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authorJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2020-10-26 15:51:31 -0400
committerLaurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>2020-10-27 16:48:50 +0100
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CHANGELOG: remove disused file
There's no reason to keep this here; the versions described are ancient. Everything here is still mirrored on https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/old if anyone is curious; otherwise, use the git history. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20201026195131.13848-1-jsnow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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-This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
-For changelog information for later releases, see
-https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for
-more detailed information.
-
-
-version 0.12.0:
-
- - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0
- - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori)
- - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino)
- - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino)
- - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino)
- - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori)
- - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange)
- - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela)
- - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie)
- - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori)
- - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino)
- - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange)
- - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf)
- - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf)
- - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini)
- - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka)
- - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori)
- - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf)
- - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf)
- - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf)
- - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara)
- - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock)
- - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson)
- - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil)
- - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd)
- - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara)
- - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin)
-
-version 0.12.0-rc2:
-
- - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa)
- - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino)
- - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman)
- - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann)
- - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka)
- - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster)
- - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov)
- - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie)
- - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori)
- - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook)
- - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster)
- - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster)
- - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster)
- - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino)
- - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino)
- - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara)
- - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka)
- - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno)
-
-version 0.10.2:
-
- - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori)
- - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa)
- - live migration: improve error propagation (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: 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 (Hervé 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" Schütz)
- - 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 mechanism.
- - 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 privilege 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 through 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 dependency
- - 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.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 7497709291..58b9f2dc15 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ For additional information on bug reporting consult:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_
+ChangeLog
+=========
+
+For version history and release notes, please visit
+`<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/>`_ or look at the git history for
+more detailed information.
+
+
Contact
=======