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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 at 11:18, Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Stefan Hajnoczi (2023-12-20 10:02:37)
> > Cc: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  _posts/2023-12-20-qemu-8-2-0.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 _posts/2023-12-20-qemu-8-2-0.md
> >
> > diff --git a/_posts/2023-12-20-qemu-8-2-0.md 
> > b/_posts/2023-12-20-qemu-8-2-0.md
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..c7cdd8b
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/_posts/2023-12-20-qemu-8-2-0.md
> > @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
> > +---
> > +layout: post
> > +title:  "QEMU version 8.3.0 released"
>
> 8.2? :)

Oops! Please touch it up when merging.

> > +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.

Yes, that would be great. Thanks!

Stefan