Folks, With all the new features that have been integrated into the project recently, now is a great time to upgrade our version number to advertise this progress. Xen 3.0 was released back in December 2005, and in the intervening two and a half years we''ve: * made six further major releases; * made a number of minor releases on the 3.1 and 3.2 stable branches; * committed over 10,000 changesets to the public source repositories (more than contained in all releases up to Xen 3.0, combined!) The following is a sample of the major features integrated since Xen 3.0: * Support for AMD''s SVM virtualisation extensions. * A new easy-to-use CPU scheduler with automatic SMP load balancing * Xenoprofile: oprofile support for Xen systems * Packet segmentation offload in the network drivers * Dynamic-allocation and copy-on-write disks (blktap/qcow) * kexec/kdump support for Xen and domain 0 * Paravirtualised framebuffer drivers * XenAPI * HVM save/restore/migrate * HVM memory ballooning * Support for 32-bit x86 guests on 64-bit hypervisor * Xen Security Modules (XSM) * ACPI S3 suspend-to-RAM support for the host system * PCI pass-through support (with appropriate Intel/AMD hardware) * Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests With all this in mind, I will be changing the version number in the xen-unstable repository to 4.0.0 for the next release candidate (rc3). Comments and opinions are welcome! Regards, Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel