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KVM sees about 1,400 commits from Oct 2020 to Sep 2021 with ~10% stable fixes and adds >10,000 lines of self-tests; x86 and ARM lead work. New page‑table MMU lands and is enabled by default in 5.15, a binary statistics API appears, and protected KVM gains stage‑2 page tables, host‑donated memory, per‑page owners and guest memory isolation; TDX and AMD SEV‑SNP support are in progress. Kata Containers ships 2.0: Kata agent rewritten in Rust (<1MB), virtiofs default, q35/qemu default and Firecracker/cloud‑hypervisor support, plus confidential‑computing integration.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:20October 2020 - September 2021
3. 0:57Commits in each release
4. 1:13Commits in each group of 5 releases
5. 1:45Commits by architecture since 5.10
6. 1:58Highlights: all architectures
7. 3:33x86: Confidential VMs
8. 4:18x86: Nested virtualization
9. 5:12x86: Miscellaneous
10. 5:53ARM: Protected KVM
11. 9:08What's next?
12. 11:30Kata Containers Open Source, Open Design Open Development, Open Community
13. 19:22Kata 2.x improvements, updates

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