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1version 0.12.0:
2
3 - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0
4 - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori)
5 - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino)
6 - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino)
7 - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino)
8 - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori)
9 - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
10 - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela)
11 - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie)
12 - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori)
13 - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann)
14 - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann)
15 - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann)
16 - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann)
17 - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino)
18 - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
19 - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf)
20 - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
21 - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini)
22 - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka)
23 - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori)
24 - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf)
25 - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf)
26 - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf)
27 - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara)
28 - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock)
29 - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson)
30 - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil)
31 - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd)
32 - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara)
33 - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
34
35version 0.12.0-rc2:
36
37 - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
38 - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
39 - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
40 - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
41 - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
42 - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
43 - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann)
44 - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
45 - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
46 - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
47 - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
48 - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann)
49 - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
50 - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
51 - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
52 - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
53 - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
54 - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
55 - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
56 - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
57 - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster)
58 - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
59 - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster)
60 - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
61 - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
62 - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
63 - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
64 - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
65 - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
66 - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
67 - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
68 - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
69 - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)
70
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71version 0.10.2:
72
73 - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
74 - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
75 - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
76 - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
77 - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
78 - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
79 - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
80 - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
81 - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
82 - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
83 - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
84 - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
85 - fix VGA regression (malc)
86
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87version 0.10.1:
88
89 - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
90 - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
91 (Marcelo Tosatti)
92 - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
93 a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
94 - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
95 - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
96 - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
97 host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
98 loop (Aurelien Jarno)
99 - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
100 - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
101 - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
102 - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
103 - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
104 - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
105 - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
106 - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
107 (Ryan Harper)
108
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109version 0.10.0:
110
111 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
112 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
113 - BSD userspace emulation
114 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
115 - GDB XML register description support
116 - Intel e1000 emulation
117 - HPET emulation
118 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
119 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
120 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
121 - PCI hotplug support
122 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
123 - Curses display support
124 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
125 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
126 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
127 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
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128 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
129 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
130 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
c30bb264 131 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
0e674589 132 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
133 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
b4171e4b 134 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
57cd6e97 135
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136version 0.9.1:
137
430415f2 138 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
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139 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
140 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
54d43f70 141 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
33d68b5f 142 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
115646b6 143 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
5a5012ec 144 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
02645926 145 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
b65df015 146 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
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147 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
148 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
149 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
6ada7453 150 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
239fbd86 151 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
981623fe 152 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
cb33da57 153 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
a76dc35a 154 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
93a0019b 155 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
02645926 156 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
9ee6e8bb 157 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
d66846a1 158 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
6d1f1778 159 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
d66846a1 160 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
ad0504b5 161
7b9c30c5 162version 0.9.0:
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164 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
165 - Async file I/O API
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166 - New qcow2 disk image format
167 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
f0e42172 168 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
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169 - SMM support
170 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
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171 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
172 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
284ec167 173 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
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174 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
175 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
176 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
177 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
178 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
83f64091 179
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180version 0.8.2:
181
856860f5 182 - ACPI support
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183 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
184 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
185 - VNC server fixes
186 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
9529ebc2 187 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
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188 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
189 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
63301264 190 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
beac80cd 191 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
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192 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
193 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
194 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
195 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
196 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
197 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
a08beb33 198
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199version 0.8.1:
200
201 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
202 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
fd06c375 203 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
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204 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
205 - SSE3 support
9529ebc2 206 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
27c7ca7e 207 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
24236869 208 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
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209 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
210 - USB fixes
211 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
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90dc3b39 213version 0.8.0:
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215 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
216 cpu (Paul Brook)
217 - SMP support
1d14ffa9 218 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
6f5f11a5 219 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
1d14ffa9 220 - DirectSound driver (malc)
d5d11eac 221 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
6f5f11a5 222 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
1d14ffa9 223 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bb36d470 224 - Initial USB support
f8d179e3 225 - Linux host serial port access
e57a8c0e 226 - Linux host low level parallel port access
41d03949 227 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
ea31eb5b 228 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
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229 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
230 - NX bit support
ba3c64fb 231 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
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232 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
233 (Johannes Schindelin)
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a7c15abb 235version 0.7.2:
3b46e624 236
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237 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
238 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
239 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
240 - better user net performances
241
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242version 0.7.1:
243
244 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
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245 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
246 N. Oleynik)
8979b227 247 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
3475187d 248 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
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249 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
250 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
33d08439 251 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
a7c15abb 252 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
de167e41 253
a8753c34 254version 0.7.0:
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256 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
257 - user mode networking bug fix
258 - undocumented FPU ops support
a07167d3 259 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
6a78ece5 260 - 'pidfile' option
585d0ed9 261 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
3d11d0eb 262 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
808c4954 263 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bdfaf503 264 - added generic 64 bit target support
a8753c34 265 - x86_64 target support
bdfaf503 266 - initial APIC support
664e0f19 267 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
6508fe59 268 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
99c475ab 269 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
a8753c34 270 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
99c475ab 271 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
b7bcbe95 272 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
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273 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
274 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
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275 - Samba 3 support
276 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
a8753c34 277 - generic FPU emulation code
6a0f9e82 278 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bed5cd80 279
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280version 0.6.1:
281
282 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
283 - Virtual console support
05d5818c 284 - Better monitor line edition
5fafdf24 285 - New block device layer
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286 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
287 transparent decompression
288 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
289 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
c7f74643 290 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
9bf05444 291 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
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292 - Support for not executable data sections
293 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
294 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
295 Wormley)
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296 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
297 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
298 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
e95c8d51 299 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
2518bd0d 300 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
d63d307f 301 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
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302 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
303 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
304 the virtual consoles.
