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     1   - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
       
     2   - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
       
     3   - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
       
     4   - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
       
     5   - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
       
     6   - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz)
       
     7 
       
     8 version 0.9.1:
       
     9 
       
    10   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
       
    11   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
       
    12   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
       
    13   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
       
    14   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
       
    15   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
       
    16   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
       
    17   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
       
    18   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
       
    19   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
       
    20   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
       
    21   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
       
    22   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
       
    23   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
       
    24   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
       
    25   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
       
    26   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
       
    27   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
       
    28   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
       
    29   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
       
    30   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
       
    31   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
       
    32   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
       
    33 
       
    34 version 0.9.0:
       
    35 
       
    36   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
       
    37   - Async file I/O API
       
    38   - New qcow2 disk image format
       
    39   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
       
    40   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
       
    41   - SMM support
       
    42   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
       
    43   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
       
    44   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
       
    45   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
       
    46   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
       
    47   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
       
    48   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
       
    49   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
       
    50   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
       
    51 
       
    52 version 0.8.2:
       
    53 
       
    54   - ACPI support
       
    55   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
       
    56   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
       
    57   - VNC server fixes
       
    58   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
       
    59   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
       
    60   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
       
    61   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
       
    62   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
       
    63   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
       
    64   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
       
    65   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
       
    66   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
       
    67   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
       
    68   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
       
    69   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
       
    70 
       
    71 version 0.8.1:
       
    72 
       
    73   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
       
    74   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
       
    75   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
       
    76   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
       
    77   - SSE3 support
       
    78   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
       
    79   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
       
    80   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
       
    81   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
       
    82   - USB fixes
       
    83   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
       
    84 
       
    85 version 0.8.0:
       
    86 
       
    87   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
       
    88     cpu (Paul Brook)
       
    89   - SMP support
       
    90   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
       
    91   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
       
    92   - DirectSound driver (malc)
       
    93   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
       
    94   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
       
    95   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
       
    96   - Initial USB support
       
    97   - Linux host serial port access
       
    98   - Linux host low level parallel port access
       
    99   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
       
   100   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
       
   101   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
       
   102   - NX bit support
       
   103   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
       
   104   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
       
   105     (Johannes Schindelin)
       
   106 
       
   107 version 0.7.2:
       
   108 
       
   109   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
       
   110   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
       
   111   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
       
   112   - better user net performances
       
   113 
       
   114 version 0.7.1:
       
   115 
       
   116   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
       
   117   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
       
   118     N. Oleynik)
       
   119   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
       
   120   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
       
   121   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
       
   122   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
       
   123   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
       
   124   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
       
   125 
       
   126 version 0.7.0:
       
   127 
       
   128   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
       
   129   - user mode networking bug fix
       
   130   - undocumented FPU ops support
       
   131   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
       
   132   - 'pidfile' option
       
   133   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
       
   134   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
       
   135   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
       
   136   - added generic 64 bit target support
       
   137   - x86_64 target support
       
   138   - initial APIC support
       
   139   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
       
   140   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
       
   141   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
       
   142   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
       
   143   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
       
   144   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
       
   145   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
       
   146   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
       
   147   - Samba 3 support
       
   148   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
       
   149   - generic FPU emulation code
       
   150   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
       
   151 
       
   152 version 0.6.1:
       
   153 
       
   154   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
       
   155   - Virtual console support
       
   156   - Better monitor line edition
       
   157   - New block device layer
       
   158   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
       
   159     transparent decompression
       
   160   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
       
   161   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
       
   162   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
       
   163   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
       
   164   - Support for not executable data sections
       
   165   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
       
   166   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
       
   167     Wormley)
       
   168   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
       
   169     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
       
   170   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
       
   171   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
       
   172   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
       
   173   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
       
   174   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
       
   175   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
       
   176     the virtual consoles.
       
   177   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
       
   178   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
       
   179   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
       
   180   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
       
   181   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
       
   182   - VGA font change fix
       
   183   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
       
   184 
       
   185 version 0.6.0:
       
   186 
       
   187   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
       
   188   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
       
   189   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
       
   190   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
       
   191   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
       
   192   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
       
   193   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
       
   194   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
       
   195   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
       
   196   - PCI support
       
   197   - NE2K PCI support
       
   198   - dummy VGA PCI support
       
   199   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
       
   200   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
       
   201   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
       
   202   - added '-localtime' option
       
   203   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
       
   204   - APM and system shutdown support
       
   205   - Fixed system reset
       
   206   - Support for other PC BIOSes
       
   207   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
       
   208   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
       
   209   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
       
   210   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
       
   211 
       
   212 version 0.5.5:
       
   213 
       
   214   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
       
   215   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
       
   216   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
       
   217   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
       
   218   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
       
   219   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
       
   220   - FDC fixes for Win98
       
   221 
       
   222 version 0.5.4:
       
