Download Xen 4.9.0

Xen is a baremetal hypervisor for the x86 and ARMv7/v8 platforms, allowing multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on a single system without drastically impacting performance. For more information about Xen and its community, please refer to this one and this one page. Currently, only Linux, NetBSD, and FreeBSD are supported as host systems, but work is underway to fully support other operating systems as well. The developers have finally released version 4.9.0 after nine release candidates, with the following announcement:

Xen 4.9.0 has been released

Dear community members,

I’m pleased to announce that Xen 4.9.0 has been released.

Please find the tarball and its signature at:

You can also check out the tag in xen.git:
RELEASE-4.9.0

Git checkout and build instructions can be found at:
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.9_Release_Notes#Build_Requirements

Release notes can be found at:
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.9_Release_Notes

A summary for 4.9 release documents can be found at:
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:Xen_4.9

Technical blog post for 4.9 can be found at:
https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/06/28/whats-new-in-the-xen-project-hypervisor-4-9/

Thanks everyone who contributed to this release. This release would not have happened without all the awesome contributions from around the globe.

bye,
Julien Grall (on behalf of the Xen Project Hypervisor team)