The development of KVM has seen a rapid pace and with increasing adoption of the hypervisor also came increased pressure to publish a stable maintenance branch. Well today KVM maintainers have took the opportunity to not only release a test candidate for a maintenance branch but also to separate the userspace element from the kernel module. Users will be able to then pair the userspace releases with the corresponding kernel module releases. Mixing them will also be possible in most cases. The naming convention will be as follows:

• qemu-kvm-devel-xx for test userspace package. This will eventually become qemu-kvm-xx
• kvm-kmod-devel-xx for test kernel module package. This will eventually become kvm-kmod-xx
• Combined package will continue to be kvm-xx

The new test releases for the stable maintenance branch can be found at the following link:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~avi/kvm-85rc1/

The original announcement can be found here.

http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg11733.html