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version 0.10.5: 

 - kvm: trim unsupported cpu features from cpuid (Avi Kivity)
 - kvm: provide a better error message for -smp > 1 (Mark McLoughlin)
 - Remove initrd printfs (Richard Jones)
 - Initial variables found by valgrind (Jean-Christophe Dubois)
 - Fix -initrd with > 4GB guests (Glauber Costa)
 - Fix busy loop on live migration for certain platforms (Uri Lublin)
 - Remove GCC 3.x requirements from docs (Hollis Blanchard)
 - ETRAX: fixes for kernel command line, ethernet address, bmi (Edgar Iglesias)
 - CRIS: Fix bmi (Edgar Iglesias)
 - Fix bounce buffer errors (Avi Kivity)
 - Fix regression in -kernel (Anthony Liguori)

version 0.10.4: 

 - Improve block range checks to remove integer overflow (Kevin Wolf)
 - e1000: do not re-init PCI config space 0 (Amit Shah)
 - fix AIO deletion race (Alex Graf)
 - reset option roms on reboot (Glauber Costa)
 - fix qcow2 corruption in cluster freeing (Gleb Natapov)
 - Enable power button event generation (Gleb Natapov)

version 0.10.3: 

 - fix AIO cancellations (Avi Kivity)
 - fix live migration error path on incoming
 - avoid SEGV on pci hotplug failure (Chris Wright)
 - fix serial option in -drive
 - support DDIM for option roms (Glauber Costa)
 - avoid fork/exec on pre-2.6.27 kernels with KVM (Jan Kiszka)
 - block-vpc: don't silently create smaller images than requested (Kevin Wolf)
 - Fix non-ACPI timer interrupt routing (Beth Kon)
 - hpet: fix emulation of HPET_TN_SETVAL (Jan Kiszka)
 - kvm: fix cpuid initialization (Jan Kiszka)
 - qcow2: fix corruption on little endian hosts (Kevin Wolf)
 - avoid leaing memory on hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin)
 - fix savevm/migration after hot unplug (Mark McLoughlin)
 - Fix keyboard mapping on newer Xords with non-default keymaps (balrog)
 - Make PCI config status register read-only (Anthony Liguori)
 - Fix crash on resolution change -> screen dump -> vga redraw (Avi Kivity)

version 0.10.2: 

 - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
 - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
 - live migration: improve error propogation (Glauber Costa)
 - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright)
 - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost)
 - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake)
 - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell)
 - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno)
 - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka)
 - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost)
 - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau)
 - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber)
 - fix VGA regression (malc)

version 0.10.1: 

 - virtio-net: allow masking of notifications on empty queue (Alex Williamson)
 - e1000: fix rx descriptor low threshold logic (Alex Willaimson)
 - x86 tcg: add NULL checks to lsl instruction (Jan Kiszka)
 - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with -std-vga and Windows (Avi Kivity)
 - kvm vga: fix screen corruption with Ubuntu installations (Glauber Costa)
 - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson)
 - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug)
   (Marcelo Tosatti)
 - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info).  This series of changes added
   a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori)
 - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno)
 - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori)
 - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request.  When using TCG and a dynticks
   host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite
   loop (Aurelien Jarno)
 - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka)
 - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka)
 - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka)
 - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka)
 - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka)
 - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka)
 - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel)
 - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation
   (Ryan Harper)

version 0.10.0: 

 - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
 - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
 - BSD userspace emulation
 - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
 - GDB XML register description support
 - Intel e1000 emulation
 - HPET emulation
 - VirtIO paravirtual device support
 - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
 - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
 - PCI hotplug support
 - Live migration and new save/restore formats
 - Curses display support
 - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
 - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
 - Multiple VNC clients are now supported
 - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
 - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Herv� Poussineau)
 - Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
 - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
 - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
 - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
 - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Sch�tz)
 - Many, many, bug fixes and new features

version 0.9.1: 

 - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu)
 - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong)
 - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel)
 - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau)
 - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau)
 - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif)
 - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer)
 - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski)
 - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook)
 - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm)
 - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer)
 - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer)
 - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi)
 - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf)
 - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias)
 - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl)
 - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer)
 - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh)
 - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski)
 - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery)
 - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell)
 - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster)
 - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski)

version 0.9.0: 

 - 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
 - SMM support
 - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS
 - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer)
 - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil)
 - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont)
 - m68k user support (Paul Brook)
 - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes
 - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori)
 - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori)
 - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori)

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 (Juergen Keil)
 - 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 (Juergen Keil)
 - 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.
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