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1 version 0.10.0:
3 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
4 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
5 - BSD userspace emulation
6 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
7 - GDB XML register description support
8 - Intel e1000 emulation
9 - HPET emulation
10 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
11 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
12 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
13 - PCI hotplug support
14 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
15 - Curses display support
16 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
17 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
18 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
19 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
20 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
21 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
22 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
23 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
24 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
25 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
26 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
28 version 0.9.1:
30 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
31 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
32 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
33 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
34 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
35 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
36 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
37 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
38 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
39 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
40 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
41 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
42 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
43 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
44 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
45 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
46 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
47 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
48 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
49 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
50 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
51 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
52 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
54 version 0.9.0:
56 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
57 - Async file I/O API
58 - New qcow2 disk image format
59 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
60 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
61 - SMM support
62 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
63 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
64 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
65 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
66 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
67 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
68 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
69 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
70 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
72 version 0.8.2:
74 - ACPI support
75 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
76 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
77 - VNC server fixes
78 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
79 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
80 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
81 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
82 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
83 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
84 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
85 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
86 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
87 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
88 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
89 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
91 version 0.8.1:
93 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
94 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
95 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
96 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
97 - SSE3 support
98 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
99 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
100 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
101 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
102 - USB fixes
103 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
105 version 0.8.0:
107 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
108 cpu (Paul Brook)
109 - SMP support
110 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
111 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
112 - DirectSound driver (malc)
113 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
114 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
115 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
116 - Initial USB support
117 - Linux host serial port access
118 - Linux host low level parallel port access
119 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
120 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
121 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
122 - NX bit support
123 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
124 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
125 (Johannes Schindelin)
127 version 0.7.2:
129 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
130 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
131 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
132 - better user net performances
134 version 0.7.1:
136 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
137 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
138 N. Oleynik)
139 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
140 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
141 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
142 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
143 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
144 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
146 version 0.7.0:
148 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
149 - user mode networking bug fix
150 - undocumented FPU ops support
151 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
152 - 'pidfile' option
153 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
154 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
155 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
156 - added generic 64 bit target support
157 - x86_64 target support
158 - initial APIC support
159 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
160 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
161 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
162 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
163 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
164 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
165 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
166 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
167 - Samba 3 support
168 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
169 - generic FPU emulation code
170 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
172 version 0.6.1:
174 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
175 - Virtual console support
176 - Better monitor line edition
177 - New block device layer
178 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
179 transparent decompression
180 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
181 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
182 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
183 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
184 - Support for not executable data sections
185 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
186 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
187 Wormley)
188 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
189 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
190 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
191 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
192 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
193 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
194 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
195 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
196 the virtual consoles.
197 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
198 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
199 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
200 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
201 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
202 - VGA font change fix
203 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
205 version 0.6.0:
207 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
208 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
209 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
210 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
211 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
212 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
213 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
214 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
215 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
216 - PCI support
217 - NE2K PCI support
218 - dummy VGA PCI support
219 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
220 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
221 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
222 - added '-localtime' option
223 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
224 - APM and system shutdown support
225 - Fixed system reset
226 - Support for other PC BIOSes
227 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
228 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
229 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
230 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
232 version 0.5.5:
234 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
235 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
236 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
237 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
238 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
239 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
240 - FDC fixes for Win98
242 version 0.5.4:
244 - qemu-fast fixes
245 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
246 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
247 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
248 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
249 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
250 - User mode network stack
251 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
252 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
254 version 0.5.3:
256 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
257 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
258 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
259 - CPU interrupt fixes
260 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
261 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
262 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
263 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
264 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
265 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
266 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
267 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
268 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
269 - graphical x86 linux loader
270 - command line monitor
271 - generic removable device support
272 - support of CD-ROM change
273 - multiple network interface support
274 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
275 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
276 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
277 - VM save/restore commands
278 - new timer API
279 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
280 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
282 version 0.5.2:
284 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
285 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
286 switching tasks
287 - improved qemu-fast speed
288 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
289 softmmu mode).
290 - fixed IO checking
291 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
292 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
293 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
294 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
295 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
296 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
297 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
298 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
299 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
300 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
301 - fixed xadd same reg bug
302 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
303 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
304 - task gate and NT flag fixes
305 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
307 version 0.5.1:
309 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
310 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
311 - A20 support
312 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
313 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
314 - SB16 emulation (malc)
315 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
316 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
317 - Full task switching/task gate support
318 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
319 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
320 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
322 version 0.5.0:
324 - full hardware level VGA emulation
325 - graphical display with SDL
326 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
327 - popw (%esp) fix
328 - mov to/from segment data width fix
329 - added real mode support
330 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
331 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
332 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
333 - multi-target build
334 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
335 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
336 - correct single stepping thru string operations
337 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
338 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
339 - automatic IDE geometry detection
340 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
341 - added man page
342 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
344 version 0.4.3:
346 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
347 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
348 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
349 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
351 version 0.4.2:
353 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
354 - IDE emulation support
355 - initial GDB stub support
356 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
357 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
358 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
360 version 0.4.1:
362 - more accurate timer support in vl.
363 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
364 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
365 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
367 version 0.4:
369 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
370 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
371 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
372 - fixed popl (%esp) case
373 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
375 version 0.3:
377 - initial support for ARM emulation
378 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
379 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
380 - initial ARM port
381 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
382 - generic ioctl number conversion
383 - fixed ioctl type conversion
385 version 0.2:
387 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
388 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
389 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
390 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
391 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
392 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
393 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
394 - added HLT instruction
395 - LRET instruction fix.
396 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
397 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
398 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
399 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
400 - self-modifying code support
401 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
402 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
403 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
404 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
405 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
407 version 0.1.6:
409 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
410 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
411 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
412 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
413 translation cache is not flushed)
414 - RH9 fixes
416 version 0.1.5:
418 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
419 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
420 - removed bfd.h dependancy
421 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
422 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
424 version 0.1.4:
426 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
427 executables in wine).
428 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
429 - added iret instruction.
430 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
432 version 0.1.3:
434 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
435 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
436 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
437 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
438 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
439 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
440 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
441 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
442 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
443 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
444 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
445 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
446 - poll() fix
448 version 0.1.2:
450 - compile fixes
451 - xlat instruction
452 - xchg instruction memory lock
453 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
454 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
455 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
457 version 0.1.1:
459 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
460 - added -s and -L options
461 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
462 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
464 version 0.1:
466 - initial public release.