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1 version 0.11.0-rc2
2 - mips: fix conditional move off fp conditions codes (Nath Froyd)
3 - fix migration to obey -S (Paolo Bonzini)
4 - remove pc-0-10 machine type (Mark McLoughlin)
5 - vnc: fix copyrect screen corruption (Gerd Hoffman)
6 - fix vm state change handlers running order (Markus Armbruster)
7 - e1000: fix eerc and ics emulation (Bill Paul)
8 - fix sdl zooming with pl110 (Blue Swirl)
9 - sparc64: flush pending conditional evaluations (Igor Kovalenko)
10 - esp: fix interrupt register read (Blue Swirl)
11 - option rom makefile fixes (Paul Brook)
12 - fix sparse warnings (Blue Swirl)
13 - fix symfind (Laurent Desnogues)
14 - win32: fix default prefix (Stefan Weil)
15 - fix checksum writing in signboot (Alex Graf)
16 - fix sdl window resize (Stefano Stabellini)
17 - do not resize the screen on hw_invalidate (Stefano Stabellini)
18 - Add checks for -smbios option (Beth Kon)
19 - fix do_set_link (Luiz Capitulino)
20 - fix do_commit behavior (Luiz Capitulino)
21 - make windows notice media change (Gleb Natapov)
22 - check for PR_SET_NAME being defined (Nathan Froyd)
23 - fix migration for ide devices (Anthony Liguori)
24 - Use correct depth in vmware vga (Reimar Doffiner)
25 - support 32bpp cursors in sdl (Reimar Doffinger)
26 - fix device name completion for eject (Blue Swirl)
27 - make screendump use DisplayState properly (Stefano Stabellini)
28 - fix autostart with live migration (Avi Kivity)
29 - fix detached migration with exec (Chris Lalancette)
30 - fix segv when changing vnc password in sdl (Zach Amsden)
31 - fix vnc password clearing with stdio monitor (Zach Amsden)
32 - clean up VGA type selection (Zach Amsden)
33 - add missing linefeed in error message (Stefan Weil)
34
35 version 0.11.0-rc1
36 - add machine aliasing support (Mark McLoughlin)
37 - add getfd/closefd monitor commands (Mark McLoughlin)
38 - use correct headers for tap-win32 (Filip Navara)
39 - fix live migration (Glauber Costa)
40 - slirp: use monotonic clock if available (Ed Swierk)
41 - clear msix_entries_nr on error (Michael Tsirkin)
42 - HPET: fix reg writes (Beth Kon)
43 - slirp: fix guestfwd for incoming data (Jan Kiszka)
44 - fix build of qemu-thread.c on win32 (Sebastian Herbszt)
45 - improve signrom.sh portability (Christoph Egger)
46 - fix qemu-img convert to copy unallocated parts of the image
47 (Akkarit Sangpetch)
48 - vmdk: fix backing file handling (Kevin Wolf)
49 - scsi: add save/restore support (Nolan Leake)
50 - fix live migration for SCSI (Nolan Leake)
51 - various sparc build fixes (Blue Swirl)
52 - fix OpenBSD build (Blue Swirl)
53 - only allow -cpu host when using KVM (Anthony Liguori)
54 - fix build breakage when !KVM (Anthony Liguori)
55
56 version 0.10.6:
57 - e1000: ignore reset command (Kevin Wolf)
58 - fix VNC memory allocation (Stefan Weil)
59 - fix raw_pread_aligned return value (Christoph Hellwig)
60 - allow monitor interaction when using -incoming exec: (Chris Lalancette)
61 - fix -net socket,listen (Jan Kiszka)
62 - live migration: don't send gratuitous packets all at once (Gleb Natapov)
63 - serial: fix lost characters after sysrq (Jason Wessel)
64 - Fix prototype of zfree (Stefan Weil)
65 - Handle EINTR with exec: migration (Uri Lublin)
66 - Delete io-handler before closing fd after migration (Uri Lublin)
67 - Fix qemu_aio_flush (Andrea Arcangeli)
68 - lsi53c895a: Implement additional registers (Sebastian Herbszt)
69 - virtio-blk: fix warning (Gerd Hoffman)
70 - i386: fix cpu reset (Nitin Kamble)
71 - kvm: fix irq injection into full queue (Jan Kiszka)
72 - Prevent CD-ROM eject while device is locked (Mark McLoughlin)
73 - Fix screen dump with blank screen (Eduardo Habkost)
74 - Fix memory leak with cpu_unregister_map_client (Isaku Yamahata)
75 - Fix memory leak in SDL (Jan Kiszka)
76 - Fix build on OS X 10.4 (John Arbuckle)
77 - Fix leak of vlan clients after hot remove (Mark McLoughlin)
78 - Fix migration after hot remove with eepro100 (Mark McLoughlin)
79 - Don't start a VM after failed migration if stopped (Anthony Liguori)
80 - Fix live migration under heavy IO load (Glauber Costa)
81 - Honor -S on incoming migration (Paolo Bonzini)
82 - Reset HPET config register on reset (Beth Kon)
83 - Reset PS2 keyboard/mouse on reset (Dinesh Subraveti)
84
85 version 0.10.5:
86 - kvm: trim unsupported cpu features from cpuid (Avi Kivity)
87 - kvm: provide a better error message for -smp > 1 (Mark McLoughlin)
88 - Remove initrd printfs (Richard Jones)
89 - Initial variables found by valgrind (Jean-Christophe Dubois)
90 - Fix -initrd with > 4GB guests (Glauber Costa)
91 - Fix busy loop on live migration for certain platforms (Uri Lublin)
92 - Remove GCC 3.x requirements from docs (Hollis Blanchard)
93 - ETRAX: fixes for kernel command line, ethernet address, bmi (Edgar Iglesias)
94 - CRIS: Fix bmi (Edgar Iglesias)
95 - Fix bounce buffer errors (Avi Kivity)
96 - Fix regression in -kernel (Anthony Liguori)
97
98 version 0.10.4:
99 - Improve block range checks to remove integer overflow (Kevin Wolf)
100 - e1000: do not re-init PCI config space 0 (Amit Shah)
101 - fix AIO deletion race (Alex Graf)
102 - reset option roms on reboot (Glauber Costa)
103 - fix qcow2 corruption in cluster freeing (Gleb Natapov)
104 - Enable power button event generation (Gleb Natapov)
105
106 version 0.10.3:
107 - fix AIO cancellations (Avi Kivity)
108 - fix live migration error path on incoming
109 - avoid SEGV on pci hotplug failure (Chris Wright)
110 - fix serial option in -drive
111 - support DDIM for option roms (Glauber Costa)
112 - avoid fork/exec on pre-2.6.27 kernels with KVM (Jan Kiszka)
113 - block-vpc: don't silently create smaller images than requested (Kevin Wolf)
114 - Fix non-ACPI timer interrupt routing (Beth Kon)
115 - hpet: fix emulation of HPET_TN_SETVAL (Jan Kiszka)
116 - kvm: fix cpuid initialization (Jan Kiszka)
117 - qcow2: fix corruption on little endian hosts (Kevin Wolf)
118 - avoid leaing memory on hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin)
119 - fix savevm/migration after hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin)
120 - Fix keyboard mapping on newer Xords with non-default keymaps (balrog)
121 - Make PCI config status register read-only (Anthony Liguori)
122 - Fix crash on resolution change -> screen dump -> vga redraw (Avi Kivity)
123
124 version 0.10.2:
125
126 - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
127 - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
128 - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
129 - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
130 - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
131 - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
132 - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
133 - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
134 - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
135 - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
136 - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
137 - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
138 - fix VGA regression (malc)
139
140 version 0.10.1:
141
142 - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
143 - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
144 (Marcelo Tosatti)
145 - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
146 a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
147 - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
148 - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
149 - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
150 host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
151 loop (Aurelien Jarno)
152 - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
153 - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
154 - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
155 - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
156 - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
157 - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
158 - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
159 - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
160 (Ryan Harper)
161
162 version 0.10.0:
163
164 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
165 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
166 - BSD userspace emulation
167 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
168 - GDB XML register description support
169 - Intel e1000 emulation
170 - HPET emulation