   223 
       
   224   - qemu-fast fixes
       
   225   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
       
   226   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
       
   227   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
       
   228   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
       
   229   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
       
   230   - User mode network stack
       
   231   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
       
   232   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
       
   233 
       
   234 version 0.5.3:
       
   235 
       
   236   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
       
   237   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
       
   238   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
       
   239   - CPU interrupt fixes
       
   240   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
       
   241   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
       
   242   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
       
   243   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
       
   244   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
       
   245     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
       
   246   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
       
   247   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
       
   248   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
       
   249   - graphical x86 linux loader
       
   250   - command line monitor
       
   251   - generic removable device support
       
   252   - support of CD-ROM change
       
   253   - multiple network interface support
       
   254   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
       
   255   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
       
   256   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
       
   257   - VM save/restore commands
       
   258   - new timer API
       
   259   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
       
   260   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
       
   261 
       
   262 version 0.5.2:
       
   263 
       
   264   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
       
   265   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
       
   266     switching tasks
       
   267   - improved qemu-fast speed
       
   268   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
       
   269     softmmu mode).
       
   270   - fixed IO checking
       
   271   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
       
   272   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
       
   273   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
       
   274   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
       
   275   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
       
   276     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
       
   277   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
       
   278   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
       
   279   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
       
   280   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
       
   281   - fixed xadd same reg bug
       
   282   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
       
   283   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
       
   284   - task gate and NT flag fixes
       
   285   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
       
   286 
       
   287 version 0.5.1:
       
   288 
       
   289   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
       
   290   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
       
   291   - A20 support
       
   292   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
       
   293   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
       
   294   - SB16 emulation (malc)
       
   295   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
       
   296   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
       
   297   - Full task switching/task gate support
       
   298   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
       
   299   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
       
   300   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
       
   301 
       
   302 version 0.5.0:
       
   303 
       
   304   - full hardware level VGA emulation
       
   305   - graphical display with SDL
       
   306   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
       
   307   - popw (%esp) fix
       
   308   - mov to/from segment data width fix
       
   309   - added real mode support
       
   310   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
       
   311   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
       
   312   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
       
   313   - multi-target build
       
   314   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
       
   315   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
       
   316   - correct single stepping thru string operations
       
   317   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
       
   318   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
       
   319   - automatic IDE geometry detection
       
   320   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
       
   321   - added man page
       
   322   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
       
   323 
       
   324 version 0.4.3:
       
   325 
       
   326   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
       
   327   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
       
   328   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
       
   329   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
       
   330 
       
   331 version 0.4.2:
       
   332 
       
   333  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
       
   334  - IDE emulation support
       
   335  - initial GDB stub support
       
   336  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
       
   337  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
       
   338  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
       
   339 
       
   340 version 0.4.1:
       
   341 
       
   342  - more accurate timer support in vl.
       
   343  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
       
   344  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
       
   345  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
       
   346 
       
   347 version 0.4:
       
   348 
       
   349  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
       
   350  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
       
   351  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
       
   352  - fixed popl (%esp) case
       
   353  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
       
   354 
       
   355 version 0.3:
       
   356 
       
   357  - initial support for ARM emulation
       
   358  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
       
   359  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
       
   360  - initial ARM port
       
   361  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
       
   362  - generic ioctl number conversion
       
   363  - fixed ioctl type conversion
       
   364 
       
   365 version 0.2:
       
   366 
       
   367  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
       
   368  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
       
   369  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
       
   370  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
       
   371  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
       
   372  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
       
   373  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
       
   374  - added HLT instruction
       
   375  - LRET instruction fix.
       
   376  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
       
   377  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
       
   378  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
       
   379  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
       
   380  - self-modifying code support
       
   381  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
       
   382  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
       
   383  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
       
   384  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
       
   385  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
       
   386 
       
   387 version 0.1.6:
       
   388 
       
   389  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
       
   390    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
       
   391  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
       
   392  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
       
   393    translation cache is not flushed)
       
   394  - RH9 fixes
       
   395 
       
   396 version 0.1.5:
       
   397 
       
   398  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
       
   399  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
       
   400  - removed bfd.h dependancy
       
   401  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
       
   402  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
       
   403 
       
   404 version 0.1.4:
       
   405 
       
   406  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
       
   407    executables in wine).
       
   408  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
       
   409  - added iret instruction.
       
   410  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
       
   411 
       
   412 version 0.1.3:
       
   413 
       
   414  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   415  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   416  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   417  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   418  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   419  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   420  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   421  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
       
   422  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
       
   423  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
       
   424  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
       
   425  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
       
   426  - poll() fix
       
   427 
       
   428 version 0.1.2:
       
   429 
       
   430  - compile fixes
       
   431  - xlat instruction
       
   432  - xchg instruction memory lock
       
   433  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
       
   434    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
       
   435    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
       
   436 
       
   437 version 0.1.1:
       
   438 
       
   439  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
       
   440  - added -s and -L options
       
   441  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
       
   442  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
       
   443 
       
   444 version 0.1:
       
   445 
       
   446  - initial public release.