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      1 version 0.12.0:
      2 
      3   - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0
      4   - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori)
      5   - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino)
      6   - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino)
      7   - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino)
      8   - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori)
      9   - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
     10   - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela)
     11   - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie)
     12   - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori)
     13   - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     14   - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann)
     15   - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     16   - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann)
     17   - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino)
     18   - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
     19   - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf)
     20   - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
     21   - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini)
     22   - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka)
     23   - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori)
     24   - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf)
     25   - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf)
     26   - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf)
     27   - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara)
     28   - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock)
     29   - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson)
     30   - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil)
     31   - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd)
     32   - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara)
     33   - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     34 	
     35 version 0.12.0-rc2:
     36 
     37   - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
     38   - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
     39   - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     40   - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     41   - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     42   - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     43   - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     44   - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
     45   - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     46   - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     47   - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
     48   - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann)
     49   - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
     50   - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
     51   - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
     52   - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     53   - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
     54   - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
     55   - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
     56   - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     57   - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster)
     58   - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
     59   - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster)
     60   - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
     61   - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
     62   - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     63   - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     64   - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     65   - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     66   - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
     67   - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
     68   - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
     69   - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)	
     70 
     71 version 0.10.2:
     72 
     73   - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
     74   - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
     75   - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
     76   - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
     77   - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
     78   - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
     79   - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
     80   - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
     81   - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
     82   - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
     83   - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
     84   - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
     85   - fix VGA regression (malc)
     86 	
     87 version 0.10.1:
     88 
     89   - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
     90   - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
     91     (Marcelo Tosatti)
     92   - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info).  This series of changes added
     93     a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
     94   - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
     95   - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
     96   - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request.  When using TCG and a dynticks
     97     host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
     98     loop (Aurelien Jarno)
     99   - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
    100   - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
    101   - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
    102   - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
    103   - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
    104   - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
    105   - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
    106   - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
    107     (Ryan Harper)
    108 
    109 version 0.10.0:
    110 
    111   - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
    112   - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
    113   - BSD userspace emulation
    114   - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
    115   - GDB XML register description support
    116   - Intel e1000 emulation
    117   - HPET emulation
    118   - VirtIO paravirtual device support
    119   - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
    120   - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
    121   - PCI hotplug support
    122   - Live migration and new save/restore formats
    123   - Curses display support
    124   - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
    125   - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
    126   - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
    127   - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
    128   - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Herv Poussineau)
    129   - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
    130   - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
    131   - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
    132   - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
    133   - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schtz)
    134   - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
    135 
    136 version 0.9.1:
    137 
    138   - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
    139   - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
    140   - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
    141   - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
    142   - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
    143   - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
    144   - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
    145   - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
    146   - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
    147   - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
    148   - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
    149   - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
    150   - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
    151   - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
    152   - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
    153   - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
    154   - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
    155   - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
    156   - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
    157   - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
    158   - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
    159   - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
    160   - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)
    161 
    162 version 0.9.0:
    163 
    164   - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images
    165   - Async file I/O API
    166   - New qcow2 disk image format
    167   - Support of multiple VM snapshots
    168   - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support
    169   - SMM support
    170   - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
    171   - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
    172   - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
    173   - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
    174   - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
    175   - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
    176   - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
    177   - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
    178   - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)
    179 
    180 version 0.8.2:
    181 
    182   - ACPI support
    183   - PC VGA BIOS fixes
    184   - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl)
    185   - VNC server fixes
    186   - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger)
    187   - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil)
    188   - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel)
    189   - USB updates (Paul Brook)
    190   - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel)
    191   - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio)
    192   - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko)
    193   - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis)
    194   - Support for variable frequency host CPUs
    195   - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts
    196   - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer)
    197   - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc)
    198 
    199 version 0.8.1:
    200 
    201   - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori)
    202   - win32 host serial support (Kazu)
    203   - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke)
    204   - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe)
    205   - SSE3 support
    206   - Solaris port (Juergen Keil)
    207   - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu)
    208   - VNC server (Anthony Liguori)
    209   - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.)
