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bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +00001version 0.7.3:
2
3 - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +00004 - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +00005 - DirectSound driver (malc)
bellardd5d11ea2005-10-30 21:38:50 +00006 - ALSA audio driver (malc)
bellard6f5f11a2005-10-30 19:12:29 +00007 - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +00008 - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
bellardbb36d472005-11-05 14:22:28 +00009 - Initial USB support
bellard1d14ffa2005-10-30 18:58:22 +000010
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +000011version 0.7.2:
12
13 - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
14 - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
15 - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
16 - better user net performances
17
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +000018version 0.7.1:
19
20 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellarda09db212005-04-30 16:10:35 +000021 - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
22 N. Oleynik)
bellard8979b222005-07-02 14:02:54 +000023 - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
bellard34751872005-07-02 14:31:34 +000024 - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
bellardb1957752005-07-02 15:39:14 +000025 - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
26 - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
bellard33d08432005-07-03 16:45:42 +000027 - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellarda7c15ab2005-09-03 10:45:39 +000028 - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +000029
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000030version 0.7.0:
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +000031
32 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
33 - user mode networking bug fix
34 - undocumented FPU ops support
bellarda07167d2004-11-30 23:41:30 +000035 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
bellard6a78ece2004-12-08 23:47:30 +000036 - 'pidfile' option
bellard585d0ed2004-12-12 11:24:44 +000037 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellard3d11d0e2004-12-12 16:56:30 +000038 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
bellard808c4952004-12-19 23:33:47 +000039 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +000040 - added generic 64 bit target support
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000041 - x86_64 target support
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +000042 - initial APIC support
bellard664e0f12005-01-08 18:58:29 +000043 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
bellard6508fe52005-01-15 12:02:56 +000044 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +000045 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000046 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +000047 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
bellardb7bcbe92005-02-22 19:27:29 +000048 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000049 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
50 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
bellard232ba5a2005-03-01 22:30:05 +000051 - Samba 3 support
52 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000053 - generic FPU emulation code
bellard6a0f9e82005-04-27 20:17:58 +000054 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +000055
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +000056version 0.6.1:
57
58 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
59 - Virtual console support
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +000060 - Better monitor line edition
61 - New block device layer
62 - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
63 transparent decompression
64 - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
65 - Support for up to 4 serial ports
bellardc7f74642004-08-24 21:57:12 +000066 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
bellard9bf05442004-08-25 22:12:49 +000067 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
bellard16c460b2004-09-29 21:56:51 +000068 - Support for not executable data sections
69 - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
70 - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
71 Wormley)
bellard525d67b2004-09-30 18:58:48 +000072 - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
73 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
74 - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
bellarde95c8d52004-09-30 22:22:08 +000075 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
bellard2518bd02004-09-30 22:35:13 +000076 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
bellardd63d3072004-10-03 13:29:03 +000077 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
bellardf9859312004-10-03 14:33:10 +000078 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
79 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
80 the virtual consoles.
bellard655aa522004-10-09 16:48:17 +000081 - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
82 - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
83 - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
bellardd75d9f62004-10-09 17:20:54 +000084 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
bellard61a8c4e2004-11-14 15:39:16 +000085 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
bellardc76338c2004-11-14 19:52:18 +000086 - VGA font change fix
87 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +000088
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +000089version 0.6.0:
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +000090
91 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
92 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
bellardf528bfd2004-05-16 15:57:26 +000093 - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
94 - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
95 - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
96 - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
97 - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
98 - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
bellard69b91032004-05-18 23:05:28 +000099 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
100 - PCI support
101 - NE2K PCI support
bellard43990592004-05-20 13:24:37 +0000102 - dummy VGA PCI support
103 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
bellardb54ad042004-05-20 13:42:52 +0000104 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard15aeac32004-05-20 16:12:05 +0000105 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
bellardbe3edd92004-06-03 12:48:45 +0000106 - added '-localtime' option
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000107 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
bellard987c1c62004-06-20 13:02:46 +0000108 - APM and system shutdown support
109 - Fixed system reset
bellard70867492004-06-20 13:42:16 +0000110 - Support for other PC BIOSes
bellard638260e2004-06-21 19:54:19 +0000111 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
112 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +0000113 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +0000114 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +0000115
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000116version 0.5.5:
117
118 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
119 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
120 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000121 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
bellard66201e22004-05-04 01:29:51 +0000122 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +0000123 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
124 - FDC fixes for Win98
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000125
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000126version 0.5.4:
127
128 - qemu-fast fixes
129 - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
130 - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
131 - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
132 - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
bellard91caaa62004-04-22 21:36:13 +0000133 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
134 - User mode network stack
135 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard52c00a52004-04-25 21:27:03 +0000136 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000137
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000138version 0.5.3:
139
bellard6411cfb2004-02-06 19:57:09 +0000140 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000141 - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
142 - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
143 - CPU interrupt fixes
144 - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000145 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000146 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000147 - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
148 - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
149 in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000150 - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
151 - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
152 - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
153 - graphical x86 linux loader
154 - command line monitor
155 - generic removable device support
156 - support of CD-ROM change
157 - multiple network interface support
bellardbc51c5c2004-03-17 23:46:04 +0000158 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellardd9d849f2004-03-21 17:12:48 +0000159 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000160 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
161 - VM save/restore commands
162 - new timer API
163 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
bellard67b915a2004-03-31 23:37:16 +0000164 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000165
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000166version 0.5.2:
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000167
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000168 - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
169 - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
170 switching tasks
171 - improved qemu-fast speed
172 - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
173 softmmu mode).
