+version 0.5.1:
+
+ - float access fixes when using soft mmu
+ - PC emulation support on PowerPC
+ - A20 support
+ - IDE CD-ROM emulation
+ - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
+ - SB16 emulation (malc)
+ - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
+ - Port I/Os use TSS io map
+ - Full task switching/task gate support
+ - added verr, verw, arpl
+
+version 0.5.0:
+
+ - full hardware level VGA emulation
+ - graphical display with SDL
+ - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
+ - popw (%esp) fix
+ - mov to/from segment data width fix
+ - added real mode support
+ - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
+ - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
+ - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
+ - multi-target build
+ - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
+ - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
+ - correct single stepping thru string operations
+ - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
+ - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
+ - automatic IDE geometry detection
+ - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
+ - added man page
+ - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
+
+version 0.4.3:
+
+ - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
+ - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
+ - sparc and Alpha host fixes
+ - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
+
+version 0.4.2:
+
+ - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
+ - IDE emulation support
+ - initial GDB stub support
+ - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
+ - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
+ - SMP kernels can at least be booted
+
+version 0.4.1:
+
+ - more accurate timer support in vl.
+ - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
+ - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
+ - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
+
+version 0.4:
+
+ - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
+ - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
+ - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
+ - fixed popl (%esp) case
+ - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
+
+version 0.3:
+
+ - initial support for ARM emulation
+ - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
+ - added FPU register save in signal emulation
+ - initial ARM port
+ - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
+ - generic ioctl number conversion
+ - fixed ioctl type conversion
+
+version 0.2:
+
+ - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
+ - flock support (Rusty Russell)
+ - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
+ - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
+ - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
+ - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
+ - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
+ - added HLT instruction
+ - LRET instruction fix.
+ - added GPF generation for I/Os.
+ - added INT3 and TF flag support.
+ - SHL instruction C flag fix.
+ - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
+ - self-modifying code support
+ - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
+ - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
+ - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
+ - faster segment load in vm86 mode
+ - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
+
+version 0.1.6:
+
+ - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
+ ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
+ - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
+ - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
+ translation cache is not flushed)
+ - RH9 fixes
+
+version 0.1.5:
+
+ - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
+ - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
+ - removed bfd.h dependancy
+ - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
+ - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
+
+version 0.1.4:
+
+ - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
+ executables in wine).
+ - fixed push/pop fs/gs
+ - added iret instruction.
+ - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
+
+version 0.1.3:
+
+ - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
+ - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
+ - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
+ - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
+ - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
+ - poll() fix
+
+version 0.1.2:
+
+ - compile fixes
+ - xlat instruction
+ - xchg instruction memory lock
+ - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
+ DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
+ Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
+
+version 0.1.1:
+
+ - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
+ - added -s and -L options
+ - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
+ - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
+
version 0.1:
- initial public release.
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