Changelog

   1 version 0.6.2:
   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   - initial x86_64 target support
  13   - initial APIC support
  14
  15 version 0.6.1:
  16
  17   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  18   - Virtual console support
  19   - Better monitor line edition
  20   - New block device layer
  21   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  22     transparent decompression
  23   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  24   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  25   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  26   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  27   - Support for not executable data sections
  28   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  29   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  30     Wormley)
  31   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  32     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
  33   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
  34   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
  35   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
  36   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
  37   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
  38   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
  39     the virtual consoles.
  40   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
  41   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
  42   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
  43   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
  44   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
  45   - VGA font change fix
  46   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
  47
  48 version 0.6.0:
  49
  50   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
  51   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
  52   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
  53   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
  54   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
  55   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
  56   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
  57   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
  58   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
  59   - PCI support
  60   - NE2K PCI support
  61   - dummy VGA PCI support
  62   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
  63   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
  64   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
  65   - added '-localtime' option
  66   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
  67   - APM and system shutdown support
  68   - Fixed system reset
  69   - Support for other PC BIOSes
  70   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
  71   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
  72   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
  73   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
  74
  75 version 0.5.5:
  76
  77   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
  78   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
  79   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
  80   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
  81   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
  82   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
  83   - FDC fixes for Win98
  84
  85 version 0.5.4:
  86
  87   - qemu-fast fixes
  88   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
  89   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
  90   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
  91   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
  92   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
  93   - User mode network stack
  94   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
  95   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
  96
  97 version 0.5.3:
  98
  99   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 100   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 101   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 102   - CPU interrupt fixes
 103   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 104   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 105   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 106   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 107   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 108     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 109   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 110   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 111   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 112   - graphical x86 linux loader
 113   - command line monitor
 114   - generic removable device support
 115   - support of CD-ROM change
 116   - multiple network interface support
 117   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 118   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 119   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 120   - VM save/restore commands
 121   - new timer API
 122   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 123   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 124
 125 version 0.5.2:
 126
 127   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 128   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 129     switching tasks
 130   - improved qemu-fast speed
 131   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 132     softmmu mode).
 133   - fixed IO checking
 134   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 135   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 136   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 137   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 138   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 139     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 140   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 141   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 142   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 143   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 144   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 145   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 146   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 147   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 148   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 149
 150 version 0.5.1:
 151
 152   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 153   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 154   - A20 support
 155   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 156   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 157   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 158   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 159   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 160   - Full task switching/task gate support
 161   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 162   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 163   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 164
 165 version 0.5.0:
 166
 167   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 168   - graphical display with SDL
 169   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 170   - popw (%esp) fix
 171   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 172   - added real mode support
 173   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 174   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 175   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 176   - multi-target build
 177   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 178   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 179   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 180   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 181   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 182   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 183   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 184   - added man page
 185   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 186
 187 version 0.4.3:
 188
 189   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 190   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 191   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 192   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 193
 194 version 0.4.2:
 195
 196  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 197  - IDE emulation support
 198  - initial GDB stub support
 199  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 200  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 201  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 202
 203 version 0.4.1:
 204
 205  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 206  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 207  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 208  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 209
 210 version 0.4:
 211
 212  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 213  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 214  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 215  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 216  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 217
 218 version 0.3:
 219
 220  - initial support for ARM emulation
 221  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 222  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 223  - initial ARM port
 224  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 225  - generic ioctl number conversion
 226  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 227
 228 version 0.2:
 229
 230  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 231  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 232  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 233  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 234  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 235  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 236  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 237  - added HLT instruction
 238  - LRET instruction fix.
 239  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 240  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 241  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 242  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 243  - self-modifying code support
 244  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 245  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 246  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 247  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 248  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 249
 250 version 0.1.6:
 251
 252  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 253    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 254  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 255  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 256    translation cache is not flushed)
 257  - RH9 fixes
 258
 259 version 0.1.5:
 260
 261  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 262  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 263  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 264  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 265  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 266
 267 version 0.1.4:
 268
 269  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 270    executables in wine).
 271  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 272  - added iret instruction.
 273  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 274
 275 version 0.1.3:
 276
 277  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 278  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 279  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 280  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 281  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 282  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 283  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 284  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 285  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 286  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 287  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 288  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 289  - poll() fix
 290
 291 version 0.1.2:
 292
 293  - compile fixes
 294  - xlat instruction
 295  - xchg instruction memory lock
 296  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 297    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 298    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 299
 300 version 0.1.1:
 301
 302  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 303  - added -s and -L options
 304  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 305  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 306
 307 version 0.1:
 308
 309  - initial public release.