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bellardde167e42005-04-28 21:15:08 +00001version 0.7.1:
2
3 - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
4
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +00005version 0.7.0:
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +00006
7 - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
8 - user mode networking bug fix
9 - undocumented FPU ops support
bellarda07167d2004-11-30 23:41:30 +000010 - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
bellard6a78ece2004-12-08 23:47:30 +000011 - 'pidfile' option
bellard585d0ed2004-12-12 11:24:44 +000012 - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
bellard3d11d0e2004-12-12 16:56:30 +000013 - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
bellard808c4952004-12-19 23:33:47 +000014 - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +000015 - added generic 64 bit target support
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000016 - x86_64 target support
bellardbdfaf502005-01-03 23:51:01 +000017 - initial APIC support
bellard664e0f12005-01-08 18:58:29 +000018 - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
bellard6508fe52005-01-15 12:02:56 +000019 - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +000020 - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000021 - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
bellard99c475a2005-01-31 20:45:13 +000022 - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
bellardb7bcbe92005-02-22 19:27:29 +000023 - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000024 - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
25 - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
bellard232ba5a2005-03-01 22:30:05 +000026 - Samba 3 support
27 - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
bellarda8753c32005-04-26 21:34:00 +000028 - generic FPU emulation code
bellard6a0f9e82005-04-27 20:17:58 +000029 - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
bellardbed5cd82004-11-24 19:31:52 +000030
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +000031version 0.6.1:
32
33 - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
34 - Virtual console support
bellard05d58182004-08-24 21:12:04 +000035 - 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
bellardc7f74642004-08-24 21:57:12 +000041 - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
bellard9bf05442004-08-25 22:12:49 +000042 - Port redirection support in user mode networking
bellard16c460b2004-09-29 21:56:51 +000043 - 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)
bellard525d67b2004-09-30 18:58:48 +000047 - 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)
bellarde95c8d52004-09-30 22:22:08 +000050 - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
bellard2518bd02004-09-30 22:35:13 +000051 - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
bellardd63d3072004-10-03 13:29:03 +000052 - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
bellardf9859312004-10-03 14:33:10 +000053 - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
54 - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
55 the virtual consoles.
bellard655aa522004-10-09 16:48:17 +000056 - 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)
bellardd75d9f62004-10-09 17:20:54 +000059 - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
bellard61a8c4e2004-11-14 15:39:16 +000060 - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
bellardc76338c2004-11-14 19:52:18 +000061 - VGA font change fix
62 - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
bellard49b3b9f2004-07-14 17:31:32 +000063
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +000064version 0.6.0:
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +000065
66 - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
67 - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
bellardf528bfd2004-05-16 15:57:26 +000068 - *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
bellard69b91032004-05-18 23:05:28 +000074 - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
75 - PCI support
76 - NE2K PCI support
bellard43990592004-05-20 13:24:37 +000077 - dummy VGA PCI support
78 - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
bellardb54ad042004-05-20 13:42:52 +000079 - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard15aeac32004-05-20 16:12:05 +000080 - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
bellardbe3edd92004-06-03 12:48:45 +000081 - added '-localtime' option
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +000082 - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
bellard987c1c62004-06-20 13:02:46 +000083 - APM and system shutdown support
84 - Fixed system reset
bellard70867492004-06-20 13:42:16 +000085 - Support for other PC BIOSes
bellard638260e2004-06-21 19:54:19 +000086 - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
87 - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellardd08c49a2004-07-10 16:40:19 +000088 - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
bellard7e71f162004-07-08 21:16:21 +000089 - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
bellard44c513c2004-05-08 21:24:35 +000090
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +000091version 0.5.5:
92
93 - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
94 - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
95 - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +000096 - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
bellard66201e22004-05-04 01:29:51 +000097 - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
bellarda1b74fe2004-05-08 13:26:35 +000098 - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
99 - FDC fixes for Win98
bellardb06eddd2004-04-29 22:34:24 +0000100
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000101version 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)
bellard91caaa62004-04-22 21:36:13 +0000108 - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
109 - User mode network stack
110 - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
bellard52c00a52004-04-25 21:27:03 +0000111 - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
bellard2f0c9342004-04-11 14:55:01 +0000112
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000113version 0.5.3:
114
bellard6411cfb2004-02-06 19:57:09 +0000115 - added Bochs VESA VBE support
bellard625976d2004-02-03 23:30:47 +0000116 - 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)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000120 - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000121 - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
bellard22a46c52004-02-16 22:13:24 +0000122 - 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)
bellard94fe4f92004-03-14 21:49:05 +0000125 - 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
bellardbc51c5c2004-03-17 23:46:04 +0000133 - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
bellardd9d849f2004-03-21 17:12:48 +0000134 - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000135 - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
136 - VM save/restore commands
137 - new timer API
138 - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
bellard67b915a2004-03-31 23:37:16 +0000139 - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
bellardbb27c192004-03-31 19:05:07 +0000140
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000141version 0.5.2:
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000142
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000143 - 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.