171 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
172 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
173 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
174 - PCI hotplug support
175 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
176 - Curses display support
177 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
178 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
179 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
180 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
181 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
182 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
183 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
184 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
185 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
186 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
187 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
188
189 version 0.9.1:
190
191 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
192 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
193 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
194 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
195 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
196 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
197 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
198 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
199 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
200 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
201 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
202 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
203 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
204 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
205 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
206 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
207 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
208 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
209 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
210 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
211 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
212 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
213 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
214
215 version 0.9.0:
216
217 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
218 - Async file I/O API
219 - New qcow2 disk image format
220 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
221 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
222 - SMM support
223 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
224 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
225 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
226 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
227 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
228 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
229 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
230 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
231 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
232
233 version 0.8.2:
234
235 - ACPI support
236 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
237 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
238 - VNC server fixes
239 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
240 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
241 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
242 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
243 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
244 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
245 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
246 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
247 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
248 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
249 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
250 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
251
252 version 0.8.1:
253
254 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
255 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
256 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
257 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
258 - SSE3 support
259 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
260 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
261 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
262 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
263 - USB fixes
264 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
265
266 version 0.8.0:
267
268 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
269 cpu (Paul Brook)
270 - SMP support
271 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
272 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
273 - DirectSound driver (malc)
274 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
275 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
276 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
277 - Initial USB support
278 - Linux host serial port access
279 - Linux host low level parallel port access
280 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
281 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
282 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
283 - NX bit support
284 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
285 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
286 (Johannes Schindelin)
287
288 version 0.7.2:
289
290 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
291 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
292 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
293 - better user net performances
294
295 version 0.7.1:
296
297 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
298 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
299 N. Oleynik)
300 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
301 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
302 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
303 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
304 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
305 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
306
307 version 0.7.0:
308
309 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
310 - user mode networking bug fix
311 - undocumented FPU ops support
312 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
313 - 'pidfile' option
314 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
315 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
316 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
317 - added generic 64 bit target support
318 - x86_64 target support
319 - initial APIC support
320 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
321 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
322 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
323 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
324 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
325 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
326 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
327 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
328 - Samba 3 support
329 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
330 - generic FPU emulation code
331 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
332
333 version 0.6.1:
334
335 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
336 - Virtual console support
337 - Better monitor line edition
338 - New block device layer
339 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
340 transparent decompression
341 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
342 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
343 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
344 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
345 - Support for not executable data sections
346 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
347 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
348 Wormley)
349 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
350 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
351 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
352 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
353 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
354 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
355 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
356 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
357 the virtual consoles.
