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Peter Maydell5f04e362011-06-09 11:43:12 +01001This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
2For changelog information for later releases, see
3http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for
4more detailed information.
5
6
Anthony Liguori0aced4e2009-12-19 08:24:34 -06007version 0.12.0:
8
9 - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0
10 - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori)
11 - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino)
12 - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino)
13 - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino)
14 - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori)
15 - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
16 - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela)
17 - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie)
18 - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori)
19 - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann)
20 - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann)
21 - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann)
22 - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann)
23 - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino)
24 - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
25 - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf)
26 - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
27 - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini)
28 - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka)
29 - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori)
30 - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf)
31 - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf)
32 - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf)
33 - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara)
34 - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock)
35 - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson)
36 - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil)
37 - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd)
38 - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara)
39 - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
40
41version 0.12.0-rc2:
42
43 - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
44 - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
45 - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
46 - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
47 - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
48 - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
49 - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann)
50 - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
51 - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
52 - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
53 - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
54 - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann)
55 - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
56 - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
57 - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
58 - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
59 - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
60 - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
61 - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
62 - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
63 - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster)
64 - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
65 - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster)
66 - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
67 - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
68 - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
69 - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
70 - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
71 - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
72 - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
73 - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
74 - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
75 - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)
76
aliguori669b92e2009-04-07 02:19:41 +000077version 0.10.2:
78
79 - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
80 - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
81 - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
82 - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
83 - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
84 - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
85 - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
86 - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
87 - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
88 - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
89 - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
90 - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
91 - fix VGA regression (malc)
92
aliguori82e52672009-03-13 16:22:41 +000093version 0.10.1:
94
95 - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
96 - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
97 (Marcelo Tosatti)
98 - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
99 a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
100 - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
101 - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
102 - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
103 host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
104 loop (Aurelien Jarno)
105 - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
106 - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
107 - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
108 - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
109 - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
110 - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
111 - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
112 - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
113 (Ryan Harper)
114
aliguorib4171e42009-03-04 22:47:59 +0000115version 0.10.0:
116
117 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
118 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
119 - BSD userspace emulation
120 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
121 - GDB XML register description support
122 - Intel e1000 emulation
123 - HPET emulation
124 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
125 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
126 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
127 - PCI hotplug support
128 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
129 - Curses display support
130 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
131 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
132 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
133 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
balrog57cd6e92008-05-07 12:23:32 +0000134 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
135 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
136 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
balrogc30bb262008-05-18 13:01:40 +0000137 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
malc0e674582008-06-08 01:55:07 +0000138 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
139 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
aliguorib4171e42009-03-04 22:47:59 +0000140 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
balrog57cd6e92008-05-07 12:23:32 +0000141
bellardbfe31212008-01-06 17:10:54 +0000142version 0.9.1:
143
ths430415f2007-02-23 00:34:02 +0000144 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
thsad0504b2007-02-20 00:18:37 +0000145 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
146 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
ths54d43f72007-02-28 22:01:13 +0000147 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
ths33d68b52007-03-18 00:30:29 +0000148 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
blueswir1115646b2007-10-07 10:00:55 +0000149 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
ths5a5012e2007-05-07 13:55:33 +0000150 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
