[Pkg-xen-devel] [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.2 released!

Mike Viau viaum at sheridanc.on.ca
Mon Sep 17 17:33:42 UTC 2012


> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:40:02 +0300 <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Keir Fraser <keir at xen.org> -----
> 
> From: Keir Fraser <keir at xen.org>
> To: xen-devel at lists.xen.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:34:00 +0100
> Subject: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.2 released!
> 
> The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.

4.2-rc3 is already in the experimental distribution of Debian [1]. It can only be assumed that these release will be uploaded as well. 

Is there any chance the next upload can be slated for sid/unstable instead?

> 
> The result of *18 months* of development, new features include:
>  * Paging/sharing improvements for high-density VM environments (eg. VDI)
>  * Enhancements to PV-HVM guest performance
>  * Improved memaccess (guest introspection) support
>  * EFI boot support, replacing the legacy BIOS boot environment
>  * Improved RAS support
>  * XL as the default toolstack; XEND officially deprecated
>  * Upstream QEMU support, with its up-to-date feature list
> 
> Detailed release notes, including a more extensive feature list:
>   http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_Release_Notes
> 
> To download tarballs:
>   http://xen.org/download/index_4.2.0.html
> Or the Mercurial source repository (tag 'RELEASE-4.2.0'):
>   http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.2-testing.hg
> 
> And the announcement on the Xen blog:
>   http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/09/17/xen-4-2-0-released/
> 
> Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this release!
> 
>  Regards,
>  The Xen Team
> 
> 
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> ----- End forwarded message -----

[1] - http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xen/xen_4.2.0~rc3-1/changelog

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