Changelog

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