balrog02645922007-11-03 12:50:46 +0000151 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
pbrookb65df012007-05-26 16:56:01 +0000152 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
ths1cd548e2007-06-25 11:41:37 +0000153 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
154 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
155 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
ths6ada7452007-07-31 23:28:53 +0000156 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
ths239fbd82007-09-23 15:30:28 +0000157 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
ths981623f2007-10-08 13:40:13 +0000158 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
blueswir1cb33da52007-10-09 16:34:29 +0000159 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
thsa76dc352007-11-11 00:16:10 +0000160 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
ths93a00192007-11-01 00:11:47 +0000161 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
balrog02645922007-11-03 12:50:46 +0000162 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
pbrook9ee6e8b2007-11-11 00:04:49 +0000163 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
balrogd66846a2008-01-05 18:53:35 +0000164 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
balrog6d1f1772008-01-05 19:29:17 +0000165 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
balrogd66846a2008-01-05 18:53:35 +0000166 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
thsad0504b2007-02-20 00:18:37 +0000167
bellard7b9c30c2007-02-05 20:46:55 +0000168version 0.9.0:
bellard83f64092006-08-01 16:21:11 +0000169
170 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
171 - Async file I/O API
bellard13a2e802006-08-06 14:50:31 +0000172 - New qcow2 disk image format
173 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
bellardf0e42172006-08-19 12:38:38 +0000174 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
bellard4f3baa42006-09-24 18:49:55 +0000175 - SMM support
176 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
ths9dbd25e2007-01-17 21:32:49 +0000177 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
178 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
ths284ec162007-01-18 22:14:53 +0000179 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellard7b9c30c2007-02-05 20:46:55 +0000180 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
181 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
182 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
183 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
184 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
bellard83f64092006-08-01 16:21:11 +0000185
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +0000186version 0.8.2:
187
bellard856860f2006-06-14 18:18:38 +0000188 - ACPI support
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +0000189 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
190 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
191 - VNC server fixes
192 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
bellard9529ebc2007-02-15 22:49:45 +0000193 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
bellard1579bde2006-06-25 14:50:00 +0000194 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
195 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
bellard63301262006-07-16 18:56:50 +0000196 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
bellardbeac80c2006-06-26 20:08:57 +0000197 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
bellard63301262006-07-16 18:56:50 +0000198 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
199 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
200 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
201 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
202 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
203 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +0000204
bellard210fe0b2006-04-12 21:09:31 +0000205version 0.8.1:
206
207 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
208 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
bellardfd06c372006-04-24 21:58:30 +0000209 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
bellarda8ca6322006-04-25 22:36:31 +0000210 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
211 - SSE3 support
bellard9529ebc2007-02-15 22:49:45 +0000212 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
bellard27c7ca72006-04-27 21:32:09 +0000213 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
bellard24236862006-04-30 21:28:36 +0000214 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
bellard691fce42006-05-03 20:15:47 +0000215 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
216 - USB fixes
217 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
bellard210fe0b2006-04-12 21:09:31 +0000218
bellard90dc3b32005-12-19 22:28:04 +0000219version 0.8.0:
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000220
bellardb5ff1b32005-11-26 10:38:39 +0000221 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
222 cpu (Paul Brook)
223 - SMP support
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000224 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +0000225 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000226 - DirectSound driver (malc)
bellardd5d11ea2005-10-30 21:38:50 +0000227 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +0000228 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000229 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bellardbb36d472005-11-05 14:22:28 +0000230 - Initial USB support
bellardf8d179e2005-11-08 22:30:36 +0000231 - Linux host serial port access
bellarde57a8c02005-11-10 23:58:52 +0000232 - Linux host low level parallel port access
bellard41d03942005-11-15 23:02:53 +0000233 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
bellardea31eb52005-12-06 21:42:03 +0000234 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
bellardf881a0d2005-12-05 20:00:00 +0000235 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
236 - NX bit support
bellardba3c64f2005-12-05 20:31:52 +0000237 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
bellard2c6cadd2005-12-18 18:31:45 +0000238 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
239 (Johannes Schindelin)
bellardf8d179e2005-11-08 22:30:36 +0000240
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000241version 0.7.2:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000242
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000243 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
244 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
245 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
246 - better user net performances
247
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +0000248version 0.7.1:
249
250 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellarda09db212005-04-30 16:10:35 +0000251 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
252 N. Oleynik)
bellard8979b222005-07-02 14:02:54 +0000253 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
bellard34751872005-07-02 14:31:34 +0000254 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
bellardb1957752005-07-02 15:39:14 +0000255 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
256 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
bellard33d08432005-07-03 16:45:42 +0000257 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000258 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +0000259
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000260version 0.7.0:
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +0000261
262 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
263 - user mode networking bug fix
264 - undocumented FPU ops support
bellarda07167d2004-11-30 23:41:30 +0000265 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
bellard6a78ece2004-12-08 23:47:30 +0000266 - 'pidfile' option
bellard585d0ed2004-12-12 11:24:44 +0000267 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellard3d11d0e2004-12-12 16:56:30 +0000268 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
bellard808c4952004-12-19 23:33:47 +0000269 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +0000270 - added generic 64 bit target support
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000271 - x86_64 target support
