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