Changelog

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