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +0000272 - initial APIC support
bellard664e0f12005-01-08 18:58:29 +0000273 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
bellard6508fe52005-01-15 12:02:56 +0000274 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +0000275 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000276 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +0000277 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
bellardb7bcbe92005-02-22 19:27:29 +0000278 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000279 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
280 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
bellard232ba5a2005-03-01 22:30:05 +0000281 - Samba 3 support
282 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000283 - generic FPU emulation code
bellard6a0f9e82005-04-27 20:17:58 +0000284 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +0000285
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +0000286version 0.6.1:
287
288 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
289 - Virtual console support
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +0000290 - Better monitor line edition
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000291 - New block device layer
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +0000292 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
293 transparent decompression
294 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
295 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
bellardc7f74642004-08-24 21:57:12 +0000296 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
bellard9bf05442004-08-25 22:12:49 +0000297 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
bellard16c460b2004-09-29 21:56:51 +0000298 - Support for not executable data sections
299 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
300 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
301 Wormley)
bellard525d67b2004-09-30 18:58:48 +0000302 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
303 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
304 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
bellarde95c8d52004-09-30 22:22:08 +0000305 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
bellard2518bd02004-09-30 22:35:13 +0000306 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
bellardd63d3072004-10-03 13:29:03 +0000307 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
bellardf9859312004-10-03 14:33:10 +0000308 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
309 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
310 the virtual consoles.
bellard655aa522004-10-09 16:48:17 +0000311 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
312 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
313 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
bellardd75d9f62004-10-09 17:20:54 +0000314 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
bellard61a8c4e2004-11-14 15:39:16 +0000315 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
bellardc76338c2004-11-14 19:52:18 +0000316 - VGA font change fix
317 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +0000318
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +0000319version 0.6.0:
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +0000320
321 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
322 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
bellardf528bfd2004-05-16 15:57:26 +0000323 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
324 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
325 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
326 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
327 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
328 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
bellard69b91032004-05-18 23:05:28 +0000329 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
330 - PCI support
331 - NE2K PCI support
bellard43990592004-05-20 13:24:37 +0000332 - dummy VGA PCI support
333 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
bellardb54ad042004-05-20 13:42:52 +0000334 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard15aeac32004-05-20 16:12:05 +0000335 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
bellardbe3edd92004-06-03 12:48:45 +0000336 - added '-localtime' option
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000337 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
bellard987c1c62004-06-20 13:02:46 +0000338 - APM and system shutdown support
339 - Fixed system reset
bellard70867492004-06-20 13:42:16 +0000340 - Support for other PC BIOSes
bellard638260e2004-06-21 19:54:19 +0000341 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
342 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +0000343 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000344 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +0000345
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000346version 0.5.5:
347
348 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
349 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
350 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000351 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
bellard66201e22004-05-04 01:29:51 +0000352 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000353 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
354 - FDC fixes for Win98
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000355
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000356version 0.5.4:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000357
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000358 - qemu-fast fixes
359 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
360 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
361 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
362 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
bellard91caaa62004-04-22 21:36:13 +0000363 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
364 - User mode network stack
365 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard52c00a52004-04-25 21:27:03 +0000366 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000367
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000368version 0.5.3:
369
bellard6411cfb2004-02-06 19:57:09 +0000370 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000371 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
372 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
373 - CPU interrupt fixes
374 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000375 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000376 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000377 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
378 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
379 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000380 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
381 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
382 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
383 - graphical x86 linux loader
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000384 - command line monitor
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000385 - generic removable device support
386 - support of CD-ROM change
387 - multiple network interface support
bellardbc51c5c2004-03-17 23:46:04 +0000388 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellardd9d849f2004-03-21 17:12:48 +0000389 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000390 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
391 - VM save/restore commands
392 - new timer API
393 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
bellard67b915a2004-03-31 23:37:16 +0000394 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000395
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000396version 0.5.2:
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000397
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000398 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
399 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
400 switching tasks
401 - improved qemu-fast speed
402 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
403 softmmu mode).
