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1 version 0.9.1:
3 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
4 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
5 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
6 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
7 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
8 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
9 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
10 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
11 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
12 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
13 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
14 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
15 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
16 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
17 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
18 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
19 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
20 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
21 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
22 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
23 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
24 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
25 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
27 version 0.9.0:
29 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
30 - Async file I/O API
31 - New qcow2 disk image format
32 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
33 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
34 - SMM support
35 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
36 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
37 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
38 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
39 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
40 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
41 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
42 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
43 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
45 version 0.8.2:
47 - ACPI support
48 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
49 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
50 - VNC server fixes
51 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
52 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
53 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
54 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
55 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
56 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
57 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
58 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
59 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
60 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
61 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
62 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
64 version 0.8.1:
66 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
67 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
68 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
69 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
70 - SSE3 support
71 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
72 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
73 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
74 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
75 - USB fixes
76 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
78 version 0.8.0:
80 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
81 cpu (Paul Brook)
82 - SMP support
83 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
84 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
85 - DirectSound driver (malc)
86 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
87 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
88 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
89 - Initial USB support
90 - Linux host serial port access
91 - Linux host low level parallel port access
92 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
93 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
94 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
95 - NX bit support
96 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
97 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
98 (Johannes Schindelin)
100 version 0.7.2:
102 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
103 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
104 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
105 - better user net performances
107 version 0.7.1:
109 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
110 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
111 N. Oleynik)
112 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
113 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
114 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
115 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
116 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
117 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
119 version 0.7.0:
121 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
122 - user mode networking bug fix
123 - undocumented FPU ops support
124 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
125 - 'pidfile' option
126 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
127 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
128 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
129 - added generic 64 bit target support
130 - x86_64 target support
131 - initial APIC support
132 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
133 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
134 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
135 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
136 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
137 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
138 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
139 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
140 - Samba 3 support
141 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
142 - generic FPU emulation code
143 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
145 version 0.6.1:
147 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
148 - Virtual console support
149 - Better monitor line edition
150 - New block device layer
151 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
152 transparent decompression
153 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
154 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
155 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
156 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
157 - Support for not executable data sections
158 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
159 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
160 Wormley)
161 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
162 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
163 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
164 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
165 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
166 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
167 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
168 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
169 the virtual consoles.
170 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
171 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
172 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
173 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
174 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
175 - VGA font change fix
176 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
178 version 0.6.0:
180 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
181 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
182 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
183 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
184 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
185 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
186 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
187 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
188 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
189 - PCI support
190 - NE2K PCI support
191 - dummy VGA PCI support
192 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
193 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
194 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
195 - added '-localtime' option
196 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
197 - APM and system shutdown support
198 - Fixed system reset
199 - Support for other PC BIOSes
200 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
201 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
202 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
203 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
205 version 0.5.5:
207 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
208 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
209 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
210 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
211 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
212 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
213 - FDC fixes for Win98
215 version 0.5.4:
217 - qemu-fast fixes
218 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
219 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
220 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
221 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
222 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
223 - User mode network stack
224 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
225 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
227 version 0.5.3:
229 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
230 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
231 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
232 - CPU interrupt fixes
233 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
234 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
235 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
236 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
237 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
238 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
239 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
240 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
241 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
242 - graphical x86 linux loader
243 - command line monitor
244 - generic removable device support
245 - support of CD-ROM change
246 - multiple network interface support
247 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
248 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
249 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
250 - VM save/restore commands
251 - new timer API
252 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
253 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
255 version 0.5.2:
257 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
258 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
259 switching tasks
260 - improved qemu-fast speed
261 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
262 softmmu mode).
263 - fixed IO checking
264 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
265 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
266 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
267 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
268 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
269 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
270 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
271 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
272 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
273 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
274 - fixed xadd same reg bug
275 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
276 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
277 - task gate and NT flag fixes
278 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
280 version 0.5.1:
282 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
283 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
284 - A20 support
285 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
286 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
287 - SB16 emulation (malc)
288 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
289 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
290 - Full task switching/task gate support
291 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
292 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
293 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
295 version 0.5.0:
297 - full hardware level VGA emulation
298 - graphical display with SDL
299 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
300 - popw (%esp) fix
301 - mov to/from segment data width fix
302 - added real mode support
303 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
304 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
305 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
306 - multi-target build
307 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
308 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
309 - correct single stepping thru string operations
310 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
311 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
312 - automatic IDE geometry detection
313 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
314 - added man page
315 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
317 version 0.4.3:
319 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
320 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
321 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
322 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
324 version 0.4.2:
326 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
327 - IDE emulation support
328 - initial GDB stub support
329 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
330 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
331 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
333 version 0.4.1:
335 - more accurate timer support in vl.
336 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
337 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
338 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
340 version 0.4:
342 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
343 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
344 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
345 - fixed popl (%esp) case
346 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
348 version 0.3:
350 - initial support for ARM emulation
351 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
352 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
353 - initial ARM port
354 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
355 - generic ioctl number conversion
356 - fixed ioctl type conversion
358 version 0.2:
360 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
361 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
362 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
363 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
364 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
365 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
366 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
367 - added HLT instruction
368 - LRET instruction fix.
369 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
370 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
371 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
372 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
373 - self-modifying code support
374 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
375 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
376 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
377 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
378 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
380 version 0.1.6:
382 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
383 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
384 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
385 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
386 translation cache is not flushed)
387 - RH9 fixes
389 version 0.1.5:
391 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
392 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
393 - removed bfd.h dependancy
394 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
395 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
397 version 0.1.4:
399 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
400 executables in wine).
401 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
402 - added iret instruction.
403 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
405 version 0.1.3:
407 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
408 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
409 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
410 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
411 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
412 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
413 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
414 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
415 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
416 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
417 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
418 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
419 - poll() fix
421 version 0.1.2:
423 - compile fixes
424 - xlat instruction
425 - xchg instruction memory lock
426 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
427 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
428 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
430 version 0.1.1:
432 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
433 - added -s and -L options
434 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
435 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
437 version 0.1:
439 - initial public release.