Changelog

   1 version 0.8.1:
   2
   3   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
   4   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
   5   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
   6   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
   7   - SSE3 support
   8   - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
   9   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  10   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  11   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  12   - USB fixes
  13   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  14
  15 version 0.8.0:
  16
  17   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  18     cpu (Paul Brook)
  19   - SMP support
  20   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  21   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  22   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  23   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  24   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  25   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  26   - Initial USB support
  27   - Linux host serial port access
  28   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  29   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  30   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  31   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  32   - NX bit support
  33   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  34   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  35     (Johannes Schindelin)
  36
  37 version 0.7.2:
  38
  39   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  40   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  41   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  42   - better user net performances
  43
  44 version 0.7.1:
  45
  46   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  47   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  48     N. Oleynik)
  49   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  50   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  51   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  52   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  53   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  54   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  55
  56 version 0.7.0:
  57
  58   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  59   - user mode networking bug fix
  60   - undocumented FPU ops support
  61   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  62   - 'pidfile' option
  63   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  64   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  65   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  66   - added generic 64 bit target support
  67   - x86_64 target support
  68   - initial APIC support
  69   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  70   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  71   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  72   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  73   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  74   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  75   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
  76   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
  77   - Samba 3 support
  78   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  79   - generic FPU emulation code
  80   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
  81
  82 version 0.6.1:
  83
  84   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  85   - Virtual console support
  86   - Better monitor line edition
  87   - New block device layer
  88   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
  89     transparent decompression
  90   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
  91   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
  92   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
  93   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
  94   - Support for not executable data sections
  95   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
  96   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
  97     Wormley)
  98   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
  99     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 100   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 101   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 102   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 103   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 104   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 105   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 106     the virtual consoles.
 107   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 108   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 109   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 110   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 111   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 112   - VGA font change fix
 113   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 114
 115 version 0.6.0:
 116
 117   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 118   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 119   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 120   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 121   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 122   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 123   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 124   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 125   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 126   - PCI support
 127   - NE2K PCI support
 128   - dummy VGA PCI support
 129   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 130   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 131   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 132   - added '-localtime' option
 133   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 134   - APM and system shutdown support
 135   - Fixed system reset
 136   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 137   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 138   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 139   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 140   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 141
 142 version 0.5.5:
 143
 144   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 145   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 146   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 147   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 148   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 149   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 150   - FDC fixes for Win98
 151
 152 version 0.5.4:
 153
 154   - qemu-fast fixes
 155   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 156   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 157   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 158   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 159   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 160   - User mode network stack
 161   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 162   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 163
 164 version 0.5.3:
 165
 166   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 167   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 168   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 169   - CPU interrupt fixes
 170   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 171   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 172   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 173   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 174   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 175     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 176   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 177   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 178   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 179   - graphical x86 linux loader
 180   - command line monitor
 181   - generic removable device support
 182   - support of CD-ROM change
 183   - multiple network interface support
 184   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 185   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 186   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 187   - VM save/restore commands
 188   - new timer API
 189   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 190   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 191
 192 version 0.5.2:
 193
 194   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 195   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 196     switching tasks
 197   - improved qemu-fast speed
 198   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 199     softmmu mode).
 200   - fixed IO checking
 201   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 202   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 203   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 204   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 205   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 206     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 207   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 208   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 209   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 210   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 211   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 212   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 213   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 214   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 215   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 216
 217 version 0.5.1:
 218
 219   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 220   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 221   - A20 support
 222   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 223   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 224   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 225   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 226   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 227   - Full task switching/task gate support
 228   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 229   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 230   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 231
 232 version 0.5.0:
 233
 234   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 235   - graphical display with SDL
 236   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 237   - popw (%esp) fix
 238   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 239   - added real mode support
 240   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 241   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 242   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 243   - multi-target build
 244   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 245   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 246   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 247   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 248   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 249   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 250   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 251   - added man page
 252   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 253
 254 version 0.4.3:
 255
 256   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 257   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 258   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 259   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 260
 261 version 0.4.2:
 262
 263  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 264  - IDE emulation support
 265  - initial GDB stub support
 266  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 267  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 268  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 269
 270 version 0.4.1:
 271
 272  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 273  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 274  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 275  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 276
 277 version 0.4:
 278
 279  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 280  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 281  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 282  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 283  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 284
 285 version 0.3:
 286
 287  - initial support for ARM emulation
 288  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 289  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 290  - initial ARM port
 291  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 292  - generic ioctl number conversion
 293  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 294
 295 version 0.2:
 296
 297  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 298  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 299  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 300  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 301  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 302  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 303  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 304  - added HLT instruction
 305  - LRET instruction fix.
 306  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 307  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 308  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 309  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 310  - self-modifying code support
 311  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 312  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 313  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 314  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 315  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 316
 317 version 0.1.6:
 318
 319  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 320    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 321  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 322  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 323    translation cache is not flushed)
 324  - RH9 fixes
 325
 326 version 0.1.5:
 327
 328  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 329  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 330  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 331  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 332  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 333
 334 version 0.1.4:
 335
 336  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 337    executables in wine).
 338  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 339  - added iret instruction.
 340  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 341
 342 version 0.1.3:
 343
 344  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 345  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 346  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 347  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 348  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 349  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 350  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 351  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 352  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 353  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 354  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 355  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 356  - poll() fix
 357
 358 version 0.1.2:
 359
 360  - compile fixes
 361  - xlat instruction
 362  - xchg instruction memory lock
 363  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 364    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 365    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 366
 367 version 0.1.1:
 368
 369  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 370  - added -s and -L options
 371  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 372  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 373
 374 version 0.1:
 375
 376  - initial public release.