358 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
359 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
360 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
361 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
362 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
363 - VGA font change fix
364 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
365
366 version 0.6.0:
367
368 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
369 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
370 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
371 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
372 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
373 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
374 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
375 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
376 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
377 - PCI support
378 - NE2K PCI support
379 - dummy VGA PCI support
380 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
381 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
382 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
383 - added '-localtime' option
384 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
385 - APM and system shutdown support
386 - Fixed system reset
387 - Support for other PC BIOSes
388 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
389 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
390 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
391 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
392
393 version 0.5.5:
394
395 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
396 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
397 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
398 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
399 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
400 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
401 - FDC fixes for Win98
402
403 version 0.5.4:
404
405 - qemu-fast fixes
406 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
407 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
408 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
409 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
410 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
411 - User mode network stack
412 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
413 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
414
415 version 0.5.3:
416
417 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
418 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
419 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
420 - CPU interrupt fixes
421 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
422 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
423 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
424 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
425 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
426 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
427 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
428 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
429 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
430 - graphical x86 linux loader
431 - command line monitor
432 - generic removable device support
433 - support of CD-ROM change
434 - multiple network interface support
435 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
436 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
437 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
438 - VM save/restore commands
439 - new timer API
440 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
441 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
442
443 version 0.5.2:
444
445 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
446 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
447 switching tasks
448 - improved qemu-fast speed
449 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
450 softmmu mode).
451 - fixed IO checking
452 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
453 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
454 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
455 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
456 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
457 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
458 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
459 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
460 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
461 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
462 - fixed xadd same reg bug
463 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
464 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
465 - task gate and NT flag fixes
466 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
467
468 version 0.5.1:
469
470 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
471 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
472 - A20 support
473 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
474 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
475 - SB16 emulation (malc)
476 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
477 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
478 - Full task switching/task gate support
479 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
480 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
481 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
482
483 version 0.5.0:
484
485 - full hardware level VGA emulation
486 - graphical display with SDL
487 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
488 - popw (%esp) fix
489 - mov to/from segment data width fix
490 - added real mode support
491 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
492 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
493 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
494 - multi-target build
495 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
496 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
497 - correct single stepping thru string operations
498 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
499 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
500 - automatic IDE geometry detection
501 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
502 - added man page
503 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
504
505 version 0.4.3:
506
507 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
508 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
509 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
510 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
511
512 version 0.4.2:
513
514 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
515 - IDE emulation support
516 - initial GDB stub support
517 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
518 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
519 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
520
521 version 0.4.1:
522
523 - more accurate timer support in vl.
524 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
525 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
526 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
527
528 version 0.4:
529
530 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
531 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
532 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
533 - fixed popl (%esp) case
534 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
535
536 version 0.3:
537
538 - initial support for ARM emulation
539 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
540 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
541 - initial ARM port
542 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
543 - generic ioctl number conversion
544 - fixed ioctl type conversion
545
546 version 0.2:
547
548 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
549 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
550 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
551 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
552 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
553 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
554 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
555 - added HLT instruction
556 - LRET instruction fix.
557 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
558 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
559 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
560 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
561 - self-modifying code support
562 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
563 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
564 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
565 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
566 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
567
568 version 0.1.6:
569
570 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
571 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
572 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
573 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
574 translation cache is not flushed)
575 - RH9 fixes
576
577 version 0.1.5:
578
579 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
580 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
581 - removed bfd.h dependancy
582 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
583 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
584
585 version 0.1.4:
586
587 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
588 executables in wine).
589 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
590 - added iret instruction.
591 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
592
593 version 0.1.3:
594
595 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
596 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
597 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
598 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
599 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
600 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
601 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
602 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
603 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
604 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
605 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
606 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
607 - poll() fix
608
609 version 0.1.2:
610
611 - compile fixes
612 - xlat instruction
613 - xchg instruction memory lock
614 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
615 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
616 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
617
618 version 0.1.1:
619
620 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
621 - added -s and -L options
622 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
623 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
624
625 version 0.1:
626
627 - initial public release.