Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] Add a blog post about the release of version 2.10.0

[Michael Roth]

Quoting Thomas Huth (2017-09-01 02:19:51)
> Using the contents of Micheal Roth's announce e-mail for this
> blog post.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <address@hidden>

> ---
>  _posts/2017-09-01-qemu-2-10-0.md | 56 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 56 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 _posts/2017-09-01-qemu-2-10-0.md
> 
> diff --git a/_posts/2017-09-01-qemu-2-10-0.md 
> b/_posts/2017-09-01-qemu-2-10-0.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..adb1c89
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/_posts/2017-09-01-qemu-2-10-0.md
> @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
> +---
> +layout: post
> +title:  "QEMU version 2.10.0 released"
> +date:   2017-09-01 09:00:00 +0200
> +categories: [releases, 'qemu 2.10']
> +---
> +You can grab the tarball from our
> +[download 
> page](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.qemu.org_download_-23source&d=DwIBAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=sThPI1c0u5x-3sg5Nw8wNqjg_5Z5xLzfPGC18E94zn8&m=PzYq08tHQcj1sxM1OMOnDI306yhwZlucN-ByJd6q8sQ&s=Yn7ZBayq012yWE5e70RVWA0QPziEmlje04XHMnXJIqY&e=
>  ).
> +The full list of changes are available
> +[in the 
> Wiki](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__wiki.qemu.org_ChangeLog_2.10&d=DwIBAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=sThPI1c0u5x-3sg5Nw8wNqjg_5Z5xLzfPGC18E94zn8&m=PzYq08tHQcj1sxM1OMOnDI306yhwZlucN-ByJd6q8sQ&s=k3QQu7lpwfgWOAF3Z0IB57eLKY8MiRYxIYxikNaGgrg&e=
>  ).
> +
> +Highlights include:
> + * Support for ACPI NUMA distance info and control over CPU NUMA
> +   assignments via '-numa cpu' parameters
> + * Support for LUKS encryption format in qcow2 images
> + * Monitor/Management interface improvments: additional debug
> +   information available through 'info ramblock/cmma/register/qtree',
> +   support for viewing connected clients via 'info vnc', improved
> +   parsing support for QMP protocol, and other additional commands
> + * QXL and virtio-gpu support for controlling default display resolution
> + * Support for vhost-user-scsi devices
> + * NVMe emulation support for Write Zeroes command and Controller
> +   Memory Buffers
> + * Guest agent support for querying guest hostname, users, timezone, and
> +   OS version/release information
> + * ARM: KVM support for Raspberry Pi 3
> + * ARM: emulation support for MPS2/MPS2+ FPGA-based dev boards
> + * ARM: zynq: SPIPS flash support
> + * ARM: exynos4210: hardware PRNG device, SDHCI, and system poweroff
> + * Microblaze: support for CPU versions 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, and 10.0
> + * MIPS: support for Enhanced Virtual Addressing (EVA)
> + * MIPS: initrd support for kaslr-enabled kernels
> + * OpenRISC: support for shadow registers, idle states, and
> +   numcores/coreid/EVAR/EPH registers
> + * PowerPC: Multi-threaded TCG emulation support
> + * PowerPC: OpenBIOS VGA driver for MacOS guests
> + * PowerPC: pseries: KVM and emulation support for POWER9 guests
> + * PowerPC: pseries: support for hash page table resizing
> + * s390: channel device passthrough support via vfio-ccw
> + * s390: support for channel-attached 3270 "green screen" devices for
> +   use as guest consoles or additional TTYs
> + * s390: improved support for PCI (AEN, AIS, and zPCI)
> + * s390: support for z14 CPU models and netboot/TFTP via CCW BIOS, 
> + * s390: TCG support for atomic "LOAD AND x" and "COMPARE SWAP"
> +   operations, LOAD PROGRAM PARAMETER, extended facilities, CPU type,
> +   and many more less-common instructions.
> + * SH: TCG support for host atomic instructions for emulating tas.b and
> +   gUSA (user-space atomics), and support for fpchg/fsrra instructions
> + * SPARC: fixes for booting Solaris 2.6 on sun4m/OpenBIOS machines
> + * x86: Q35 MCH supports TSEG higher than 8MB
> + * x86: SSE register access via gdbstub
> + * Xen: support for multi-page shared rings, and 9pfs/virtfs backend
> + * Xtensa: sim machine console can be directed to chardev via -serial
> + * and lots more...
> +
> +Thank you to everyone involved!
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