Changelog

   1 version 0.7.1:
   2
   3   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
   4   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
   5     N. Oleynik)
   6   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
   7   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
   8
   9 version 0.7.0:
  10
  11   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  12   - user mode networking bug fix
  13   - undocumented FPU ops support
  14   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  15   - 'pidfile' option
  16   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  17   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  18   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  19   - added generic 64 bit target support
  20   - x86_64 target support
  21   - initial APIC support
  22   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  23   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  24   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  25   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  26   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  27   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  28   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  29   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  30   - Samba 3 support
  31   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  32   - generic FPU emulation code
  33   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  34
  35 version 0.6.1:
  36
  37   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  38   - Virtual console support
  39   - Better monitor line edition
  40   - New block device layer
  41   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  42     transparent decompression
  43   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  44   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  45   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  46   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  47   - Support for not executable data sections
  48   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  49   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  50     Wormley)
  51   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  52     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  53   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  54   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  55   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  56   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  57   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  58   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  59     the virtual consoles.
  60   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  61   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  62   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  63   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  64   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  65   - VGA font change fix
  66   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  67
  68 version 0.6.0:
  69
  70   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  71   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  72   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  73   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  74   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  75   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  76   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  77   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  78   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
  79   - PCI support
  80   - NE2K PCI support
  81   - dummy VGA PCI support
  82   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
  83   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
  84   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
  85   - added '-localtime' option
  86   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
  87   - APM and system shutdown support
  88   - Fixed system reset
  89   - Support for other PC BIOSes
  90   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
  91   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
  92   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
  93   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
  94
  95 version 0.5.5:
  96
  97   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  98   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  99   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 100   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 101   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 102   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 103   - FDC fixes for Win98
 104
 105 version 0.5.4:
 106
 107   - qemu-fast fixes
 108   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 109   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 110   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 111   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 112   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 113   - User mode network stack
 114   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 115   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 116
 117 version 0.5.3:
 118
 119   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 120   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 121   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 122   - CPU interrupt fixes
 123   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 124   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 125   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 126   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 127   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 128     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 129   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 130   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 131   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 132   - graphical x86 linux loader
 133   - command line monitor
 134   - generic removable device support
 135   - support of CD-ROM change
 136   - multiple network interface support
 137   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 138   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 139   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 140   - VM save/restore commands
 141   - new timer API
 142   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 143   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 144
 145 version 0.5.2:
 146
 147   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 148   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 149     switching tasks
 150   - improved qemu-fast speed
 151   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 152     softmmu mode).
 153   - fixed IO checking
 154   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 155   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 156   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 157   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 158   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 159     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 160   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 161   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 162   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 163   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 164   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 165   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 166   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 167   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 168   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 169
 170 version 0.5.1:
 171
 172   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 173   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 174   - A20 support
 175   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 176   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 177   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 178   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 179   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 180   - Full task switching/task gate support
 181   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 182   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 183   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 184
 185 version 0.5.0:
 186
 187   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 188   - graphical display with SDL
 189   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 190   - popw (%esp) fix
 191   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 192   - added real mode support
 193   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 194   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 195   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 196   - multi-target build
 197   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 198   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 199   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 200   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 201   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 202   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 203   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 204   - added man page
 205   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 206
 207 version 0.4.3:
 208
 209   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 210   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 211   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 212   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 213
 214 version 0.4.2:
 215
 216  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 217  - IDE emulation support
 218  - initial GDB stub support
 219  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 220  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 221  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 222
 223 version 0.4.1:
 224
 225  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 226  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 227  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 228  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 229
 230 version 0.4:
 231
 232  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 233  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 234  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 235  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 236  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 237
 238 version 0.3:
 239
 240  - initial support for ARM emulation
 241  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 242  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 243  - initial ARM port
 244  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 245  - generic ioctl number conversion
 246  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 247
 248 version 0.2:
 249
 250  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 251  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 252  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 253  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 254  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 255  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 256  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 257  - added HLT instruction
 258  - LRET instruction fix.
 259  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 260  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 261  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 262  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 263  - self-modifying code support
 264  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 265  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 266  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 267  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 268  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 269
 270 version 0.1.6:
 271
 272  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 273    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 274  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 275  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 276    translation cache is not flushed)
 277  - RH9 fixes
 278
 279 version 0.1.5:
 280
 281  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 282  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 283  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 284  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 285  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 286
 287 version 0.1.4:
 288
 289  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 290    executables in wine).
 291  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 292  - added iret instruction.
 293  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 294
 295 version 0.1.3:
 296
 297  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 298  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 299  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 300  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 301  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 302  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 303  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 304  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 305  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 306  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 307  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 308  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 309  - poll() fix
 310
 311 version 0.1.2:
 312
 313  - compile fixes
 314  - xlat instruction
 315  - xchg instruction memory lock
 316  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 317    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 318    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 319
 320 version 0.1.1:
 321
 322  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 323  - added -s and -L options
 324  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 325  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 326
 327 version 0.1:
 328
 329  - initial public release.