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1version 0.12.1:
2 - loader: fix rom loading at address 0 (fixes target-arm) (Aurelien Jarno)
3 - loader: fix rom_copy (fixes multiboot) (Kevin Wolf)
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5version 0.12.0:
6
7 - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0
8 - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori)
9 - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino)
10 - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino)
11 - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino)
12 - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori)
13 - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
14 - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela)
15 - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie)
16 - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori)
17 - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann)
18 - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann)
19 - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann)
20 - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann)
21 - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino)
22 - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
23 - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf)
24 - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
25 - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini)
26 - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka)
27 - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori)
28 - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf)
29 - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf)
30 - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf)
31 - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara)
32 - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock)
33 - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson)
34 - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil)
35 - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd)
36 - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara)
37 - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
38
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39version 0.12.0-rc2:
40
41 - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
42 - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
43 - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
44 - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
45 - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
46 - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
47 - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann)
48 - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
49 - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
50 - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
51 - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
52 - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann)
53 - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
54 - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
55 - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
56 - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
57 - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
58 - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
59 - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
60 - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
61 - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster)
62 - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
63 - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster)
64 - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
65 - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
66 - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
67 - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
68 - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
69 - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
70 - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
71 - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
72 - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
73 - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)
74
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75version 0.10.2:
76
77 - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
78 - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
79 - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
80 - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
81 - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
82 - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
83 - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
84 - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
85 - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
86 - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
87 - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
88 - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
89 - fix VGA regression (malc)
90
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91version 0.10.1:
92
93 - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
94 - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
95 (Marcelo Tosatti)
96 - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
97 a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
98 - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
99 - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
100 - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
101 host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
102 loop (Aurelien Jarno)
103 - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
104 - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
105 - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
106 - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
107 - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
108 - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
109 - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
110 - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
111 (Ryan Harper)
112
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113version 0.10.0:
114
115 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
116 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
117 - BSD userspace emulation
118 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
119 - GDB XML register description support
120 - Intel e1000 emulation
121 - HPET emulation
122 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
123 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
124 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
125 - PCI hotplug support
126 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
127 - Curses display support
128 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
129 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
130 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
131 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
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132 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
133 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
134 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
c30bb264 135 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
0e674589 136 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
137 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
b4171e4b 138 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
57cd6e97 139
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140version 0.9.1:
141
430415f2 142 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
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143 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
144 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
54d43f70 145 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
33d68b5f 146 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
115646b6 147 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
5a5012ec 148 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
02645926 149 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
b65df015 150 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
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151 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
152 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
153 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
6ada7453 154 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
239fbd86 155 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
981623fe 156 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
cb33da57 157 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
a76dc35a 158 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
93a0019b 159 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
02645926 160 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
9ee6e8bb 161 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
d66846a1 162 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
6d1f1778 163 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
d66846a1 164 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
ad0504b5 165
7b9c30c5 166version 0.9.0:
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168 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
169 - Async file I/O API
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170 - New qcow2 disk image format
171 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
f0e42172 172 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
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173 - SMM support
174 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
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175 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
176 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
284ec167 177 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
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178 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
179 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
180 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
181 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
182 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
83f64091 183
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184version 0.8.2:
185
856860f5 186 - ACPI support
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187 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
188 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
189 - VNC server fixes
190 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
9529ebc2 191 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
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192 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
193 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
63301264 194 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
beac80cd 195 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
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196 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
197 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
198 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
199 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
200 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
201 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
a08beb33 202
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203version 0.8.1:
204
205 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
206 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
fd06c375 207 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
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208 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
209 - SSE3 support
9529ebc2 210 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
27c7ca7e 211 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
24236869 212 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
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213 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
214 - USB fixes
215 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
210fe0be 216
90dc3b39 217version 0.8.0:
1d14ffa9 218
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219 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
220 cpu (Paul Brook)
221 - SMP support
1d14ffa9 222 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
6f5f11a5 223 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
1d14ffa9 224 - DirectSound driver (malc)
d5d11eac 225 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
6f5f11a5 226 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
1d14ffa9 227 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bb36d470 228 - Initial USB support
f8d179e3 229 - Linux host serial port access
e57a8c0e 230 - Linux host low level parallel port access
41d03949 231 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
ea31eb5b 232 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
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233 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
234 - NX bit support
ba3c64fb 235 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
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236 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
237 (Johannes Schindelin)
f8d179e3 238
a7c15abb 239version 0.7.2:
3b46e624 240
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241 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
242 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
243 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
244 - better user net performances
245
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246version 0.7.1:
247
248 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
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249 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
250 N. Oleynik)
8979b227 251 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
3475187d 252 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
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253 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
254 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
33d08439 255 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
a7c15abb 256 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
de167e41 257
a8753c34 258version 0.7.0:
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260 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
261 - user mode networking bug fix
262 - undocumented FPU ops support
a07167d3 263 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
6a78ece5 264 - 'pidfile' option
585d0ed9 265 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
3d11d0eb 266 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
808c4954 267 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bdfaf503 268 - added generic 64 bit target support
a8753c34 269 - x86_64 target support
bdfaf503 270 - initial APIC support
664e0f19 271 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
6508fe59 272 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
99c475ab 273 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
a8753c34 274 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
99c475ab 275 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
b7bcbe95 276 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
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277 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
278 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
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279 - Samba 3 support
280 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
a8753c34 281 - generic FPU emulation code
6a0f9e82 282 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bed5cd80 283
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284version 0.6.1:
285
286 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
287 - Virtual console support
05d5818c 288 - Better monitor line edition
5fafdf24 289 - New block device layer
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290 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
291 transparent decompression
292 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
293 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
c7f74643 294 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
9bf05444 295 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
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296 - Support for not executable data sections
297 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
298 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
299 Wormley)
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300 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
301 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
302 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
e95c8d51 303 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
2518bd0d 304 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
d63d307f 305 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
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306 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
307 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
308 the virtual consoles.