404 - fixed IO checking
405 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
406 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
407 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
408 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
409 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
410 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
bellard728c9fd2004-01-05 00:08:14 +0000411 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
412 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
413 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000414 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
415 - fixed xadd same reg bug
416 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
bellard3d4b4c02004-01-25 15:22:15 +0000417 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
418 - task gate and NT flag fixes
bellarde98c8722004-01-25 15:26:12 +0000419 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000420
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000421version 0.5.1:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000422
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000423 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
424 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
425 - A20 support
bellard181f1552003-11-13 01:47:16 +0000426 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
427 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
428 - SB16 emulation (malc)
429 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
430 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
431 - Full task switching/task gate support
bellard67867302003-11-23 17:05:30 +0000432 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
433 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard3811a292004-01-04 15:27:57 +0000434 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000435
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000436version 0.5.0:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000437
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000438 - full hardware level VGA emulation
439 - graphical display with SDL
440 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
441 - popw (%esp) fix
442 - mov to/from segment data width fix
443 - added real mode support
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000444 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000445 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
446 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
447 - multi-target build
bellardfcf8fcc2003-09-17 22:56:56 +0000448 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
449 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
450 - correct single stepping thru string operations
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000451 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
452 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
453 - automatic IDE geometry detection
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000454 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000455 - added man page
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000456 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000457
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000458version 0.4.3:
459
460 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
461 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
462 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
463 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
464
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000465version 0.4.2:
466
467 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
468 - IDE emulation support
469 - initial GDB stub support
470 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000471 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000472 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
473
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000474version 0.4.1:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000475
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000476 - more accurate timer support in vl.
477 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
478 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
479 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
480
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000481version 0.4:
482
483 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
484 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
485 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
486 - fixed popl (%esp) case
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000487 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000488
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000489version 0.3:
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000490
491 - initial support for ARM emulation
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000492 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
493 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
bellard322d0c62003-06-15 23:29:28 +0000494 - initial ARM port
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000495 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
496 - generic ioctl number conversion
497 - fixed ioctl type conversion
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000498
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000499version 0.2:
500
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000501 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
502 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
503 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
504 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000505 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
506 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
507 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
bellard86840ae2003-05-08 15:30:27 +0000508 - added HLT instruction
bellard70e19862003-05-14 19:02:49 +0000509 - LRET instruction fix.
510 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
511 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
512 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
513 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
514 - self-modifying code support
bellarddf0f11a2003-05-28 00:27:57 +0000515 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
516 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
517 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
518 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
519 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000520
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000521version 0.1.6:
522
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000523 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
524 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000525 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000526 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
527 translation cache is not flushed)
528 - RH9 fixes
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000529
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000530version 0.1.5:
531
532 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
533 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
Stefan Weilcbae0862011-04-28 17:20:25 +0200534 - removed bfd.h dependency
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000535 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
536 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
537
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000538version 0.1.4:
539
540 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
541 executables in wine).
542 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
543 - added iret instruction.
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000544 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000545
546version 0.1.3:
547
548 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
549 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
550 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
551 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
552 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
553 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
554 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
555 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
556 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
557 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
558 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
559 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
560 - poll() fix
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000561
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000562version 0.1.2:
563
564 - compile fixes
565 - xlat instruction
566 - xchg instruction memory lock
567 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
568 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
569 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
570
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000571version 0.1.1:
572
573 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
574 - added -s and -L options
575 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000576 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000577
bellard3ef693a2003-03-23 20:17:16 +0000578version 0.1:
579
580 - initial public release.