[Qemu-devel] ANNOUNCE: Release 0.11.0 of QEMU

[Anthony Liguori]

The QEMU team is pleased to announce the availability of the 0.11.0
release.  This is the result of almost 1400 changesets from over 90 
contributors.  In six months, we've had over 80k lines of code added and 
over 40k lines of code removed.

It can be downloaded from Savannah at:

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.11.0.tar.gz

Below is a partial set of features added in the 0.11.0 release and the 
changes from 0.11.0-rc2 to 0.11.0.

On behalf of the QEMU team, I'd like to thank everyone who contributed 
to make this release happen!

0.11.0
  - configure refactoring (Juan Quintela)
  - qdev device model (Paul Brook, Gerd Hoffman, et al)
  - qemu-io (Christoph Hellwig, Kevin Wolf)
  - i386: multiboot support for -kernel (Alex Graf)
  - gdbstub: vCont support (Jan Kiszka)
  - i386: control over boot menu (Jan Kiszka)
  - i386: pc-0.10 compatibility machine type (Mark McLoughlin)
  - qcow2: use cache=writethrough by default (Kevin Wolf)
  - i386: MCE emulation (Huang Ying)
  - i386: host cpuid support (Andre Pzywara)
  - slirp: host network config (Jan Kiszka)
  - virtio: MSI-x support (Michael Tsirkin)
  - pci: allow devices to specify bus address (Markus Armbruster)
  - migration: allow down time based threshold (Glauber Costa)
  - virtio-net: filtering support (Alex Williamson)
  - http block device support (Alex Graf)
  - kvm: save/restore and reboot support (Jan Kiszka)
  - configure: remove --disable-gfx-check (Anthony Liguori)
  - arm: Syborg board emulation (Paul Brook)
  - xen: add pv guest support (Gerd Hoffman)
  - i386: expose numa topology to guests (Andre Przywara)
  - remove phys_ram_base (Paul Brook)
  - native preadv/pwritev support (Christoph Hellwig)
  - kvm: guest debugging support (Jan Kiszka)
  - vnc: support for acls and gssapi (Dan Berrange)
  - monitor: allow multiple monitors (Jan Kiszka)

0.11.0-rc2 -> 0.11.0
  - fix rtc polling mode (Bernhard Kauer)
  - qcow2: order concurrent aio requests (Kevin Wolf)
  - qemu-io: port to win32 (Stefan Weil)
  - alpha: fix extlh instruction (Vince Weaver)
  - tcg: fix size of local variables in tcg_gen_bswap64_i64 (Stefan Weil)
  - net: fix send ordering (Jan Kiszka)
  - escc: fix IRQ routing (Aurelien Jarno)
  - versatile: fix Linux task preemption (Aurelien Jarno)
  - curses: reduce memory usage by 250MB (Aurelien Jarno)

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori