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1version 0.10.5:
2 - kvm: trim unsupported cpu features from cpuid (Avi Kivity)
3 - kvm: provide a better error message for -smp > 1 (Mark McLoughlin)
4 - Remove initrd printfs (Richard Jones)
5 - Initial variables found by valgrind (Jean-Christophe Dubois)
6 - Fix -initrd with > 4GB guests (Glauber Costa)
7 - Fix busy loop on live migration for certain platforms (Uri Lublin)
8 - Remove GCC 3.x requirements from docs (Hollis Blanchard)
9 - ETRAX: fixes for kernel command line, ethernet address, bmi (Edgar Iglesias)
10 - CRIS: Fix bmi (Edgar Iglesias)
11 - Fix bounce buffer errors (Avi Kivity)
12 - Fix regression in -kernel (Anthony Liguori)
13
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14version 0.10.4:
15 - Improve block range checks to remove integer overflow (Kevin Wolf)
16 - e1000: do not re-init PCI config space 0 (Amit Shah)
17 - fix AIO deletion race (Alex Graf)
18 - reset option roms on reboot (Glauber Costa)
19 - fix qcow2 corruption in cluster freeing (Gleb Natapov)
20 - Enable power button event generation (Gleb Natapov)
21
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22version 0.10.3:
23 - fix AIO cancellations (Avi Kivity)
24 - fix live migration error path on incoming
25 - avoid SEGV on pci hotplug failure (Chris Wright)
26 - fix serial option in -drive
27 - support DDIM for option roms (Glauber Costa)
28 - avoid fork/exec on pre-2.6.27 kernels with KVM (Jan Kiszka)
29 - block-vpc: don't silently create smaller images than requested (Kevin Wolf)
30 - Fix non-ACPI timer interrupt routing (Beth Kon)
31 - hpet: fix emulation of HPET_TN_SETVAL (Jan Kiszka)
32 - kvm: fix cpuid initialization (Jan Kiszka)
33 - qcow2: fix corruption on little endian hosts (Kevin Wolf)
34 - avoid leaing memory on hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin)
35 - fix savevm/migration after hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin)
36 - Fix keyboard mapping on newer Xords with non-default keymaps (balrog)
37 - Make PCI config status register read-only (Anthony Liguori)
38 - Fix crash on resolution change -> screen dump -> vga redraw (Avi Kivity)
39
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40version 0.10.2:
41
42 - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
43 - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
44 - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
45 - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
46 - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
47 - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
48 - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
49 - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
50 - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
51 - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
52 - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
53 - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
54 - fix VGA regression (malc)
55
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56version 0.10.1:
57
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58 - virtio-net: allow masking of notifications on empty queue (Alex Williamson)
59 - e1000: fix rx descriptor low threshold logic (Alex Willaimson)
60 - x86 tcg: add NULL checks to lsl instruction (Jan Kiszka)
61 - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with -std-vga and Windows (Avi Kivity)
62 - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with Ubuntu installations (Glauber Costa)
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63 - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
64 - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
65 (Marcelo Tosatti)
66 - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
67 a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
68 - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
69 - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
70 - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
71 host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
72 loop (Aurelien Jarno)
73 - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
74 - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
75 - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
76 - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
77 - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
78 - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
79 - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
80 - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
81 (Ryan Harper)
82
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83version 0.10.0:
84
85 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
86 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
87 - BSD userspace emulation
88 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
89 - GDB XML register description support
90 - Intel e1000 emulation
91 - HPET emulation
92 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
93 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
94 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
95 - PCI hotplug support
96 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
97 - Curses display support
98 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
99 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
100 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
101 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
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102 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
103 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
104 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
c30bb264 105 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
0e674589 106 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
107 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
b4171e4b 108 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
57cd6e97 109
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110version 0.9.1:
111
430415f2 112 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
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113 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
114 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
54d43f70 115 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
33d68b5f 116 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
115646b6 117 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
5a5012ec 118 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
02645926 119 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
b65df015 120 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
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121 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
122 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
123 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
6ada7453 124 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
239fbd86 125 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
981623fe 126 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
cb33da57 127 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
a76dc35a 128 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
93a0019b 129 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
02645926 130 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
9ee6e8bb 131 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
d66846a1 132 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
6d1f1778 133 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
d66846a1 134 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
ad0504b5 135
7b9c30c5 136version 0.9.0:
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138 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
139 - Async file I/O API
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140 - New qcow2 disk image format
141 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
