QEMU releases

• Releases: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/releases
• https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog
• Blog: https://www.qemu.org/blog/

2020

• 5.2 12/2020 https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.2 (Ubuntu 21.04) announcement
• 5.1 XX/XXXX https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.1 announcement
  • ARM: virt: support for memory hot-unplug
• 5.0.0 April 2020 https://github.com/qemu/qemu/releases/tag/v5.0.0 https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.0, announcement
  • Support for passing host filesystem directory to guest via virtiofsd
  • The VNC server websocket impl has fixed compatibility with noVNC

2019

• 4.2.0 12/12/2019 announcement, Changelog
  • ARM: “virt” machine now supports memory hotplugging
  • x86: new “microvm” machine that uses virtio-mmio instead of PCI for use as baseline for performance optimizations
  • x86: macOS Hypervisor.framework support (“-accel hvf”) now considered stable
  • xtensa: new “virt” machine type
• 4.1.1 14/11/2019
• 4.1.0 https://www.qemu.org/2019/08/16/qemu-4-1-0/
• 4.0.1 18/12/2019 https://github.com/qemu/qemu/releases/tag/v4.0.1
• 4.0.0 24/03/2019 https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/
• 3.1.1.1 Oct 2019

2018

• 3.1.0 (Dec 2018)
• 3.0.0 (Aug 2018) https://www.qemu.org/2018/08/15/qemu-3-0-0/
• 2.12.1 (Aug 2018)
  • Support for AIX has been removed.
• 2.12.0 (Apr 2018) https://www.qemu.org/2018/04/24/qemu-2-12-0/
  • Support for directly interacting with userspace NVMe driver
  • ARM: initial support for Raspberry Pi 3 machine type
• 2.11.1 Feb 2018 https://github.com/qemu/qemu/releases/tag/v2.11.1 (Included in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

2017

• 2.10.1 announcemnt https://www.qemu.org/2017/10/04/qemu-2-10-1/

Other

• 2.2 https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.2
• qemu-nbd has a new --detect-zeroes option
• 2.1 https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.1

Related terms

• Libvirt release notes (virsh)

See also

• QEMU: qemu-img, qemu-ga, qemu.conf, virsh qemu, QEMU guest agent (qemu-ga), qcow2, qemu-nbd, qemu-img map, qemu-io, /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf, QEMU releases, VENOM, qemu-nbd --help, qemu-system
• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM
• Software changelogs, git log, GA, EoL, EOS, release cycle, apt changelog, docker-compose changelog