This release has been tracked in our new roadmap project as iteration v28.0.
Community Engagement (Reminder)
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Hypervisor development.
Long Term Support (LTS) Release
This is the first version of Cloud Hypervisor to be released under the LTS release process. Point releases for bug fixes will be made for the next 18 months; live migration and live upgrade will be supported between the point releases of the LTS.
Virtualised TPM Support
Support for adding an emulated CRB TPM has been added. This has it's own TPM documentation.
Transparent Huge Page Support
By default, but controllable through --memory thp=off if it possible to back the guest memory with Transparent Huge Pages (no file backing/shared=off) then this will be used resulting in improved boot performance.
README Quick Start Improved
The README has been refreshed with the quick start guide updated to reflect the different firmware options and to recommend the use of pre-built binaries.
Notable Bug Fixes
- Inappropriate Copy-on-Write of pinned pages (e.g. VFIO) leading to higher
memory consumption (#4835) - Multiple
virtiodevice bug fixes found through fuzzing (#4859, #4799) - Large QCOW files (> 4TiB) are now supported (#4767)
- Support for > 31 vCPUS on aarch64 (#4863)
- Multiple fixes to OpenAPI specification file (#4720, #4811)
- Programming of the MSI-X table has been optimised leading to faster boot on
newer Linux kernels (#4744) - Error on reboot from race to close TAP devices (#4871)
- Non-spec compliant virtio-block read-only support (#4888)
Removals
The following functionality has been removed:
- Support for non-PVH firmware booting has been removed (#4511)
- I/O ports used for older versions of firmware have been removed (#3926)
- Deprecated API options for kernel/cmdline/initramfs have been removed (#4737)
Contributors
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to our release:
- Anatol Belski anbelski@linux.microsoft.com
- Bo Chen chen.bo@intel.com
- Fabiano Fidêncio fabiano.fidencio@intel.com
- Jianyong Wu jianyong.wu@arm.com
- Jinank Jain jinankjain@microsoft.com
- Jinrong Liang cloudliang@tencent.com
- lv.mengzhao lv.mengzhao@zte.com.cn
- Michael Zhao michael.zhao@arm.com
- Muminul Islam muislam@microsoft.com
- Praveen K Paladugu prapal@linux.microsoft.com
- Rob Bradford robert.bradford@intel.com
- Sebastien Boeuf sebastien.boeuf@intel.com
- Wei Liu liuwe@microsoft.com