Changelog

   1 version 0.8.3:
   2
   3   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
   4   - Async file I/O API
   5
   6 version 0.8.2:
   7
   8   - ACPI support
   9   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
  10   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
  11   - VNC server fixes
  12   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
  13   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)
  14   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  15   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  16   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
  17   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  18   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
  19   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
  20   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
  21   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
  22   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
  23   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
  24
  25 version 0.8.1:
  26
  27   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  28   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  29   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  30   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  31   - SSE3 support
  32   - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)
  33   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  34   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  35   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  36   - USB fixes
  37   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  38
  39 version 0.8.0:
  40
  41   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  42     cpu (Paul Brook)
  43   - SMP support
  44   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  45   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  46   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  47   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  48   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  49   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  50   - Initial USB support
  51   - Linux host serial port access
  52   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  53   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  54   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  55   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
  56   - NX bit support
  57   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
  58   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
  59     (Johannes Schindelin)
  60
  61 version 0.7.2:
  62
  63   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
  64   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
  65   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
  66   - better user net performances
  67
  68 version 0.7.1:
  69
  70   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
  71   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
  72     N. Oleynik)
  73   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
  74   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
  75   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
  76   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
  77   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
  78   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
  79
  80 version 0.7.0:
  81
  82   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
  83   - user mode networking bug fix
  84   - undocumented FPU ops support
  85   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
  86   - 'pidfile' option
  87   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
  88   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
  89   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
  90   - added generic 64 bit target support
  91   - x86_64 target support
  92   - initial APIC support
  93   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
  94   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
  95   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
  96   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
  97   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
  98   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
  99   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 100   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 101   - Samba 3 support
 102   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 103   - generic FPU emulation code
 104   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 105
 106 version 0.6.1:
 107
 108   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 109   - Virtual console support
 110   - Better monitor line edition
 111   - New block device layer
 112   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 113     transparent decompression
 114   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 115   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 116   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 117   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 118   - Support for not executable data sections
 119   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 120   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 121     Wormley)
 122   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 123     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 124   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 125   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 126   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 127   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 128   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 129   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 130     the virtual consoles.
 131   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 132   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 133   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 134   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 135   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 136   - VGA font change fix
 137   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 138
 139 version 0.6.0:
 140
 141   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 142   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 143   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 144   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 145   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 146   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 147   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 148   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 149   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 150   - PCI support
 151   - NE2K PCI support
 152   - dummy VGA PCI support
 153   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 154   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 155   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 156   - added '-localtime' option
 157   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 158   - APM and system shutdown support
 159   - Fixed system reset
 160   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 161   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 162   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 163   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 164   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 165
 166 version 0.5.5:
 167
 168   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 169   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 170   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 171   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 172   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 173   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 174   - FDC fixes for Win98
 175
 176 version 0.5.4:
 177
 178   - qemu-fast fixes
 179   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 180   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 181   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 182   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 183   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 184   - User mode network stack
 185   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 186   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 187
 188 version 0.5.3:
 189
 190   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 191   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 192   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 193   - CPU interrupt fixes
 194   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 195   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 196   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 197   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 198   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 199     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 200   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 201   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 202   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 203   - graphical x86 linux loader
 204   - command line monitor
 205   - generic removable device support
 206   - support of CD-ROM change
 207   - multiple network interface support
 208   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 209   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 210   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 211   - VM save/restore commands
 212   - new timer API
 213   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 214   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 215
 216 version 0.5.2:
 217
 218   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 219   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 220     switching tasks
 221   - improved qemu-fast speed
 222   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 223     softmmu mode).
 224   - fixed IO checking
 225   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 226   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 227   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 228   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 229   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 230     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 231   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 232   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 233   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 234   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 235   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 236   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 237   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 238   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 239   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 240
 241 version 0.5.1:
 242
 243   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 244   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 245   - A20 support
 246   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 247   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 248   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 249   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 250   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 251   - Full task switching/task gate support
 252   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 253   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 254   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 255
 256 version 0.5.0:
 257
 258   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 259   - graphical display with SDL
 260   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 261   - popw (%esp) fix
 262   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 263   - added real mode support
 264   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 265   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 266   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 267   - multi-target build
 268   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 269   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 270   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 271   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 272   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 273   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 274   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 275   - added man page
 276   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 277
 278 version 0.4.3:
 279
 280   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 281   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 282   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 283   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 284
 285 version 0.4.2:
 286
 287  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 288  - IDE emulation support
 289  - initial GDB stub support
 290  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 291  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 292  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 293
 294 version 0.4.1:
 295
 296  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 297  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 298  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 299  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 300
 301 version 0.4:
 302
 303  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 304  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 305  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 306  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 307  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 308
 309 version 0.3:
 310
 311  - initial support for ARM emulation
 312  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 313  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 314  - initial ARM port
 315  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 316  - generic ioctl number conversion
 317  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 318
 319 version 0.2:
 320
 321  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 322  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 323  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 324  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 325  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 326  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 327  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 328  - added HLT instruction
 329  - LRET instruction fix.
 330  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 331  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 332  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 333  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 334  - self-modifying code support
 335  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 336  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 337  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 338  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 339  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 340
 341 version 0.1.6:
 342
 343  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 344    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 345  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 346  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 347    translation cache is not flushed)
 348  - RH9 fixes
 349
 350 version 0.1.5:
 351
 352  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 353  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 354  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 355  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 356  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 357
 358 version 0.1.4:
 359
 360  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 361    executables in wine).
 362  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 363  - added iret instruction.
 364  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 365
 366 version 0.1.3:
 367
 368  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 369  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 370  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 371  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 372  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 373  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 374  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 375  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 376  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 377  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 378  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 379  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 380  - poll() fix
 381
 382 version 0.1.2:
 383
 384  - compile fixes
 385  - xlat instruction
 386  - xchg instruction memory lock
 387  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 388    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 389    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 390
 391 version 0.1.1:
 392
 393  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 394  - added -s and -L options
 395  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 396  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 397
 398 version 0.1:
 399
 400  - initial public release.