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