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305 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
306 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
307 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
d75d9f6b 308 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
61a8c4ec 309 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
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310 - VGA font change fix
311 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
49b3b9fb 312
d08c49aa 313version 0.6.0:
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314
315 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
316 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
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317 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
318 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
319 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
320 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
321 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
322 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
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323 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
324 - PCI support
325 - NE2K PCI support
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326 - dummy VGA PCI support
327 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
b54ad049 328 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
15aeac38 329 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
be3edd95 330 - added '-localtime' option
7e71f16f 331 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
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332 - APM and system shutdown support
333 - Fixed system reset
70867490 334 - Support for other PC BIOSes
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335 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
336 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
d08c49aa 337 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
7e71f16f 338 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
44c513c4 339
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340version 0.5.5:
341
342 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
343 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
344 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
a1b74fe8 345 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
66201e2d 346 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
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347 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
348 - FDC fixes for Win98
b06eddd3 349
2f0c934e 350version 0.5.4:
3b46e624 351
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352 - qemu-fast fixes
353 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
354 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
355 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
356 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
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357 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
358 - User mode network stack
359 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
52c00a5f 360 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
2f0c934e 361
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362version 0.5.3:
363
6411cfb6 364 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
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365 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
366 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
367 - CPU interrupt fixes
368 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
22a46c55 369 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
94fe4f9f 370 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
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371 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
372 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
373 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
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374 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
375 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
376 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
377 - graphical x86 linux loader
5fafdf24 378 - command line monitor
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379 - generic removable device support
380 - support of CD-ROM change
381 - multiple network interface support
bc51c5c9 382 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
d9d849fc 383 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
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384 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
385 - VM save/restore commands
386 - new timer API
387 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
67b915a5 388 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bb27c190 389
efe160c5 390version 0.5.2:
2be3bc02 391
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392 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
393 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
394 switching tasks
395 - improved qemu-fast speed
396 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
397 softmmu mode).
398 - fixed IO checking
399 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
400 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
401 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
402 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
403 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
404 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
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405 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
406 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
407 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
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408 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
409 - fixed xadd same reg bug
410 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
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411 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
412 - task gate and NT flag fixes
e98c8721 413 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
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9c3ad574 415version 0.5.1:
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417 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
418 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
419 - A20 support
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420 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
421 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
422 - SB16 emulation (malc)
423 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
424 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
425 - Full task switching/task gate support
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426 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
427 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
3811a291 428 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
9c3ad574 429
285dc330 430version 0.5.0:
3b46e624 431
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432 - full hardware level VGA emulation
433 - graphical display with SDL
434 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
435 - popw (%esp) fix
436 - mov to/from segment data width fix
437 - added real mode support
0806e3f6 438 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
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439 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
440 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
441 - multi-target build
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442 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
443 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
444 - correct single stepping thru string operations
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445 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
446 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
447 - automatic IDE geometry detection
285dc330 448 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
0806e3f6 449 - added man page
9c3ad574 450 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
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452version 0.4.3:
453
454 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
455 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
456 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
457 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
458
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459version 0.4.2:
460
461 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
462 - IDE emulation support
463 - initial GDB stub support
464 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
9d0fe224 465 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
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466 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
467
d5a0b50c 468version 0.4.1:
3b46e624 469
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470 - more accurate timer support in vl.
471 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
472 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
473 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
474
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475version 0.4:
476
477 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
478 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
479 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
480 - fixed popl (%esp) case
1eb20527 481 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
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411bffc4 483version 0.3:
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485 - initial support for ARM emulation
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486 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
487 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
322d0c66 488 - initial ARM port
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489 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
490 - generic ioctl number conversion
491 - fixed ioctl type conversion
411bffc4 492
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493version 0.2:
494
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495 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
496 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
497 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
498 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
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499 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
500 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
501 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
86840ae2 502 - added HLT instruction
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503 - LRET instruction fix.
504 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
505 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
506 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
507 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
508 - self-modifying code support
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509 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
510 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
511 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
512 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
513 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
3c51961e 514
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515version 0.1.6:
516
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517 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
518 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
66cd5846 519 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
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520 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
521 translation cache is not flushed)
522 - RH9 fixes
66cd5846 523
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524version 0.1.5:
525
526 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
527 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
528 - removed bfd.h dependancy
529 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
530 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
531
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532version 0.1.4:
533
534 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
535 executables in wine).
536 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
537 - added iret instruction.
27c75a9a 538 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
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540version 0.1.3:
541
542 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
543 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
544 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
545 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
546 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
547 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
548 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
549 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
550 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
551 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
552 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
553 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
554 - poll() fix
5fafdf24 555
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556version 0.1.2:
557
558 - compile fixes
559 - xlat instruction
560 - xchg instruction memory lock
561 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
562 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
563 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
564
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565version 0.1.1:
566
567 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
568 - added -s and -L options
569 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bc8a22cc 570 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
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572version 0.1:
573
574 - initial public release.