The full list of changes are available at: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.2
Highlights include:
virtio-gpu: support for 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications via
Venus Vulkan driver in the guest and virglrenderer host library
crypto: GLib crypto backend now supports SHA-384 hashes
migration: QATzip-accelerated compression support while using multiple
migration streams
Rust: experimental support for device models written in Rust (for
development use only)
ARM: emulation support for FEAT_EBF16, FEAT_CMOW architecture features
ARM: support for two-stage SMMU translation for sbsa-ref and virt boards
ARM: support for CPU Security Extensions for xilinx-zynq-a9 board
ARM: 64GB+ memory support when using HVF acceleration on newer Macs
HPPA: SeaBIOS-hppa v17 firmware with various fixes and enhancements
RISC-V: IOMMU support for virt machine
RISC-V: support for control flow integrity and Svvptc extensions, and
support for Bit-Manipulation extension on OpenTitan boards
RISC-V: improved performance for vector unit-stride/whole register
ld/st instructions
s390x: support for booting from other devices if the previous ones fail
x86: support for new nitro-enclave machine type that can emulate
AWS Nitro Enclave and can boot from Enclave Image Format files.
x86: KVM support for enabling AVX10, as well as enabling specific
AVX10 versions via command-line
and lots more...
Other changes:
Removed deprecated 'cris' support
Removed deprecated virtfs-proxy-helper
`--enable-rust` not addressed yet
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/qemu?expand=0&rev=872
only a temporary measure, that should be reverted as soon as
possible:
* Revert "ui/curses: Do not use console_select()" (bsc#1232712)
* Revert "hw/xen: Register framebuffer backend via xen_backend_init()" (bsc#1232712)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/qemu?expand=0&rev=870