f0e42172 142 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
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143 - SMM support
144 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
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145 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
146 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
284ec167 147 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
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148 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
149 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
150 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
151 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
152 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
83f64091 153
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154version 0.8.2:
155
856860f5 156 - ACPI support
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157 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
158 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
159 - VNC server fixes
160 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
9529ebc2 161 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
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162 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
163 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
63301264 164 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
beac80cd 165 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
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166 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
167 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
168 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
169 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
170 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
171 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
a08beb33 172
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173version 0.8.1:
174
175 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
176 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
fd06c375 177 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
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178 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
179 - SSE3 support
9529ebc2 180 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
27c7ca7e 181 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
24236869 182 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
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183 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
184 - USB fixes
185 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
210fe0be 186
90dc3b39 187version 0.8.0:
1d14ffa9 188
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189 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
190 cpu (Paul Brook)
191 - SMP support
1d14ffa9 192 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
6f5f11a5 193 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
1d14ffa9 194 - DirectSound driver (malc)
d5d11eac 195 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
6f5f11a5 196 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
1d14ffa9 197 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bb36d470 198 - Initial USB support
f8d179e3 199 - Linux host serial port access
e57a8c0e 200 - Linux host low level parallel port access
41d03949 201 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
ea31eb5b 202 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
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203 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
204 - NX bit support
ba3c64fb 205 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
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206 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
207 (Johannes Schindelin)
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a7c15abb 209version 0.7.2:
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211 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
212 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
213 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
214 - better user net performances
215
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216version 0.7.1:
217
218 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
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219 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
220 N. Oleynik)
8979b227 221 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
3475187d 222 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
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223 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
224 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
33d08439 225 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
a7c15abb 226 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
de167e41 227
a8753c34 228version 0.7.0:
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230 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
231 - user mode networking bug fix
232 - undocumented FPU ops support
a07167d3 233 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
6a78ece5 234 - 'pidfile' option
585d0ed9 235 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
3d11d0eb 236 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
808c4954 237 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bdfaf503 238 - added generic 64 bit target support
a8753c34 239 - x86_64 target support
bdfaf503 240 - initial APIC support
664e0f19 241 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
6508fe59 242 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
99c475ab 243 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
a8753c34 244 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
99c475ab 245 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
b7bcbe95 246 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
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247 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
248 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
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249 - Samba 3 support
250 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
a8753c34 251 - generic FPU emulation code
6a0f9e82 252 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bed5cd80 253
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254version 0.6.1:
255
256 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
257 - Virtual console support
05d5818c 258 - Better monitor line edition
5fafdf24 259 - New block device layer
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260 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
261 transparent decompression
262 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
263 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
c7f74643 264 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
9bf05444 265 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
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266 - Support for not executable data sections
267 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
268 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
269 Wormley)
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270 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
271 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
272 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
e95c8d51 273 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
2518bd0d 274 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
d63d307f 275 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
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276 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
277 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
278 the virtual consoles.
