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aliguori669b92e2009-04-07 02:19:41 +00001version 0.10.2:
2
3 - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
4 - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
5 - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
6 - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
7 - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
8 - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
9 - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
10 - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
11 - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
12 - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
13 - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
14 - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
15 - fix VGA regression (malc)
16
aliguori82e52672009-03-13 16:22:41 +000017version 0.10.1:
18
19 - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
20 - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
21 (Marcelo Tosatti)
22 - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info). This series of changes added
23 a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
24 - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
25 - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
26 - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request. When using TCG and a dynticks
27 host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
28 loop (Aurelien Jarno)
29 - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
30 - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
31 - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
32 - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
33 - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
34 - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
35 - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
36 - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
37 (Ryan Harper)
38
aliguorib4171e42009-03-04 22:47:59 +000039version 0.10.0:
40
41 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
42 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
43 - BSD userspace emulation
44 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
45 - GDB XML register description support
46 - Intel e1000 emulation
47 - HPET emulation
48 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
49 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
50 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
51 - PCI hotplug support
52 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
53 - Curses display support
54 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
55 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
56 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
57 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
balrog57cd6e92008-05-07 12:23:32 +000058 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
59 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
60 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
balrogc30bb262008-05-18 13:01:40 +000061 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
malc0e674582008-06-08 01:55:07 +000062 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
63 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
aliguorib4171e42009-03-04 22:47:59 +000064 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
balrog57cd6e92008-05-07 12:23:32 +000065
bellardbfe31212008-01-06 17:10:54 +000066version 0.9.1:
67
ths430415f2007-02-23 00:34:02 +000068 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
thsad0504b2007-02-20 00:18:37 +000069 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
70 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
ths54d43f72007-02-28 22:01:13 +000071 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
ths33d68b52007-03-18 00:30:29 +000072 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
blueswir1115646b2007-10-07 10:00:55 +000073 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
ths5a5012e2007-05-07 13:55:33 +000074 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
balrog02645922007-11-03 12:50:46 +000075 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
pbrookb65df012007-05-26 16:56:01 +000076 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
ths1cd548e2007-06-25 11:41:37 +000077 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
78 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
79 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
ths6ada7452007-07-31 23:28:53 +000080 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
ths239fbd82007-09-23 15:30:28 +000081 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
ths981623f2007-10-08 13:40:13 +000082 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
blueswir1cb33da52007-10-09 16:34:29 +000083 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
thsa76dc352007-11-11 00:16:10 +000084 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
ths93a00192007-11-01 00:11:47 +000085 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
balrog02645922007-11-03 12:50:46 +000086 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
pbrook9ee6e8b2007-11-11 00:04:49 +000087 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
balrogd66846a2008-01-05 18:53:35 +000088 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
balrog6d1f1772008-01-05 19:29:17 +000089 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
balrogd66846a2008-01-05 18:53:35 +000090 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
thsad0504b2007-02-20 00:18:37 +000091
bellard7b9c30c2007-02-05 20:46:55 +000092version 0.9.0:
bellard83f64092006-08-01 16:21:11 +000093
94 - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
95 - Async file I/O API
bellard13a2e802006-08-06 14:50:31 +000096 - New qcow2 disk image format
97 - Support of multiple VM snapshots
bellardf0e42172006-08-19 12:38:38 +000098 - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
bellard4f3baa42006-09-24 18:49:55 +000099 - SMM support
100 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
ths9dbd25e2007-01-17 21:32:49 +0000101 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
102 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
ths284ec162007-01-18 22:14:53 +0000103 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellard7b9c30c2007-02-05 20:46:55 +0000104 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
105 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
106 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
107 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
108 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
bellard83f64092006-08-01 16:21:11 +0000109
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +0000110version 0.8.2:
111
bellard856860f2006-06-14 18:18:38 +0000112 - ACPI support
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +0000113 - PC VGA BIOS fixes
114 - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
115 - VNC server fixes
116 - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
bellard9529ebc2007-02-15 22:49:45 +0000117 - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
bellard1579bde2006-06-25 14:50:00 +0000118 - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
119 - USB updates (Paul Brook)
bellard63301262006-07-16 18:56:50 +0000120 - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
bellardbeac80c2006-06-26 20:08:57 +0000121 - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
