This release has been tracked in our roadmap
project as iteration
v42.0. The following user visible changes have been made:

SVE/SVE2 Support on AArch64

The SVE and SVE2 feature bits are now propagated through to the guest on
AArch64. (#6678, #6691)

Notable Bug Fixes

• Reduce latency notification when rate limited (virtio-devices: virtio-blk always tries signal used queue when receiving completion event #6672)
• Fix virtio-console resizing (vmm: fix console resizing #6704)
• Fix resizing when console uses TTY (vmm: fix resizing TTY consoles #6754)
• Avoid deadlock in PCI BAR reprogramming that can occur when adding a new
  virtio device to a VM that has been restored (deadlock between pci_resources and move_bar #6775)
• Fix console resizing after VM restore (Pass the newly created console resizer pipe during vm reboot #6748)
• Fix memory resize error due to incorrect bounds checks (vmm: memory_manager: Fix bound checks for memory hotplug #6736)

Sponsorships

During this release cycle a new VFIO CI worker has been provided by Crusoe
Energy and a new ARM64 CI worker has been provided by Ubicloud.

Contributors

Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to our release:

• Alexandru Matei [email protected]
• Alyssa Ross [email protected]
• Anirudh Rayabharam [email protected]
• BharatNarasimman [email protected]
• Bo Chen [email protected]
• Jinank Jain [email protected]
• Jonas Scholz [email protected]
• Nuno Das Neves [email protected]
• Praveen K Paladugu [email protected]
• Purna Pavan Chandra [email protected]
• Rob Bradford [email protected]
• Ruoqing He [email protected]
• Songqian Li [email protected]
• Tom Dohrmann [email protected]
• Wei Liu [email protected]
• Wenyu Huang [email protected]
• Yuhong Zhong [email protected]
• wuxinyue [email protected]