Changelog

   1   - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
   2   - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
   3   - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
   4   - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
   5
   6 version 0.9.1:
   7
   8   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
   9   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
  10   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
  11   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
  12   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
  13   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
  14   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
  15   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  16   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
  17   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
  18   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
  19   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
  20   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
  21   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
  22   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
  23   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
  24   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
  25   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
  26   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  27   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
  28   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
  29   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
  30   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
  31
  32 version 0.9.0:
  33
  34   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
  35   - Async file I/O API
  36   - New qcow2 disk image format
  37   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
  38   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
  39   - SMM support
  40   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
  41   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
  42   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
  43   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
  44   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
  45   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
  46   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
  47   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
  48   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
  49
  50 version 0.8.2:
  51
  52   - ACPI support
  53   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
  54   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
  55   - VNC server fixes
  56   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
  57   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
  58   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
  59   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
  60   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
  61   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
  62   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
  63   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
  64   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
  65   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
  66   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
  67   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
  68
  69 version 0.8.1:
  70
  71   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
  72   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
  73   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
  74   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
  75   - SSE3 support
  76   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
  77   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
  78   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
  79   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
  80   - USB fixes
  81   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
  82
  83 version 0.8.0:
  84
  85   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
  86     cpu (Paul Brook)
  87   - SMP support
  88   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
  89   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
  90   - DirectSound driver (malc)
  91   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
  92   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
  93   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
  94   - Initial USB support
  95   - Linux host serial port access
  96   - Linux host low level parallel port access
  97   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
  98   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
  99   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
 100   - NX bit support
 101   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
 102   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
 103     (Johannes Schindelin)
 104
 105 version 0.7.2:
 106
 107   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
 108   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
 109   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
 110   - better user net performances
 111
 112 version 0.7.1:
 113
 114   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
 115   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
 116     N. Oleynik)
 117   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
 118   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
 119   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
 120   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
 121   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
 122   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
 123
 124 version 0.7.0:
 125
 126   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
 127   - user mode networking bug fix
 128   - undocumented FPU ops support
 129   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
 130   - 'pidfile' option
 131   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
 132   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
 133   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
 134   - added generic 64 bit target support
 135   - x86_64 target support
 136   - initial APIC support
 137   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
 138   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
 139   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
 140   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
 141   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
 142   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
 143   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
 144   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
 145   - Samba 3 support
 146   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 147   - generic FPU emulation code
 148   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
 149
 150 version 0.6.1:
 151
 152   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 153   - Virtual console support
 154   - Better monitor line edition
 155   - New block device layer
 156   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
 157     transparent decompression
 158   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
 159   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
 160   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
 161   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
 162   - Support for not executable data sections
 163   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
 164   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
 165     Wormley)
 166   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
 167     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
 168   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
 169   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
 170   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
 171   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
 172   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
 173   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
 174     the virtual consoles.
 175   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
 176   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
 177   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
 178   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
 179   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
 180   - VGA font change fix
 181   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
 182
 183 version 0.6.0:
 184
 185   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
 186   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
 187   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
 188   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
 189   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
 190   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
 191   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
 192   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
 193   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
 194   - PCI support
 195   - NE2K PCI support
 196   - dummy VGA PCI support
 197   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
 198   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
 199   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
 200   - added '-localtime' option
 201   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
 202   - APM and system shutdown support
 203   - Fixed system reset
 204   - Support for other PC BIOSes
 205   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
 206   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
 207   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
 208   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
 209
 210 version 0.5.5:
 211
 212   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
 213   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
 214   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
 215   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
 216   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
 217   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
 218   - FDC fixes for Win98
 219
 220 version 0.5.4:
 221
 222   - qemu-fast fixes
 223   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
 224   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
 225   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
 226   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
 227   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
 228   - User mode network stack
 229   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
 230   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
 231
 232 version 0.5.3:
 233
 234   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
 235   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
 236   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
 237   - CPU interrupt fixes
 238   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
 239   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
 240   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
 241   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
 242   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
 243     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
 244   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
 245   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
 246   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
 247   - graphical x86 linux loader
 248   - command line monitor
 249   - generic removable device support
 250   - support of CD-ROM change
 251   - multiple network interface support
 252   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
 253   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
 254   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
 255   - VM save/restore commands
 256   - new timer API
 257   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
 258   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
 259
 260 version 0.5.2:
 261
 262   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
 263   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
 264     switching tasks
 265   - improved qemu-fast speed
 266   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
 267     softmmu mode).
 268   - fixed IO checking
 269   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
 270   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
 271   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
 272   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
 273   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
 274     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
 275   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
 276   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
 277   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
 278   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
 279   - fixed xadd same reg bug
 280   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
 281   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
 282   - task gate and NT flag fixes
 283   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
 284
 285 version 0.5.1:
 286
 287   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
 288   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
 289   - A20 support
 290   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
 291   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
 292   - SB16 emulation (malc)
 293   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
 294   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
 295   - Full task switching/task gate support
 296   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
 297   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
 298   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
 299
 300 version 0.5.0:
 301
 302   - full hardware level VGA emulation
 303   - graphical display with SDL
 304   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
 305   - popw (%esp) fix
 306   - mov to/from segment data width fix
 307   - added real mode support
 308   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
 309   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
 310   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
 311   - multi-target build
 312   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
 313   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
 314   - correct single stepping thru string operations
 315   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
 316   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
 317   - automatic IDE geometry detection
 318   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
 319   - added man page
 320   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
 321
 322 version 0.4.3:
 323
 324   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
 325   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
 326   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
 327   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
 328
 329 version 0.4.2:
 330
 331  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
 332  - IDE emulation support
 333  - initial GDB stub support
 334  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
 335  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
 336  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
 337
 338 version 0.4.1:
 339
 340  - more accurate timer support in vl.
 341  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
 342  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
 343  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
 344
 345 version 0.4:
 346
 347  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
 348  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
 349  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
 350  - fixed popl (%esp) case
 351  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
 352
 353 version 0.3:
 354
 355  - initial support for ARM emulation
 356  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
 357  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
 358  - initial ARM port
 359  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
 360  - generic ioctl number conversion
 361  - fixed ioctl type conversion
 362
 363 version 0.2:
 364
 365  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
 366  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
 367  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
 368  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
 369  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
 370  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
 371  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
 372  - added HLT instruction
 373  - LRET instruction fix.
 374  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
 375  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
 376  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
 377  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
 378  - self-modifying code support
 379  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
 380  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
 381  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
 382  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
 383  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
 384
 385 version 0.1.6:
 386
 387  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
 388    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
 389  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
 390  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
 391    translation cache is not flushed)
 392  - RH9 fixes
 393
 394 version 0.1.5:
 395
 396  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
 397  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
 398  - removed bfd.h dependancy
 399  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
 400  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
 401
 402 version 0.1.4:
 403
 404  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
 405    executables in wine).
 406  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
 407  - added iret instruction.
 408  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
 409
 410 version 0.1.3:
 411
 412  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
 413  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 414  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 415  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 416  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 417  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 418  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
 419  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
 420  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
 421  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
 422  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
 423  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
 424  - poll() fix
 425
 426 version 0.1.2:
 427
 428  - compile fixes
 429  - xlat instruction
 430  - xchg instruction memory lock
 431  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
 432    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
 433    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
 434
 435 version 0.1.1:
 436
 437  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
 438  - added -s and -L options
 439  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
 440  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
 441
 442 version 0.1:
 443
 444  - initial public release.