bellard63301262006-07-16 18:56:50 +0000122 - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
123 - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
124 - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
125 - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
126 - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
127 - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
bellarda08beb32006-06-14 17:32:56 +0000128
bellard210fe0b2006-04-12 21:09:31 +0000129version 0.8.1:
130
131 - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
132 - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
bellardfd06c372006-04-24 21:58:30 +0000133 - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
bellarda8ca6322006-04-25 22:36:31 +0000134 - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
135 - SSE3 support
bellard9529ebc2007-02-15 22:49:45 +0000136 - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
bellard27c7ca72006-04-27 21:32:09 +0000137 - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
bellard24236862006-04-30 21:28:36 +0000138 - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
bellard691fce42006-05-03 20:15:47 +0000139 - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
140 - USB fixes
141 - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
bellard210fe0b2006-04-12 21:09:31 +0000142
bellard90dc3b32005-12-19 22:28:04 +0000143version 0.8.0:
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000144
bellardb5ff1b32005-11-26 10:38:39 +0000145 - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
146 cpu (Paul Brook)
147 - SMP support
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000148 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +0000149 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000150 - DirectSound driver (malc)
bellardd5d11ea2005-10-30 21:38:50 +0000151 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +0000152 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +0000153 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bellardbb36d472005-11-05 14:22:28 +0000154 - Initial USB support
bellardf8d179e2005-11-08 22:30:36 +0000155 - Linux host serial port access
bellarde57a8c02005-11-10 23:58:52 +0000156 - Linux host low level parallel port access
bellard41d03942005-11-15 23:02:53 +0000157 - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
bellardea31eb52005-12-06 21:42:03 +0000158 - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
bellardf881a0d2005-12-05 20:00:00 +0000159 - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
160 - NX bit support
bellardba3c64f2005-12-05 20:31:52 +0000161 - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
bellard2c6cadd2005-12-18 18:31:45 +0000162 - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
163 (Johannes Schindelin)
bellardf8d179e2005-11-08 22:30:36 +0000164
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000165version 0.7.2:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000166
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000167 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
168 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
169 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
170 - better user net performances
171
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +0000172version 0.7.1:
173
174 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellarda09db212005-04-30 16:10:35 +0000175 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
176 N. Oleynik)
bellard8979b222005-07-02 14:02:54 +0000177 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
bellard34751872005-07-02 14:31:34 +0000178 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
bellardb1957752005-07-02 15:39:14 +0000179 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
180 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
bellard33d08432005-07-03 16:45:42 +0000181 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +0000182 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +0000183
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000184version 0.7.0:
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +0000185
186 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
187 - user mode networking bug fix
188 - undocumented FPU ops support
bellarda07167d2004-11-30 23:41:30 +0000189 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
bellard6a78ece2004-12-08 23:47:30 +0000190 - 'pidfile' option
bellard585d0ed2004-12-12 11:24:44 +0000191 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellard3d11d0e2004-12-12 16:56:30 +0000192 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
bellard808c4952004-12-19 23:33:47 +0000193 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +0000194 - added generic 64 bit target support
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000195 - x86_64 target support
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +0000196 - initial APIC support
bellard664e0f12005-01-08 18:58:29 +0000197 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
bellard6508fe52005-01-15 12:02:56 +0000198 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +0000199 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000200 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +0000201 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
bellardb7bcbe92005-02-22 19:27:29 +0000202 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000203 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
204 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
bellard232ba5a2005-03-01 22:30:05 +0000205 - Samba 3 support
206 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +0000207 - generic FPU emulation code
bellard6a0f9e82005-04-27 20:17:58 +0000208 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +0000209
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +0000210version 0.6.1:
211
212 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
213 - Virtual console support
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +0000214 - Better monitor line edition
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000215 - New block device layer
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +0000216 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
217 transparent decompression
218 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
219 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
bellardc7f74642004-08-24 21:57:12 +0000220 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
bellard9bf05442004-08-25 22:12:49 +0000221 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
bellard16c460b2004-09-29 21:56:51 +0000222 - Support for not executable data sections
223 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
224 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
225 Wormley)
bellard525d67b2004-09-30 18:58:48 +0000226 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
227 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
228 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
bellarde95c8d52004-09-30 22:22:08 +0000229 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
bellard2518bd02004-09-30 22:35:13 +0000230 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
bellardd63d3072004-10-03 13:29:03 +0000231 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
bellardf9859312004-10-03 14:33:10 +0000232 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
233 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
234 the virtual consoles.