bellard728c9fd2004-01-05 00:08:14 +0000156 - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
157 - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
158 - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard2be3bc02004-01-18 23:14:25 +0000159 - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
160 - fixed xadd same reg bug
161 - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
bellard3d4b4c02004-01-25 15:22:15 +0000162 - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
163 - task gate and NT flag fixes
bellarde98c8722004-01-25 15:26:12 +0000164 - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
bellardefe160c2004-01-04 18:28:47 +0000165
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000166version 0.5.1:
167
168 - float access fixes when using soft mmu
169 - PC emulation support on PowerPC
170 - A20 support
bellard181f1552003-11-13 01:47:16 +0000171 - 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
bellard67867302003-11-23 17:05:30 +0000177 - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
178 - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
bellard3811a292004-01-04 15:27:57 +0000179 - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000180
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000181version 0.5.0:
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000182
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
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000189 - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000190 - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
191 - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
192 - multi-target build
bellardfcf8fcc2003-09-17 22:56:56 +0000193 - 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
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000196 - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
197 - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
198 - automatic IDE geometry detection
bellard285dc332003-10-27 23:58:04 +0000199 - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
bellard0806e3f2003-10-01 00:15:32 +0000200 - added man page
bellard9c3ad572003-11-04 23:33:13 +0000201 - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
bellard9368caf2003-08-10 22:15:31 +0000202
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000203version 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
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000210version 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)
bellard9d0fe222003-07-13 22:08:50 +0000216 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
bellard46907642003-07-07 12:17:46 +0000217 - SMP kernels can at least be booted
218
bellardd5a0b502003-06-27 12:02:03 +0000219version 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
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000226version 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
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000232 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
bellard6c0372d2003-06-24 13:40:52 +0000233
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000234version 0.3:
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000235
236 - initial support for ARM emulation
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000237 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
238 - added FPU register save in signal emulation
bellard322d0c62003-06-15 23:29:28 +0000239 - initial ARM port
bellardde83cd02003-06-15 20:25:43 +0000240 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
241 - generic ioctl number conversion
242 - fixed ioctl type conversion
bellard411bffc2003-06-09 15:38:23 +0000243
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000244version 0.2:
245
bellard1eb20522003-06-25 16:21:49 +0000246 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
247 - flock support (Rusty Russell)
248 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
249 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000250 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
251 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
252 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
bellard86840ae2003-05-08 15:30:27 +0000253 - added HLT instruction
bellard70e19862003-05-14 19:02:49 +0000254 - 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
bellarddf0f11a2003-05-28 00:27:57 +0000260 - 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)
bellard3c519612003-04-29 21:34:02 +0000265
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000266version 0.1.6:
267
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000268 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
269 ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000270 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
bellard1eb87252003-04-11 01:12:28 +0000271 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
272 translation cache is not flushed)
273 - RH9 fixes
bellard66cd5842003-04-10 00:02:58 +0000274
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000275version 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
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000283version 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.
bellard27c75a92003-04-07 21:35:21 +0000289 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000290
291version 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
307version 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
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000316version 0.1.1:
317
318 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
319 - added -s and -L options
320 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
bellardbc8a22c2003-03-30 21:02:40 +0000321 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
bellardd691f662003-03-24 21:58:34 +0000322
bellard3ef693a2003-03-23 20:17:16 +0000323version 0.1:
324
325 - initial public release.