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   1version 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        
  35version 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
  71version 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        
  87version 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
 109version 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 (Hervé 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" Schütz)
 134  - Many, many, bug fixes and new features
 135
 136version 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
 162version 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
 180version 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
 199version 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
 213version 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
 235version 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
 242version 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
 254version 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
 280version 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
 313version 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
 340version 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
 350version 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
 362version 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
 390version 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
 415version 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
 430version 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
 452version 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
 459version 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
 468version 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
 475version 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
 483version 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
 493version 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
 515version 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
 524version 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
 532version 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
 540version 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
 556version 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
 565version 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
 572version 0.1:
 573
 574 - initial public release.
 575