QEMU 2.2 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

QEMU 2.2 is near with a plan to release at the beginning of December while QEMU 2.2.0 RC1 was released yesterday.

QEMU 2.2 features ARM/MIPS/PowerPC/pSeries/Freescale/S390/SPARC support improvements, a new TriCore target, support for AVX512 emulation on x86 systems, IOMMU/VT-d emulation for the Q35 machine type, support for booting a bzImage or multi-boot kernel under Xen, SCSI improvements, support for USB 2.0 high-speed mice and keyboards, hot-plugging support for XHCI/EHCI/UHCI controllers, Samba 4.1 network support, and many other changes. More changes are listed on the QEMU Wiki.

Yesterday's QEMU 2.2.0-rc1 release features many fixes over the 2.2.0-rc0 release from last week. The 2.2 RC1 announcement can be read on the QEMU mailing list.

The plan from here is to do a second and third release candidates over the next two weeks and to hopefully release QEMU 2.2.0 on 3 December.