    210   - USB fixes
    211   - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook)
    212 
    213 version 0.8.0:
    214 
    215   - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s
    216     cpu (Paul Brook)
    217   - SMP support
    218   - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg)
    219   - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg)
    220   - DirectSound driver (malc)
    221   - ALSA audio driver (malc)
    222   - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc)
    223   - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc)
    224   - Initial USB support
    225   - Linux host serial port access
    226   - Linux host low level parallel port access
    227   - New network emulation code supporting VLANs.
    228   - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation
    229   - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz)
    230   - NX bit support
    231   - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl)
    232   - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support
    233     (Johannes Schindelin)
    234 
    235 version 0.7.2:
    236 
    237   - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit)
    238   - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism.
    239   - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle)
    240   - better user net performances
    241 
    242 version 0.7.1:
    243 
    244   - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin)
    245   - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir
    246     N. Oleynik)
    247   - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara)
    248   - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl)
    249   - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer)
    250   - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle)
    251   - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne)
    252   - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara)
    253 
    254 version 0.7.0:
    255 
    256   - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection
    257   - user mode networking bug fix
    258   - undocumented FPU ops support
    259   - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes
    260   - 'pidfile' option
    261   - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin)
    262   - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin)
    263   - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek)
    264   - added generic 64 bit target support
    265   - x86_64 target support
    266   - initial APIC support
    267   - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support
    268   - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere)
    269   - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl)
    270   - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl)
    271   - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook)
    272   - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook)
    273   - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook)
    274   - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook)
    275   - Samba 3 support
    276   - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont)
    277   - generic FPU emulation code
    278   - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi)
    279 
    280 version 0.6.1:
    281 
    282   - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont)
    283   - Virtual console support
    284   - Better monitor line edition
    285   - New block device layer
    286   - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and
    287     transparent decompression
    288   - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested)
    289   - Support for up to 4 serial ports
    290   - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm)
    291   - Port redirection support in user mode networking
    292   - Support for not executable data sections
    293   - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin)
    294   - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve
    295     Wormley)
    296   - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any
    297     LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2)
    298   - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone)
    299   - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl)
    300   - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows.
    301   - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options
    302   - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin)
    303   - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to
    304     the virtual consoles.
    305   - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert)
    306   - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell)
    307   - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell)
    308   - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc)
    309   - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi)
    310   - VGA font change fix
    311   - VGA read-only CRTC register fix
    312 
    313 version 0.6.0:
    314 
    315   - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix)
    316   - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot)
    317   - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto)
    318   - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere)
    319   - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell)
    320   - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix)
    321   - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix)
    322   - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix
    323   - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images
    324   - PCI support
    325   - NE2K PCI support
    326   - dummy VGA PCI support
    327   - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell)
    328   - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI)
    329   - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug)
    330   - added '-localtime' option
    331   - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu))
    332   - APM and system shutdown support
    333   - Fixed system reset
    334   - Support for other PC BIOSes
    335   - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation
    336   - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer)
    337   - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86)
    338   - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB
    339 
    340 version 0.5.5:
    341 
    342   - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc)
    343   - VGA support on PowerPC PREP
    344   - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci)
    345   - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug)
    346   - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug)
    347   - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht)
    348   - FDC fixes for Win98
    349 
    350 version 0.5.4:
    351 
    352   - qemu-fast fixes
    353   - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell)
    354   - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell)
    355   - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers)
    356   - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell)
    357   - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer)
    358   - User mode network stack
    359   - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI)
    360   - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug)
    361 
    362 version 0.5.3:
    363 
    364   - added Bochs VESA VBE support
    365   - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix)
    366   - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe)
    367   - CPU interrupt fixes
    368   - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install)
    369   - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install)
    370   - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster)
    371   - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht)
    372   - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance
    373     in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast)
    374   - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras)
    375   - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation
    376   - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix)
    377   - graphical x86 linux loader
    378   - command line monitor
    379   - generic removable device support
    380   - support of CD-ROM change
    381   - multiple network interface support
    382   - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne)
    383   - lret to outer priviledge fix (OS/2 install fix)
    384   - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot)
    385   - VM save/restore commands
    386   - new timer API
    387   - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates)
    388   - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu)
    389 
    390 version 0.5.2:
    391 
    392   - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing)
    393   - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when
    394     switching tasks
    395   - improved qemu-fast speed
    396   - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in
    397     softmmu mode).
