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1 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
2 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
3 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
4 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
6 version 0.9.1:
8 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
9 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
10 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
11 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
12 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
13 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
14 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
15 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
16 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
17 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
18 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
19 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
20 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
21 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
22 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
23 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
24 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
25 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
26 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
27 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
28 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
29 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
30 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
32 version 0.9.0:
34 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
35 - Async file I/O API
36 - New qcow2 disk image format
37 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
38 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
39 - SMM support
40 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
41 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
42 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
43 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
44 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
45 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
46 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
47 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
48 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
50 version 0.8.2:
52 - ACPI support
53 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
54 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
55 - VNC server fixes
56 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
57 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
58 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
59 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
60 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
61 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
62 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
63 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
64 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
65 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
66 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
67 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
69 version 0.8.1:
71 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
72 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
73 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
74 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
75 - SSE3 support
76 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
77 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
78 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
79 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
80 - USB fixes
81 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
83 version 0.8.0:
85 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
86 cpu (Paul Brook)
87 - SMP support
88 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
89 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
90 - DirectSound driver (malc)
91 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
92 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
93 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
94 - Initial USB support
95 - Linux host serial port access
96 - Linux host low level parallel port access
97 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
98 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
99 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
100 - NX bit support
101 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
102 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
103 (Johannes Schindelin)
105 version 0.7.2:
107 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
108 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
109 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
110 - better user net performances
112 version 0.7.1:
114 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
115 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
116 N. Oleynik)
117 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
118 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
119 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
120 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
121 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
122 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
124 version 0.7.0:
126 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
127 - user mode networking bug fix
128 - undocumented FPU ops support
129 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
130 - 'pidfile' option
131 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
132 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
133 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
134 - added generic 64 bit target support
135 - x86_64 target support
136 - initial APIC support
137 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
138 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
139 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
140 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
141 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
142 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
143 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
144 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
145 - Samba 3 support
146 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
147 - generic FPU emulation code
148 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
150 version 0.6.1:
152 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
153 - Virtual console support
154 - Better monitor line edition
155 - New block device layer
156 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
157 transparent decompression
158 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
159 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
160 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
161 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
162 - Support for not executable data sections
163 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
164 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
165 Wormley)
166 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
167 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
168 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
169 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
170 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
171 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
172 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
173 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
174 the virtual consoles.
175 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
176 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
177 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
178 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
179 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
180 - VGA font change fix
181 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
183 version 0.6.0:
185 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
186 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
187 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
188 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
189 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
190 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
191 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
192 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
193 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
194 - PCI support
195 - NE2K PCI support
196 - dummy VGA PCI support
197 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
198 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
199 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
200 - added '-localtime' option
201 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
202 - APM and system shutdown support
203 - Fixed system reset
204 - Support for other PC BIOSes
205 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
206 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
207 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
208 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
210 version 0.5.5:
212 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
213 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
214 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
215 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
216 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
217 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
218 - FDC fixes for Win98
220 version 0.5.4:
222 - qemu-fast fixes
223 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
224 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
225 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
226 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
227 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
228 - User mode network stack
229 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
230 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
232 version 0.5.3:
234 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
235 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
236 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
237 - CPU interrupt fixes
238 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
239 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
240 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
241 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
242 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
243 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
244 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
245 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
246 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
247 - graphical x86 linux loader
248 - command line monitor
249 - generic removable device support
250 - support of CD-ROM change
251 - multiple network interface support
252 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
253 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
254 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
255 - VM save/restore commands
256 - new timer API
257 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
258 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
260 version 0.5.2:
262 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
263 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
264 switching tasks
265 - improved qemu-fast speed
266 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
267 softmmu mode).
268 - fixed IO checking
269 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
270 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
271 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
272 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
273 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
274 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
275 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
276 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
277 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
278 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
279 - fixed xadd same reg bug
280 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
281 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
282 - task gate and NT flag fixes
283 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
285 version 0.5.1:
287 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
288 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
289 - A20 support
290 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
291 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
292 - SB16 emulation (malc)
293 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
294 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
295 - Full task switching/task gate support
296 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
297 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
298 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
300 version 0.5.0:
302 - full hardware level VGA emulation
303 - graphical display with SDL
304 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
305 - popw (%esp) fix
306 - mov to/from segment data width fix
307 - added real mode support
308 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
309 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
310 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
311 - multi-target build
312 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
313 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
314 - correct single stepping thru string operations
315 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
316 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
317 - automatic IDE geometry detection
318 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
319 - added man page
320 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
322 version 0.4.3:
324 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
325 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
326 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
327 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
329 version 0.4.2:
331 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
332 - IDE emulation support
333 - initial GDB stub support
334 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
335 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
336 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
338 version 0.4.1:
340 - more accurate timer support in vl.
341 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
342 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
343 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
345 version 0.4:
347 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
348 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
349 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
350 - fixed popl (%esp) case
351 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
353 version 0.3:
355 - initial support for ARM emulation
356 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
357 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
358 - initial ARM port
359 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
360 - generic ioctl number conversion
361 - fixed ioctl type conversion
363 version 0.2:
365 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
366 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
367 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
368 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
369 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
370 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
371 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
372 - added HLT instruction
373 - LRET instruction fix.
374 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
375 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
376 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
377 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
378 - self-modifying code support
379 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
380 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
381 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
382 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
383 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
385 version 0.1.6:
387 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
388 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
389 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
390 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
391 translation cache is not flushed)
392 - RH9 fixes
394 version 0.1.5:
396 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
397 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
398 - removed bfd.h dependancy
399 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
400 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
402 version 0.1.4:
404 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
405 executables in wine).
406 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
407 - added iret instruction.
408 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
410 version 0.1.3:
412 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
413 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
414 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
415 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
416 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
417 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
418 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
419 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
420 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
421 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
422 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
423 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
424 - poll() fix
426 version 0.1.2:
428 - compile fixes
429 - xlat instruction
430 - xchg instruction memory lock
431 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
432 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
433 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
435 version 0.1.1:
437 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
438 - added -s and -L options
439 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
440 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
442 version 0.1:
444 - initial public release.