January 2026 monthly summary for OpenXiangShan/ready-to-run focusing on emulator integration improvements and build configurability. Driven by updating the NEMU reference to support the Smcntrpmf extension and by adding manual build configurations to enable reproducible testing across multiple riscv defconfigs, positioning the project for faster validation of Smcntrpmf-related changes and smoother releases.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-12 focusing on business value and technical achievements for OpenXiangShan/riscv-isa-sim. Highlights include a targeted vendor-id correction in CSR initialization and its impact on accuracy, compatibility, and downstream tooling.

April 2025 monthly summary for OpenXiangShan/ChiselAIA. Focused on correctness and stability of virtualization signaling in IMSIC, with a targeted bug fix to vgein comparison logic that underpins virtual guest enable signaling. Demonstrated disciplined code hygiene and collaboration around a critical hardware component, aligning with project reliability and virtualization security goals.

Month: 2024-04 — Delivered a targeted improvement to the RISC-V breakpoints workflow within the OpenXiangShan/riscv-isa-sim repository. The changes focused on enhancing trap handling and breakpoint debugging capabilities, laying foundations for more reliable breakpoint-driven debugging and trap semantics in the simulator.