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279 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
280 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
281 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
d75d9f6b 282 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
61a8c4ec 283 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
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284 - VGA font change fix
285 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
49b3b9fb 286
d08c49aa 287version 0.6.0:
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288
289 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
290 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
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291 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
292 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
293 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
294 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
295 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
296 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
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297 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
298 - PCI support
299 - NE2K PCI support
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300 - dummy VGA PCI support
301 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
b54ad049 302 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
15aeac38 303 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
be3edd95 304 - added '-localtime' option
7e71f16f 305 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
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306 - APM and system shutdown support
307 - Fixed system reset
70867490 308 - Support for other PC BIOSes
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309 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
310 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
d08c49aa 311 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
7e71f16f 312 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
44c513c4 313
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314version 0.5.5:
315
316 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
317 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
318 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
a1b74fe8 319 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
66201e2d 320 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
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321 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
322 - FDC fixes for Win98
b06eddd3 323
2f0c934e 324version 0.5.4:
3b46e624 325
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326 - qemu-fast fixes
327 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
328 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
329 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
330 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
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331 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
332 - User mode network stack
333 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
52c00a5f 334 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
2f0c934e 335
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336version 0.5.3:
337
6411cfb6 338 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
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339 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
340 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
341 - CPU interrupt fixes
342 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
22a46c55 343 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
94fe4f9f 344 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
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345 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
346 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
347 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
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348 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
349 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
350 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
351 - graphical x86 linux loader
5fafdf24 352 - command line monitor
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353 - generic removable device support
354 - support of CD-ROM change
355 - multiple network interface support
bc51c5c9 356 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
d9d849fc 357 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
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358 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
359 - VM save/restore commands
360 - new timer API
361 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
67b915a5 362 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bb27c190 363
efe160c5 364version 0.5.2:
2be3bc02 365
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366 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
367 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
368 switching tasks
369 - improved qemu-fast speed
370 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
371 softmmu mode).
372 - fixed IO checking
373 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
374 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
375 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
376 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
377 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
378 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
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379 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
380 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
381 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
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382 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
383 - fixed xadd same reg bug
384 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
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385 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
386 - task gate and NT flag fixes
e98c8721 387 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
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9c3ad574 389version 0.5.1:
3b46e624 390
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391 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
392 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
393 - A20 support
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394 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
395 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
396 - SB16 emulation (malc)
397 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
398 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
399 - Full task switching/task gate support
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400 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
401 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
3811a291 402 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
9c3ad574 403
285dc330 404version 0.5.0:
3b46e624 405
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406 - full hardware level VGA emulation
407 - graphical display with SDL
408 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
409 - popw (%esp) fix
410 - mov to/from segment data width fix
411 - added real mode support
0806e3f6 412 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
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413 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
414 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
415 - multi-target build
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416 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
417 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
418 - correct single stepping thru string operations
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419 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
420 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
421 - automatic IDE geometry detection
285dc330 422 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
0806e3f6 423 - added man page
9c3ad574 424 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
9368caf6 425
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426version 0.4.3:
427
428 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
429 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
430 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
431 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
432
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433version 0.4.2:
434
435 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
436 - IDE emulation support
437 - initial GDB stub support
438 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
9d0fe224 439 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
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440 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
441
d5a0b50c 442version 0.4.1:
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444 - more accurate timer support in vl.
445 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
446 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
447 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
448
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449version 0.4:
450
451 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
452 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
453 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
454 - fixed popl (%esp) case
1eb20527 455 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
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411bffc4 457version 0.3:
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459 - initial support for ARM emulation
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460 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
461 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
322d0c66 462 - initial ARM port
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463 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
464 - generic ioctl number conversion
465 - fixed ioctl type conversion
411bffc4 466
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467version 0.2:
468
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469 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
470 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
471 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
472 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
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473 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
474 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
475 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
86840ae2 476 - added HLT instruction
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477 - LRET instruction fix.
478 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
479 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
480 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
481 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
482 - self-modifying code support
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483 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
484 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
485 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
486 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
487 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
3c51961e 488
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489version 0.1.6:
490
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491 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
492 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
66cd5846 493 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
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494 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
495 translation cache is not flushed)
496 - RH9 fixes
66cd5846 497
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498version 0.1.5:
499
500 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
501 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
502 - removed bfd.h dependancy
503 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
504 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
505
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506version 0.1.4:
507
508 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
509 executables in wine).
510 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
511 - added iret instruction.
27c75a9a 512 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
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514version 0.1.3:
515
516 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
517 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
518 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
519 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
520 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
521 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
522 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
523 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
524 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
525 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
526 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
527 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
528 - poll() fix
5fafdf24 529
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530version 0.1.2:
531
532 - compile fixes
533 - xlat instruction
534 - xchg instruction memory lock
535 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
536 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
537 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
538
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539version 0.1.1:
540
541 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
542 - added -s and -L options
543 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bc8a22cc 544 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
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546version 0.1:
547
548 - initial public release.