[ANNOUNCE] QEMU 7.0.0 is now available

[Michael Roth]

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!