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