Changelog

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