Changelog

   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)
   5   - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
   6   - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
   7
   8 version 0.9.1:
   9
  10   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
  11   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
  12   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
  13   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
  14   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
  15   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
  16   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
  17   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  18   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
  19   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
  20   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
  21   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
  22   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
  23   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
  24   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
  25   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
  26   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
  27   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
  28   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  29   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
  30   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
  31   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
  32   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  33
  34 version 0.9.0:
  35
  36   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  37   - Async file I/O API
  38   - New qcow2 disk image format
  39   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  40   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  41   - SMM support
  42   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  43   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  44   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  45   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  46   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  47   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  48   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  49   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  50   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
  51
  52 version 0.8.2:
  53
  54   - ACPI support
  55   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
  56   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
  57   - VNC server fixes
  58   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
  59   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
  60   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  61   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  62   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
  63   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  64   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
  65   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
  66   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
  67   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
  68   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
  69   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
  70
  71 version 0.8.1:
  72
  73   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  74   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  75   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  76   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  77   - SSE3 support
  78   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
  79   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  80   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  81   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  82   - USB fixes
  83   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  84
  85 version 0.8.0:
  86
  87   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  88     cpu (Paul Brook)
  89   - SMP support
  90   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  91   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  92   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  93   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  94   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  95   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  96   - Initial USB support
  97   - Linux host serial port access
  98   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  99   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
 100   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
 101   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
 102   - NX bit support
 103   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
 104   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
 105     (Johannes Schindelin)
 106
 107 version 0.7.2:
 108
 109   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
 110   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
 111   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
 112   - better user net performances
 113
 114 version 0.7.1:
 115
 116   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
 117   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
 118     N. Oleynik)
 119   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
 120   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
 121   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
 122   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
 123   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
 124   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
 125
 126 version 0.7.0:
 127
 128   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 129   - user mode networking bug fix
 130   - undocumented FPU ops support
 131   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 132   - 'pidfile' option
 133   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 134   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 135   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 136   - added generic 64 bit target support
 137   - x86_64 target support
 138   - initial APIC support
 139   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 140   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 141   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 142   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
 143   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 144   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 145   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 146   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 147   - Samba 3 support
 148   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 149   - generic FPU emulation code
 150   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 151
 152 version 0.6.1:
 153
 154   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 155   - Virtual console support
 156   - Better monitor line edition
 157   - New block device layer
 158   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 159     transparent decompression
 160   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 161   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 162   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 163   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 164   - Support for not executable data sections
 165   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 166   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 167     Wormley)
 168   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 169     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 170   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 171   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 172   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 173   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 174   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 175   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 176     the virtual consoles.
 177   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 178   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 179   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 180   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 181   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 182   - VGA font change fix
 183   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 184
 185 version 0.6.0:
 186
 187   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 188   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 189   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 190   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 191   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 192   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 193   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 194   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 195   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 196   - PCI support
 197   - NE2K PCI support
 198   - dummy VGA PCI support
 199   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 200   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 201   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 202   - added '-localtime' option
 203   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 204   - APM and system shutdown support
 205   - Fixed system reset
 206   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 207   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 208   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 209   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 210   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 211
 212 version 0.5.5:
 213
 214   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 215   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 216   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 217   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 218   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 219   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 220   - FDC fixes for Win98
 221
 222 version 0.5.4:
 223
 224   - qemu-fast fixes
 225   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 226   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 227   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 228   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 229   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 230   - User mode network stack
 231   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 232   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 233
 234 version 0.5.3:
 235
 236   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 237   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 238   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 239   - CPU interrupt fixes
 240   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 241   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 242   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 243   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 244   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 245     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 246   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 247   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 248   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 249   - graphical x86 linux loader
 250   - command line monitor
 251   - generic removable device support
 252   - support of CD-ROM change
 253   - multiple network interface support
 254   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 255   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 256   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 257   - VM save/restore commands
 258   - new timer API
 259   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 260   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 261
 262 version 0.5.2:
 263
 264   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 265   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 266     switching tasks
 267   - improved qemu-fast speed
 268   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 269     softmmu mode).
 270   - fixed IO checking
 271   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 272   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 273   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 274   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 275   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 276     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 277   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 278   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 279   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 280   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 281   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 282   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 283   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 284   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 285   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 286
 287 version 0.5.1:
 288
 289   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 290   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 291   - A20 support
 292   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 293   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 294   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 295   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 296   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 297   - Full task switching/task gate support
 298   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 299   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 300   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 301
 302 version 0.5.0:
 303
 304   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 305   - graphical display with SDL
 306   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 307   - popw (%esp) fix
 308   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 309   - added real mode support
 310   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 311   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 312   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 313   - multi-target build
 314   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 315   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 316   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 317   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 318   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 319   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 320   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 321   - added man page
 322   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 323
 324 version 0.4.3:
 325
 326   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 327   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 328   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 329   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 330
 331 version 0.4.2:
 332
 333  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 334  - IDE emulation support
 335  - initial GDB stub support
 336  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 337  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 338  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 339
 340 version 0.4.1:
 341
 342  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 343  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 344  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 345  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 346
 347 version 0.4:
 348
 349  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 350  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 351  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 352  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 353  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 354
 355 version 0.3:
 356
 357  - initial support for ARM emulation
 358  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 359  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 360  - initial ARM port
 361  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 362  - generic ioctl number conversion
 363  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 364
 365 version 0.2:
 366
 367  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 368  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 369  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 370  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 371  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 372  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 373  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 374  - added HLT instruction
 375  - LRET instruction fix.
 376  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 377  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 378  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 379  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 380  - self-modifying code support
 381  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 382  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 383  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 384  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 385  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 386
 387 version 0.1.6:
 388
 389  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 390    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 391  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 392  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 393    translation cache is not flushed)
 394  - RH9 fixes
 395
 396 version 0.1.5:
 397
 398  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 399  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 400  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 401  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 402  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 403
 404 version 0.1.4:
 405
 406  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 407    executables in wine).
 408  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 409  - added iret instruction.
 410  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 411
 412 version 0.1.3:
 413
 414  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 415  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 416  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 417  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 418  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 419  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 420  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 421  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 422  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 423  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 424  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 425  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 426  - poll() fix
 427
 428 version 0.1.2:
 429
 430  - compile fixes
 431  - xlat instruction
 432  - xchg instruction memory lock
 433  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 434    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 435    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 436
 437 version 0.1.1:
 438
 439  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 440  - added -s and -L options
 441  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 442  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 443
 444 version 0.1:
 445
 446  - initial public release.