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version 0.8.3:

  - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images

  - Async file I/O API

  - New qcow2 disk image format

  - Support of multiple VM snapshots

  - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support

version 0.8.2:

  - ACPI support

  - PC VGA BIOS fixes

  - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)

  - VNC server fixes

  - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)

  - Solaris/SPARC host support (Ben Taylor)

  - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)

  - USB updates (Paul Brook)

  - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)

  - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)

  - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)

  - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)

  - Support for variable frequency host CPUs

  - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts

  - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)

  - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)

version 0.8.1:

  - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)

  - win32 host serial support (Kazu)

  - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)

  - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)

  - SSE3 support

  - Solaris port (Ben Taylor)

  - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)

  - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)

  - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)

  - USB fixes

  - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)

version 0.8.0:

  - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s

    cpu (Paul Brook)

  - SMP support

  - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)

  - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)

  - DirectSound driver (malc)

  - ALSA audio driver (malc)

  - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)

  - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)

  - Initial USB support

  - Linux host serial port access

  - Linux host low level parallel port access

  - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.

  - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation

  - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)

  - NX bit support

  - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)

  - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support

    (Johannes Schindelin)

version 0.7.2:

  - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)

  - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.

  - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)

  - better user net performances

version 0.7.1:

  - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)

  - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir

    N. Oleynik)

  - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)

  - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)

  - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)

  - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)

  - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)

  - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)

version 0.7.0:

  - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection

  - user mode networking bug fix

  - undocumented FPU ops support

  - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes

  - 'pidfile' option

  - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)

  - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)

  - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)

  - added generic 64 bit target support

  - x86_64 target support

  - initial APIC support

  - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support

  - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)

  - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)

  - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)

  - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)

  - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)

  - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)

  - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)

  - Samba 3 support

  - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)

  - generic FPU emulation code

  - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)

version 0.6.1:

  - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)

  - Virtual console support

  - Better monitor line edition

  - New block device layer 

  - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and

    transparent decompression

  - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)

  - Support for up to 4 serial ports

  - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)

  - Port redirection support in user mode networking

  - Support for not executable data sections

  - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)

  - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve

    Wormley)

  - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any

    LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)

  - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)

  - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)

  - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.

  - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options

  - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)

  - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to

    the virtual consoles.

  - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)

  - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)

  - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)

  - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)

  - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)

  - VGA font change fix

  - VGA read-only CRTC register fix

version 0.6.0:

  - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)

  - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)

  - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)

  - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)

  - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)

  - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)

  - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)

  - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix

  - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images

  - PCI support

  - NE2K PCI support

  - dummy VGA PCI support

  - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)

  - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)

  - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)

  - added '-localtime' option

  - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))

  - APM and system shutdown support

  - Fixed system reset

  - Support for other PC BIOSes

  - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation

  - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)

  - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)

  - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB

version 0.5.5:

  - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)

  - VGA support on PowerPC PREP

  - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)

  - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)

  - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)

  - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)

  - FDC fixes for Win98

version 0.5.4:

  - qemu-fast fixes

  - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)

  - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)

  - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)

  - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)

  - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)

  - User mode network stack

  - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)

  - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)

version 0.5.3:

  - added Bochs VESA VBE support

  - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)

  - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)

  - CPU interrupt fixes

  - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)

  - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)

  - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)

  - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)

  - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance

    in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)

  - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)

  - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation

  - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)

  - graphical x86 linux loader

  - command line monitor 

  - generic removable device support

  - support of CD-ROM change

  - multiple network interface support

  - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)

  - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)

  - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)

  - VM save/restore commands

  - new timer API

  - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)

  - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)

version 0.5.2:

  - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)

  - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when

    switching tasks

  - improved qemu-fast speed

  - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in

    softmmu mode).

  - fixed IO checking

  - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)

  - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)

  - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)

  - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception

  - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically

    when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.

  - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)

  - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)

  - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)

  - fixed PTE dirty bit handling

  - fixed xadd same reg bug

  - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness

  - access to virtual memory in gdb stub

  - task gate and NT flag fixes

  - eflags optimisation fix for string operations

version 0.5.1:

  - float access fixes when using soft mmu

  - PC emulation support on PowerPC

  - A20 support

  - IDE CD-ROM emulation

  - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)

  - SB16 emulation (malc)

  - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3

  - Port I/Os use TSS io map

  - Full task switching/task gate support

  - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx

  - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)

  - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)

version 0.5.0:

  - full hardware level VGA emulation

  - graphical display with SDL

  - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation

  - popw (%esp) fix

  - mov to/from segment data width fix

  - added real mode support

  - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu

  - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)

  - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os

  - multi-target build

  - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts

  - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn

  - correct single stepping thru string operations

  - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)

  - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)

  - automatic IDE geometry detection

  - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.

  - added man page

  - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.

version 0.4.3:

  - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.

  - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)

  - sparc and Alpha host fixes

  - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.

version 0.4.2:

 - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)

 - IDE emulation support

 - initial GDB stub support

 - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)

 - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images

 - SMP kernels can at least be booted

version 0.4.1:

 - more accurate timer support in vl.

 - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.

 - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.

 - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.

version 0.4:

 - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation

 - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation

 - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()

 - fixed popl (%esp) case

 - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.

version 0.3:

 - initial support for ARM emulation

 - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions

 - added FPU register save in signal emulation

 - initial ARM port

 - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test

 - generic ioctl number conversion

 - fixed ioctl type conversion

version 0.2:

 - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)

 - flock support (Rusty Russell)

 - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)

 - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)

 - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)

 - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)

 - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)

 - added HLT instruction

 - LRET instruction fix.

 - added GPF generation for I/Os.

 - added INT3 and TF flag support.

 - SHL instruction C flag fix.

 - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB

 - self-modifying code support

 - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)

 - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)

 - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation

 - faster segment load in vm86 mode

 - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)

version 0.1.6:

 - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched

   ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).

 - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)

 - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the

   translation cache is not flushed)

 - RH9 fixes

version 0.1.5:

 - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)

 - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)

 - removed bfd.h dependancy

 - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.

 - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).

version 0.1.4:

 - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit

   executables in wine).

 - fixed push/pop fs/gs

 - added iret instruction.

 - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.

version 0.1.3:

 - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)

 - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)

 - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)

 - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)

 - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)

 - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)

 - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)

 - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)

 - more accurate pushf/popf emulation

 - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).

 - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions

 - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations

 - poll() fix

version 0.1.2:

 - compile fixes

 - xlat instruction

 - xchg instruction memory lock

 - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte

   DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram

   Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).

version 0.1.1:

 - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes

 - added -s and -L options

 - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine

 - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.

version 0.1:

 - initial public release.