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+This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
+For changelog information for later releases, see
+http://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 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 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.