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1 version 0.8.3:
3 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
4 - Async file I/O API
5 - New qcow2 disk image format
6 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
8 version 0.8.2:
10 - ACPI support
11 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
12 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
13 - VNC server fixes
14 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
15 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)
16 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
17 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
18 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
19 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
20 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
21 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
22 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
23 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
24 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
25 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
27 version 0.8.1:
29 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
30 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
31 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
32 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
33 - SSE3 support
34 - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
35 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
36 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
37 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
38 - USB fixes
39 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
41 version 0.8.0:
43 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
44 cpu (Paul Brook)
45 - SMP support
46 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
47 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
48 - DirectSound driver (malc)
49 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
50 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
51 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
52 - Initial USB support
53 - Linux host serial port access
54 - Linux host low level parallel port access
55 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
56 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
57 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
58 - NX bit support
59 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
60 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
61 (Johannes Schindelin)
63 version 0.7.2:
65 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
66 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
67 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
68 - better user net performances
70 version 0.7.1:
72 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
73 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
74 N. Oleynik)
75 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
76 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
77 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
78 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
79 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
80 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
82 version 0.7.0:
84 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
85 - user mode networking bug fix
86 - undocumented FPU ops support
87 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
88 - 'pidfile' option
89 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
90 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
91 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
92 - added generic 64 bit target support
93 - x86_64 target support
94 - initial APIC support
95 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
96 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
97 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
98 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
99 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
100 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
101 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
102 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
103 - Samba 3 support
104 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
105 - generic FPU emulation code
106 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
108 version 0.6.1:
110 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
111 - Virtual console support
112 - Better monitor line edition
113 - New block device layer
114 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
115 transparent decompression
116 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
117 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
118 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
119 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
120 - Support for not executable data sections
121 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
122 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
123 Wormley)
124 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
125 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
126 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
127 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
128 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
129 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
130 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
131 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
132 the virtual consoles.
133 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
134 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
135 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
136 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
137 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
138 - VGA font change fix
139 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
141 version 0.6.0:
143 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
144 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
145 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
146 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
147 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
148 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
149 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
150 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
151 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
152 - PCI support
153 - NE2K PCI support
154 - dummy VGA PCI support
155 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
156 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
157 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
158 - added '-localtime' option
159 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
160 - APM and system shutdown support
161 - Fixed system reset
162 - Support for other PC BIOSes
163 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
164 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
165 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
166 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
168 version 0.5.5:
170 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
171 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
172 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
173 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
174 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
175 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
176 - FDC fixes for Win98
178 version 0.5.4:
180 - qemu-fast fixes
181 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
182 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
183 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
184 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
185 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
186 - User mode network stack
187 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
188 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
190 version 0.5.3:
192 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
193 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
194 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
195 - CPU interrupt fixes
196 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
197 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
198 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
199 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
200 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
201 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
202 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
203 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
204 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
205 - graphical x86 linux loader
206 - command line monitor
207 - generic removable device support
208 - support of CD-ROM change
209 - multiple network interface support
210 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
211 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
212 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
213 - VM save/restore commands
214 - new timer API
215 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
216 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
218 version 0.5.2:
220 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
221 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
222 switching tasks
223 - improved qemu-fast speed
224 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
225 softmmu mode).
226 - fixed IO checking
227 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
228 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
229 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
230 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
231 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
232 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
233 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
234 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
235 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
236 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
237 - fixed xadd same reg bug
238 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
239 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
240 - task gate and NT flag fixes
241 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
243 version 0.5.1:
245 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
246 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
247 - A20 support
248 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
249 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
250 - SB16 emulation (malc)
251 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
252 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
253 - Full task switching/task gate support
254 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
255 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
256 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
258 version 0.5.0:
260 - full hardware level VGA emulation
261 - graphical display with SDL
262 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
263 - popw (%esp) fix
264 - mov to/from segment data width fix
265 - added real mode support
266 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
267 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
268 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
269 - multi-target build
270 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
271 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
272 - correct single stepping thru string operations
273 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
274 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
275 - automatic IDE geometry detection
276 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
277 - added man page
278 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
280 version 0.4.3:
282 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
283 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
284 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
285 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
287 version 0.4.2:
289 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
290 - IDE emulation support
291 - initial GDB stub support
292 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
293 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
294 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
296 version 0.4.1:
298 - more accurate timer support in vl.
299 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
300 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
301 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
303 version 0.4:
305 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
306 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
307 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
308 - fixed popl (%esp) case
309 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
311 version 0.3:
313 - initial support for ARM emulation
314 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
315 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
316 - initial ARM port
317 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
318 - generic ioctl number conversion
319 - fixed ioctl type conversion
321 version 0.2:
323 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
324 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
325 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
326 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
327 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
328 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
329 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
330 - added HLT instruction
331 - LRET instruction fix.
332 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
333 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
334 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
335 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
336 - self-modifying code support
337 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
338 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
339 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
340 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
341 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
343 version 0.1.6:
345 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
346 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
347 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
348 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
349 translation cache is not flushed)
350 - RH9 fixes
352 version 0.1.5:
354 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
355 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
356 - removed bfd.h dependancy
357 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
358 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
360 version 0.1.4:
362 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
363 executables in wine).
364 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
365 - added iret instruction.
366 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
368 version 0.1.3:
370 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
371 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
372 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
373 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
374 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
375 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
376 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
377 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
378 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
379 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
380 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
381 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
382 - poll() fix
384 version 0.1.2:
386 - compile fixes
387 - xlat instruction
388 - xchg instruction memory lock
389 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
390 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
391 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
393 version 0.1.1:
395 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
396 - added -s and -L options
397 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
398 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
400 version 0.1:
402 - initial public release.