Last weekend qemu maintainers published the latest stable release of qemu featuring mostly bugfixes. Qemu is the upstream project behind qemu-kvm and is the primary userspace application that makes use of kvm kernel driver. You can expect most of these changes to be folded into qemu-kvm relatively quickly and pushed to your favourite distro. The official changelog is listed below.

Changelog for Version 0.14.1

• virtio-blk: fail unaligned requests
• qed: Fix consistency check on 32-bit hosts
• exit if -drive specified is invalid instead of ignoring the "wrong" -drive
• vhost: fix dirty page handling
• Do not delete BlockDriverState when deleting the drive
• vnc: tight: Fix crash after 2GB of output
• lan9118: Ignore write to MAC_VLAN1 register
• Don't allow multiwrites against a block device without underlying medium
• lsi53c895a: add support for ABORT messages
• virtio-pci: fix bus master work around on load
• fix applesmc REV key
• rbd: don't link with -lcrypto
• net: Add the missing option declaration of "vhostforce"
• lsi53c895a: Update dnad when skipping MSGOUT bytes
• Revert "prep: Disable second IDE channel, as long as ISA IDE emulation doesn't support same irq for both channels"
• isa-bus: Remove bogus IRQ sharing check
• virtio-net: Fix lduw_p() pointer argument of wrong size
• hw/sd.c: Add missing state change for SD_STATUS, SEND_NUM_WR_BLOCKS
• vnc: Fix fatal crash with vnc reverse mode
• qemu-char: Check for missing backend name

You can download this latest release at the following link.

Download qemu-0.14.1.tar.gz