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