On August 11, 2026, QEMU 11.1 shipped with more than 3,200 commits: UFS 4.1 Write Booster emulation, the RISC-V Zvfbfa extension, big-endian support, and new Arm CPU features. For teams virtualizing storage or embedded architectures, it is an upgrade worth planning.

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