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309 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
310 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
311 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
d75d9f6b 312 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
61a8c4ec 313 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
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314 - VGA font change fix
315 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
49b3b9fb 316
d08c49aa 317version 0.6.0:
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318
319 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
320 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
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321 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
322 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
323 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
324 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
325 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
326 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
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327 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
328 - PCI support
329 - NE2K PCI support
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330 - dummy VGA PCI support
331 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
b54ad049 332 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
15aeac38 333 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
be3edd95 334 - added '-localtime' option
7e71f16f 335 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
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336 - APM and system shutdown support
337 - Fixed system reset
70867490 338 - Support for other PC BIOSes
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339 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
340 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
d08c49aa 341 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
7e71f16f 342 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
44c513c4 343
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344version 0.5.5:
345
346 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
347 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
348 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
a1b74fe8 349 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
66201e2d 350 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
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351 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
352 - FDC fixes for Win98
b06eddd3 353
2f0c934e 354version 0.5.4:
3b46e624 355
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356 - qemu-fast fixes
357 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
358 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
359 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
360 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
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361 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
362 - User mode network stack
363 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
52c00a5f 364 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
2f0c934e 365
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366version 0.5.3:
367
6411cfb6 368 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
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369 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
370 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
371 - CPU interrupt fixes
372 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
22a46c55 373 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
94fe4f9f 374 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
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375 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
376 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
377 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
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378 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
379 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
380 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
381 - graphical x86 linux loader
5fafdf24 382 - command line monitor
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383 - generic removable device support
384 - support of CD-ROM change
385 - multiple network interface support
bc51c5c9 386 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
d9d849fc 387 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
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388 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
389 - VM save/restore commands
390 - new timer API
391 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
67b915a5 392 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bb27c190 393
efe160c5 394version 0.5.2:
2be3bc02 395
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396 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
397 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
398 switching tasks
399 - improved qemu-fast speed
400 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
401 softmmu mode).
402 - fixed IO checking
403 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
404 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
405 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
406 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
407 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
408 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
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409 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
410 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
411 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
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412 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
413 - fixed xadd same reg bug
414 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
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415 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
416 - task gate and NT flag fixes
e98c8721 417 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
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9c3ad574 419version 0.5.1:
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421 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
422 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
423 - A20 support
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424 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
425 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
426 - SB16 emulation (malc)
427 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
428 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
429 - Full task switching/task gate support
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430 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
431 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
3811a291 432 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
9c3ad574 433
285dc330 434version 0.5.0:
3b46e624 435
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436 - full hardware level VGA emulation
437 - graphical display with SDL
438 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
439 - popw (%esp) fix
440 - mov to/from segment data width fix
441 - added real mode support
0806e3f6 442 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
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443 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
444 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
445 - multi-target build
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446 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
447 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
448 - correct single stepping thru string operations
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449 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
450 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
451 - automatic IDE geometry detection
285dc330 452 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
0806e3f6 453 - added man page
9c3ad574 454 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
9368caf6 455
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456version 0.4.3:
457
458 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
459 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
460 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
461 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
462
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463version 0.4.2:
464
465 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
466 - IDE emulation support
467 - initial GDB stub support
468 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
9d0fe224 469 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
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470 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
471
d5a0b50c 472version 0.4.1:
3b46e624 473
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474 - more accurate timer support in vl.
475 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
476 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
477 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
478
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479version 0.4:
480
481 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
482 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
483 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
484 - fixed popl (%esp) case
1eb20527 485 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
6c0372d3 486
411bffc4 487version 0.3:
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489 - initial support for ARM emulation
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490 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
491 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
322d0c66 492 - initial ARM port
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493 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
494 - generic ioctl number conversion
495 - fixed ioctl type conversion
411bffc4 496
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497version 0.2:
498
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499 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
500 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
501 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
502 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
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503 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
504 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
505 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
86840ae2 506 - added HLT instruction
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507 - LRET instruction fix.
508 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
509 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
510 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
511 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
512 - self-modifying code support
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513 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
514 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
515 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
516 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
517 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
3c51961e 518
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519version 0.1.6:
520
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521 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
522 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
66cd5846 523 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
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524 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
525 translation cache is not flushed)
526 - RH9 fixes
66cd5846 527
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528version 0.1.5:
529
530 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
531 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
532 - removed bfd.h dependancy
533 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
534 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
535
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536version 0.1.4:
537
538 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
539 executables in wine).
540 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
541 - added iret instruction.
27c75a9a 542 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
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544version 0.1.3:
545
546 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
547 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
548 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
549 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
550 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
551 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
552 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
553 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
554 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
555 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
556 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
557 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
558 - poll() fix
5fafdf24 559
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560version 0.1.2:
561
562 - compile fixes
563 - xlat instruction
564 - xchg instruction memory lock
565 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
566 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
567 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
568
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569version 0.1.1:
570
571 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
572 - added -s and -L options
573 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bc8a22cc 574 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
d691f669 575
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576version 0.1:
577
578 - initial public release.