bellard655aa522004-10-09 16:48:17 +0000235 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
236 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
237 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
bellardd75d9f62004-10-09 17:20:54 +0000238 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
bellard61a8c4e2004-11-14 15:39:16 +0000239 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
bellardc76338c2004-11-14 19:52:18 +0000240 - VGA font change fix
241 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +0000242
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +0000243version 0.6.0:
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +0000244
245 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
246 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
bellardf528bfd2004-05-16 15:57:26 +0000247 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
248 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
249 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
250 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
251 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
252 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
bellard69b91032004-05-18 23:05:28 +0000253 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
254 - PCI support
255 - NE2K PCI support
bellard43990592004-05-20 13:24:37 +0000256 - dummy VGA PCI support
257 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
bellardb54ad042004-05-20 13:42:52 +0000258 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard15aeac32004-05-20 16:12:05 +0000259 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
bellardbe3edd92004-06-03 12:48:45 +0000260 - added '-localtime' option
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000261 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
bellard987c1c62004-06-20 13:02:46 +0000262 - APM and system shutdown support
263 - Fixed system reset
bellard70867492004-06-20 13:42:16 +0000264 - Support for other PC BIOSes
bellard638260e2004-06-21 19:54:19 +0000265 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
266 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +0000267 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000268 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +0000269
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000270version 0.5.5:
271
272 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
273 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
274 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000275 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
bellard66201e22004-05-04 01:29:51 +0000276 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000277 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
278 - FDC fixes for Win98
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000279
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000280version 0.5.4:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000281
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000282 - qemu-fast fixes
283 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
284 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
285 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
286 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
bellard91caaa62004-04-22 21:36:13 +0000287 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
288 - User mode network stack
289 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard52c00a52004-04-25 21:27:03 +0000290 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000291
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000292version 0.5.3:
293
bellard6411cfb2004-02-06 19:57:09 +0000294 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000295 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
296 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
297 - CPU interrupt fixes
298 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000299 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000300 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000301 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
302 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
303 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000304 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
305 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
306 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
307 - graphical x86 linux loader
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000308 - command line monitor
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000309 - generic removable device support
310 - support of CD-ROM change
311 - multiple network interface support
bellardbc51c5c2004-03-17 23:46:04 +0000312 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellardd9d849f2004-03-21 17:12:48 +0000313 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000314 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
315 - VM save/restore commands
316 - new timer API
317 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
bellard67b915a2004-03-31 23:37:16 +0000318 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000319
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000320version 0.5.2:
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000321
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000322 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
323 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
324 switching tasks
325 - improved qemu-fast speed
326 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
327 softmmu mode).
328 - fixed IO checking
329 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
330 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
331 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
332 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
333 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
334 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
bellard728c9fd2004-01-05 00:08:14 +0000335 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
336 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
337 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000338 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
339 - fixed xadd same reg bug
340 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
bellard3d4b4c02004-01-25 15:22:15 +0000341 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
342 - task gate and NT flag fixes
bellarde98c8722004-01-25 15:26:12 +0000343 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000344
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000345version 0.5.1:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000346
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000347 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
348 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
349 - A20 support
bellard181f1552003-11-13 01:47:16 +0000350 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
351 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
352 - SB16 emulation (malc)
353 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
354 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
355 - Full task switching/task gate support
bellard67867302003-11-23 17:05:30 +0000356 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
357 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard3811a292004-01-04 15:27:57 +0000358 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000359
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000360version 0.5.0:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000361
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000362 - full hardware level VGA emulation
363 - graphical display with SDL
364 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
365 - popw (%esp) fix
366 - mov to/from segment data width fix
367 - added real mode support
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000368 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000369 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
370 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
371 - multi-target build
bellardfcf8fcc2003-09-17 22:56:56 +0000372 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
373 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
374 - correct single stepping thru string operations
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000375 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
376 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
377 - automatic IDE geometry detection
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000378 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000379 - added man page
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000380 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000381
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000382version 0.4.3:
383
384 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
385 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
386 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
387 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
388
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000389version 0.4.2:
390
391 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
392 - IDE emulation support
393 - initial GDB stub support
394 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000395 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000396 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
397
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000398version 0.4.1:
ths3b46e622007-09-17 08:09:54 +0000399
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000400 - more accurate timer support in vl.
401 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
402 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
403 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
404
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000405version 0.4:
406
407 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
408 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
409 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
410 - fixed popl (%esp) case
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000411 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000412
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000413version 0.3:
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000414
415 - initial support for ARM emulation
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000416 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
417 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
bellard322d0c62003-06-15 23:29:28 +0000418 - initial ARM port
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000419 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
420 - generic ioctl number conversion
421 - fixed ioctl type conversion
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000422
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000423version 0.2:
424
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000425 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
426 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
427 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
428 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000429 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
430 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
431 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
bellard86840ae2003-05-08 15:30:27 +0000432 - added HLT instruction
bellard70e19862003-05-14 19:02:49 +0000433 - LRET instruction fix.
434 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
435 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
436 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
437 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
438 - self-modifying code support
bellarddf0f11a2003-05-28 00:27:57 +0000439 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
440 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
441 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
442 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
443 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000444
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000445version 0.1.6:
446
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000447 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
448 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000449 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000450 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
451 translation cache is not flushed)
452 - RH9 fixes
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000453
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000454version 0.1.5:
455
456 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
457 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
458 - removed bfd.h dependancy
459 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
460 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
461
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000462version 0.1.4:
463
464 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
465 executables in wine).
466 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
467 - added iret instruction.
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000468 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000469
470version 0.1.3:
471
472 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
473 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
474 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
475 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
476 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
477 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
478 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
479 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
480 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
481 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
482 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
483 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
484 - poll() fix
ths5fafdf22007-09-16 21:08:06 +0000485
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000486version 0.1.2:
487
488 - compile fixes
489 - xlat instruction
490 - xchg instruction memory lock
491 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
492 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
493 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
494
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000495version 0.1.1:
496
497 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
498 - added -s and -L options
499 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000500 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000501
bellard3ef693a2003-03-23 20:17:16 +0000502version 0.1:
503
504 - initial public release.