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+version 0.5.4:
+  
+  - qemu-fast fixes
+  - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
+  - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
+  - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
+  - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
+  - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
+  - User mode network stack
+  - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
+  - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
+
+version 0.5.3:
+
+  - added Bochs VESA VBE support
+  - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
+  - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
+  - CPU interrupt fixes
+  - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
+  - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
+  - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
+  - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
+  - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
+    in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
+  - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
+  - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
+  - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
+  - graphical x86 linux loader
+  - command line monitor 
+  - generic removable device support
+  - support of CD-ROM change
+  - multiple network interface support
+  - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
+  - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
+  - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
+  - VM save/restore commands
+  - new timer API
+  - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
+  - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
+
+version 0.5.2:
+
+  - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
+  - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
+    switching tasks
+  - improved qemu-fast speed
+  - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
+    softmmu mode).
+  - fixed IO checking
+  - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
+  - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
+  - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
+  - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
+  - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
+    when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
+  - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
+  - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
+  - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
+  - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
+  - fixed xadd same reg bug
+  - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
+  - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
+  - task gate and NT flag fixes
+  - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
+
 version 0.5.1:
   
   - float access fixes when using soft mmu