[fedora-virt] [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.2 released!

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

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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.

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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