emulation support for running guests as a nested KVM hypervisor, and new support for spapr-nvdimm device * PowerPC: 'powernv' emulation improvements for XIVE and PHB 3/4, and new support for XIVE2 and PHB5 * RISC-V: support for KVM * RISC-V: support for ratified 1.0 Vector extension, as well as Zve64f, Zve32f, Zfhmin, Zfh, zfinx, zdinx, and zhinx{min} extensions. * RISC-V: 'spike' machine support for OpenSBI binary loading * RISC-V: 'virt' machine support for 32 cores, and AIA support. * s390x: support for "Miscellaneous-Instruction-Extensions Facility 3" (a z15 extension) * x86: Support for Intel AMX * and lots more... Thank you to everyone involved!