174 - fixed IO checking
175 - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
176 - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
177 - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
178 - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
179 - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
180 when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
bellard728c9fd2004-01-05 00:08:14 +0000181 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
182 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
183 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000184 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
185 - fixed xadd same reg bug
186 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
bellard3d4b4c02004-01-25 15:22:15 +0000187 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
188 - task gate and NT flag fixes
bellarde98c8722004-01-25 15:26:12 +0000189 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000190
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000191version 0.5.1:
192
193 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
194 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
195 - A20 support
bellard181f1552003-11-13 01:47:16 +0000196 - IDE CD-ROM emulation
197 - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
198 - SB16 emulation (malc)
199 - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
200 - Port I/Os use TSS io map
201 - Full task switching/task gate support
bellard67867302003-11-23 17:05:30 +0000202 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
203 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard3811a292004-01-04 15:27:57 +0000204 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000205
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000206version 0.5.0:
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000207
208 - full hardware level VGA emulation
209 - graphical display with SDL
210 - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
211 - popw (%esp) fix
212 - mov to/from segment data width fix
213 - added real mode support
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000214 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000215 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
216 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
217 - multi-target build
bellardfcf8fcc2003-09-17 22:56:56 +0000218 - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
219 - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
220 - correct single stepping thru string operations
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000221 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
222 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
223 - automatic IDE geometry detection
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000224 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000225 - added man page
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000226 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000227
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000228version 0.4.3:
229
230 - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
231 - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
232 - sparc and Alpha host fixes
233 - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
234
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000235version 0.4.2:
236
237 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
238 - IDE emulation support
239 - initial GDB stub support
240 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000241 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000242 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
243
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000244version 0.4.1:
245
246 - more accurate timer support in vl.
247 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
248 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
249 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
250
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000251version 0.4:
252
253 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
254 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
255 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
256 - fixed popl (%esp) case
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000257 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000258
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000259version 0.3:
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000260
261 - initial support for ARM emulation
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000262 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
263 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
bellard322d0c62003-06-15 23:29:28 +0000264 - initial ARM port
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000265 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
266 - generic ioctl number conversion
267 - fixed ioctl type conversion
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000268
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000269version 0.2:
270
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000271 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
272 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
273 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
274 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000275 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
276 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
277 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
bellard86840ae2003-05-08 15:30:27 +0000278 - added HLT instruction
bellard70e19862003-05-14 19:02:49 +0000279 - LRET instruction fix.
280 - added GPF generation for I/Os.
281 - added INT3 and TF flag support.
282 - SHL instruction C flag fix.
283 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
284 - self-modifying code support
bellarddf0f11a2003-05-28 00:27:57 +0000285 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
286 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
287 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
288 - faster segment load in vm86 mode
289 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000290
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000291version 0.1.6:
292
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000293 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
294 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000295 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000296 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
297 translation cache is not flushed)
298 - RH9 fixes
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000299
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000300version 0.1.5:
301
302 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
303 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
304 - removed bfd.h dependancy
305 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
306 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
307
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000308version 0.1.4:
309
310 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
311 executables in wine).
312 - fixed push/pop fs/gs
313 - added iret instruction.
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000314 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000315
316version 0.1.3:
317
318 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
319 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
320 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
321 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
322 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
323 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
324 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
325 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
326 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
327 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
328 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
329 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
330 - poll() fix
331
332version 0.1.2:
333
334 - compile fixes
335 - xlat instruction
336 - xchg instruction memory lock
337 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
338 DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
339 Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
340
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000341version 0.1.1:
342
343 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
344 - added -s and -L options
345 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000346 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000347
bellard3ef693a2003-03-23 20:17:16 +0000348version 0.1:
349
350 - initial public release.