https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/16/qemu_3_0_0/

The QEMU machine emulator and virtualizer has decided the time is right to give the world version 3.0 and seems also to have acted on a vow to qlean up its qode.

QEMU maintainer Michael Roth last week took to the Qemu-devel list with news that release candidate zero of QEMU version 3.0.0 had arrived.