    398   - fixed IO checking
    399   - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD)
    400   - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix)
    401   - added ROM memory support (win98 boot)
    402   - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception
    403   - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically
    404     when launching executables for the supported target CPUs.
    405   - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer)
    406   - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer)
    407   - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer)
    408   - fixed PTE dirty bit handling
    409   - fixed xadd same reg bug
    410   - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness
    411   - access to virtual memory in gdb stub
    412   - task gate and NT flag fixes
    413   - eflags optimisation fix for string operations
    414 
    415 version 0.5.1:
    416 
    417   - float access fixes when using soft mmu
    418   - PC emulation support on PowerPC
    419   - A20 support
    420   - IDE CD-ROM emulation
    421   - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht)
    422   - SB16 emulation (malc)
    423   - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3
    424   - Port I/Os use TSS io map
    425   - Full task switching/task gate support
    426   - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx
    427   - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer)
    428   - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work)
    429 
    430 version 0.5.0:
    431 
    432   - full hardware level VGA emulation
    433   - graphical display with SDL
    434   - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation
    435   - popw (%esp) fix
    436   - mov to/from segment data width fix
    437   - added real mode support
    438   - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu
    439   - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky)
    440   - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os
    441   - multi-target build
    442   - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts
    443   - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn
    444   - correct single stepping thru string operations
    445   - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg)
    446   - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell)
    447   - automatic IDE geometry detection
    448   - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}.
    449   - added man page
    450   - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes.
    451 
    452 version 0.4.3:
    453 
    454   - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction.
    455   - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix)
    456   - sparc and Alpha host fixes
    457   - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched.
    458 
    459 version 0.4.2:
    460 
    461  - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl)
    462  - IDE emulation support
    463  - initial GDB stub support
    464  - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell)
    465  - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images
    466  - SMP kernels can at least be booted
    467 
    468 version 0.4.1:
    469 
    470  - more accurate timer support in vl.
    471  - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl.
    472  - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test.
    473  - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl.
    474 
    475 version 0.4:
    476 
    477  - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation
    478  - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation
    479  - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap()
    480  - fixed popl (%esp) case
    481  - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command.
    482 
    483 version 0.3:
    484 
    485  - initial support for ARM emulation
    486  - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions
    487  - added FPU register save in signal emulation
    488  - initial ARM port
    489  - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test
    490  - generic ioctl number conversion
    491  - fixed ioctl type conversion
    492 
    493 version 0.2:
    494 
    495  - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell)
    496  - flock support (Rusty Russell)
    497  - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell)
    498  - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell)
    499  - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner)
    500  - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson)
    501  - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller)
    502  - added HLT instruction
    503  - LRET instruction fix.
    504  - added GPF generation for I/Os.
    505  - added INT3 and TF flag support.
    506  - SHL instruction C flag fix.
    507  - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB
    508  - self-modifying code support
    509  - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs)
    510  - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases)
    511  - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation
    512  - faster segment load in vm86 mode
    513  - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation)
    514 
    515 version 0.1.6:
    516 
    517  - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched
    518    ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell).
    519  - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan)
    520  - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the
    521    translation cache is not flushed)
    522  - RH9 fixes
    523 
    524 version 0.1.5:
    525 
    526  - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell)
    527  - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner)
    528  - removed bfd.h dependancy
    529  - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC.
    530  - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC).
    531 
    532 version 0.1.4:
    533 
    534  - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit
    535    executables in wine).
    536  - fixed push/pop fs/gs
    537  - added iret instruction.
    538  - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl.
    539 
    540 version 0.1.3:
    541 
    542  - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand)
    543  - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand)
    544  - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
    545  - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
    546  - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
    547  - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
    548  - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand)
    549  - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand)
    550  - more accurate pushf/popf emulation
    551  - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example).
    552  - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions
    553  - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations
    554  - poll() fix
    555 
    556 version 0.1.2:
    557 
    558  - compile fixes
    559  - xlat instruction
    560  - xchg instruction memory lock
    561  - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte
    562    DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram
    563    Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html).
    564 
    565 version 0.1.1:
    566 
    567  - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes
    568  - added -s and -L options
    569  - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine
    570  - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents.
    571 
    572 version 0.1:
    573 
    574  - initial public release.
    575