Changelog

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