Changelog

   1   - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
   2   - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
   3   - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
   4
   5 version 0.9.1:
   6
   7   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
   8   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
   9   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
  10   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
  11   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
  12   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
  13   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
  14   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  15   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
  16   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
  17   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
  18   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
  19   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
  20   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
  21   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
  22   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
  23   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
  24   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
  25   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  26   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
  27   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
  28   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
  29   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  30
  31 version 0.9.0:
  32
  33   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  34   - Async file I/O API
  35   - New qcow2 disk image format
  36   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  37   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  38   - SMM support
  39   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  40   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  41   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  42   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  43   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  44   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  45   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  46   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  47   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
  48
  49 version 0.8.2:
  50
  51   - ACPI support
  52   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
  53   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
  54   - VNC server fixes
  55   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
  56   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
  57   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  58   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  59   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
  60   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  61   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
  62   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
  63   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
  64   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
  65   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
  66   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
  67
  68 version 0.8.1:
  69
  70   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  71   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  72   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  73   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  74   - SSE3 support
  75   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
  76   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  77   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  78   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  79   - USB fixes
  80   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  81
  82 version 0.8.0:
  83
  84   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  85     cpu (Paul Brook)
  86   - SMP support
  87   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  88   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  89   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  90   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  91   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  92   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  93   - Initial USB support
  94   - Linux host serial port access
  95   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  96   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  97   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  98   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  99   - NX bit support
 100   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
 101   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
 102     (Johannes Schindelin)
 103
 104 version 0.7.2:
 105
 106   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
 107   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
 108   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
 109   - better user net performances
 110
 111 version 0.7.1:
 112
 113   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
 114   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
 115     N. Oleynik)
 116   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
 117   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
 118   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
 119   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
 120   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
 121   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
 122
 123 version 0.7.0:
 124
 125   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 126   - user mode networking bug fix
 127   - undocumented FPU ops support
 128   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 129   - 'pidfile' option
 130   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 131   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 132   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 133   - added generic 64 bit target support
 134   - x86_64 target support
 135   - initial APIC support
 136   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 137   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 138   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 139   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
 140   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 141   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 142   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 143   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 144   - Samba 3 support
 145   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 146   - generic FPU emulation code
 147   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 148
 149 version 0.6.1:
 150
 151   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 152   - Virtual console support
 153   - Better monitor line edition
 154   - New block device layer
 155   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 156     transparent decompression
 157   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 158   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 159   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 160   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 161   - Support for not executable data sections
 162   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 163   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 164     Wormley)
 165   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 166     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 167   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 168   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 169   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 170   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 171   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 172   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 173     the virtual consoles.
 174   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 175   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 176   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 177   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 178   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 179   - VGA font change fix
 180   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 181
 182 version 0.6.0:
 183
 184   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 185   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 186   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 187   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 188   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 189   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 190   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 191   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 192   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 193   - PCI support
 194   - NE2K PCI support
 195   - dummy VGA PCI support
 196   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 197   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 198   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 199   - added '-localtime' option
 200   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 201   - APM and system shutdown support
 202   - Fixed system reset
 203   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 204   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 205   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 206   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 207   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 208
 209 version 0.5.5:
 210
 211   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 212   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 213   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 214   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 215   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 216   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 217   - FDC fixes for Win98
 218
 219 version 0.5.4:
 220
 221   - qemu-fast fixes
 222   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 223   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 224   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 225   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 226   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 227   - User mode network stack
 228   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 229   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 230
 231 version 0.5.3:
 232
 233   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 234   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 235   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 236   - CPU interrupt fixes
 237   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 238   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 239   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 240   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 241   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 242     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 243   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 244   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 245   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 246   - graphical x86 linux loader
 247   - command line monitor
 248   - generic removable device support
 249   - support of CD-ROM change
 250   - multiple network interface support
 251   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 252   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 253   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 254   - VM save/restore commands
 255   - new timer API
 256   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 257   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 258
 259 version 0.5.2:
 260
 261   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 262   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 263     switching tasks
 264   - improved qemu-fast speed
 265   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 266     softmmu mode).
 267   - fixed IO checking
 268   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 269   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 270   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 271   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 272   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 273     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 274   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 275   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 276   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 277   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 278   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 279   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 280   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 281   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 282   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 283
 284 version 0.5.1:
 285
 286   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 287   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 288   - A20 support
 289   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 290   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 291   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 292   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 293   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 294   - Full task switching/task gate support
 295   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 296   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 297   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 298
 299 version 0.5.0:
 300
 301   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 302   - graphical display with SDL
 303   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 304   - popw (%esp) fix
 305   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 306   - added real mode support
 307   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 308   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 309   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 310   - multi-target build
 311   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 312   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 313   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 314   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 315   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 316   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 317   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 318   - added man page
 319   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 320
 321 version 0.4.3:
 322
 323   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 324   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 325   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 326   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 327
 328 version 0.4.2:
 329
 330  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 331  - IDE emulation support
 332  - initial GDB stub support
 333  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 334  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 335  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 336
 337 version 0.4.1:
 338
 339  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 340  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 341  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 342  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 343
 344 version 0.4:
 345
 346  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 347  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 348  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 349  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 350  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 351
 352 version 0.3:
 353
 354  - initial support for ARM emulation
 355  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 356  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 357  - initial ARM port
 358  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 359  - generic ioctl number conversion
 360  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 361
 362 version 0.2:
 363
 364  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 365  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 366  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 367  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 368  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 369  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 370  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 371  - added HLT instruction
 372  - LRET instruction fix.
 373  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 374  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 375  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 376  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 377  - self-modifying code support
 378  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 379  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 380  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 381  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 382  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 383
 384 version 0.1.6:
 385
 386  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 387    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 388  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 389  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 390    translation cache is not flushed)
 391  - RH9 fixes
 392
 393 version 0.1.5:
 394
 395  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 396  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 397  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 398  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 399  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 400
 401 version 0.1.4:
 402
 403  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 404    executables in wine).
 405  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 406  - added iret instruction.
 407  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 408
 409 version 0.1.3:
 410
 411  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 412  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 413  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 414  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 415  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 416  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 417  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 418  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 419  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 420  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 421  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 422  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 423  - poll() fix
 424
 425 version 0.1.2:
 426
 427  - compile fixes
 428  - xlat instruction
 429  - xchg instruction memory lock
 430  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 431    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 432    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 433
 434 version 0.1.1:
 435
 436  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 437  - added -s and -L options
 438  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 439  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 440
 441 version 0.1:
 442
 443  - initial public release.