Xen 4.1.2 and 4.0.3 released

Lars Kurth

Lars Kurth

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The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of the Xen releases 4.1.2 and 4.0.3 from the active stable branches. Note that these are source releases.
Fixes/features include:

  • New XL toolstack
  • Debug support: kexec/kdump
  • Remus (High Availability)
  • Device passthrough to HVM guests
  • Interrupt handling
  • Support for Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (SMEP)

Source distributions can be downloaded for Xen 4.1.2 and Xen 4.0.3.
These releases are tagged in the mercurial repositories at

Thank you to the developers who have contributed to the releases. Developers who conbibuted more than 1% of changesets to these releases: Keir Fraser (26.0%), Ian Campbell (18.6%), Jan Beulich (9.3%), Ian Jackson (6.4%), Tim Deegan (6.0%), Olaf Hering (4.8%), Stefano Stabellini (3.0%), Christoph Egger (2.0%), Gianni Tedesco (1.6%), Juergen Gross (1.5%), George Dunlap (1.5%), Liu Jinsong (1.3%), Eddie Dong (1.1%), Anthony Perard (1.0%) and Andrew Cooper (1.0%).

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