Re: [qemu-web PATCH] Add QEMU 8.2.0 release announcement

[Michael Roth]

Quoting Stefan Hajnoczi (2023-12-20 10:02:37)
> Cc: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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> +layout: post
> +title:  "QEMU version 8.3.0 released"

8.2? :)

> +date:   2023-12-20 10:00:00 -0600
> +categories: [releases, 'qemu 8.2']
> +---
> +We'd like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.2.0 release. This 
> release contains 3200+ commits from 231 authors.
> +
> +You can grab the tarball from our [download 
> page](https://www.qemu.org/download/#source). The full list of changes are 
> available [in the changelog](https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/8.2).
> +
> +Highlights include:
> +
> + * Arm: New CPU types cortex-a710 and neoverse-n2
> + * RISC-V: KVM AIA Support, Virtual IRQs and IRQ filtering support, and 
> vector cryptographic instruction set support
> + * 68k: The Macintosh Quadra 800 (q800) emulation now can boot MacOS 
> 7.1-8.1, A/UX 3.0.1, NetBSD 9.3, and Linux
> + * HPPA: New HP C3700 machine emulation and 64-bit PA-RISC 2.0 CPU emulation
> + * LoongArch: New CPU type la132 (LoongArch32)
> + * Tricore: New CPU type TC37x (ISA v1.6.2)
> + * New virtio-sound device emulation
> + * New virtio-gpu rutabaga device emulation used by Android emulator
> + * New hv-balloon for dynamic memory protocol device for Hyper-V guests
> + * New Universal Flash Storage device emulation
> + * New Xen PV console and network device emulation
> + * Network Block Device (NBD) 64-bit offsets for improved performance
> + * dump-guest-memory now supports the standard kdump format
> + * and lots more...
> +
> +Thank you to everybody who contributed to this release, whether that was by 
> writing code, reporting bugs, improving documentation, testing, or providing 
> the project with CI resources. We couldn't do these without you!

Thanks for writing this up. I ran out of time yesterday and am working
on the announcement email now. I'll plan to merge your summary into the
email and then push the resulting highlights to qemu-web if that sounds
okay to you.

-Mike

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