NetBSD has gethostbyname_r in libc, and it's incorrectly detected
as being sufficiently linux-like by wine, but it likely returns
different errors.
force fail the configure test for linux-like gethostbyname_r, which
already allows use of alternative networking functions.
fixes wine bug #40865: Steam does not connect to internet
bump PKGREVISION
updated by Adrian Fernandes in pkgsrc-wip
tested on netbsd/i386, netbsd/amd64.
Linux and Darwin will likely need a PLIST update.
Possibly incomplete changelog 1.7.36 -> 1.9.18:
Support for multiple kernel drivers in a single process.
More WebServices reader support.
Various improvements in joystick support.
Some more work towards the Direct3D command stream.
GDI performance improvements.
Improved IME window handling.
Compatibility fixes in the clipboard support.
Better exception handling on 64-bit.
Various improvements in joystick support.
Some more stream support in the C++ runtime.
Font embedding improvements.
More metafile support in GDI+.
Better 64-bit binary compatibility on macOS.
Performance improvements in JavaScript.
More progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
More shader instructions in Direct3D.
Performance improvements in GDI.
More shader instructions in Direct3D.
Performance improvements in GDI.
Better multi-joystick support on macOS.
Active Scripting improvements.
Additional stream support in the C++ runtime.
More Shader Model 5 support in Direct3D.
Some more write support in WebServices.
Performance improvements in GDI.
Some more progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 47.
More Shader Model 5 support in Direct3D.
Unicode data updated to Unicode 9.0.0.
Improvements to GDI paths and metafiles.
More progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
Joystick support improvements on Mac OS X.
Bug fix update of the Mono engine.
Initial version of a taskbar in desktop mode.
Fixes for right-to-left languages in Uniscribe.
More Shader Model 4 support in Direct3D.
Better metafile support in RichEdit.
Better support for long URLs in WinInet.
Various Direct3D 11 improvements.
Down-mixing support in DirectSound.
Some cosmetic improvements in desktop mode.
High resolution ("Retina") rendering option on Mac OS X.
More compatible directory enumeration.
A number of C++ runtime fixes.
Video output improvements.
More work towards the WineD3D command stream.
Service proxies in WebServices.
Query support in the builtin reg.exe utility.
Improved support for long URLs in WinInet.
More work towards the WineD3D command stream.
Bug fix update of the Mono engine.
More WebServices reader support.
Still more Shader Model 5 support.
Support for gradients in metafiles.
Improved table formatting in WinHelp.
More work towards the WineD3D command stream.
More support for Shader Model 5 shaders.
C++ exception handling on x86-64.
Support for Windows-style static import libraries.
Performance fixes in the XML writer.
Better video card detection when using Mesa.
Support for Shader Model 5 shaders.
C++ exception handling improvements.
New version of the Mono engine, with 64-bit support.
Beginnings of the WineD3D command stream.
Support for effect states in Direct3DX.
Drag & drop improvements.
Support for color glyphs and font fallbacks in DirectWrite.
Improvements to the WebServices reader.
Support for more formats in Direct3D 11.
Simplified syntax and clean up of tests marked todo.
Various bug fixes.
New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 44.
JSON support in JavaScript.
Improved line breaking in DirectWrite.
Some more write support in WebServices.
Still more Shader Model 4 instructions.
GStreamer 1.0 support.
Support for SHA hashes in BCrypt.
Synthesizing bold glyphs also for bitmap fonts.
Underlines support in DirectWrite.
Still more Shader Model 4 instructions.
A few more deferred fixes.
Support for debug registers on x86-64.
More Shader Model 4 instructions.
Support for the Mingw ARM toolchain.
A number of fixes that were deferred during code freeze.
WSAPoll implementation.
Standard font dialog fixes.
X11 drag&drop improvements.
Pulse audio driver.
Various fixes for Microsoft Office 2013 support.
Some more implementation of the Web Services DLL.
More fixes for the latest C runtime version.
Improvements to the Makefile generation.
Implementation of the TransmitFile function.
More implementation of the Web Services DLL.
Improved video decoding.
Alternative for the deprecated prelink tool.
Major Turkish translation update.
Support for the various versions of XAudio.
More implementation of the Web Services DLL.
Improved OLE object embedding.
Various code cleanups in Direct3D.
New MAINTAINERS file and Signed-off-by requirement to improve the patch review process.
Unicode data updated to Unicode 8.0.0.
Some implementation of the Web Services DLL.
More Direct3D 11 interfaces.
A few more functions in the C++ runtime.
Output standard glyph names in the PostScript driver.
XAudio2 implementation using OpenAL Soft.
Support for the new Universal C Runtime DLL.
Dropdown menu support in the standard Open Dialog.
Grayscale rendering mode in DirectWrite.
New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 40.
First steps of the Direct3D 11 implementation.
Better font matching in DirectWrite.
Support for OpenMP on ARM platforms.
DirectWrite is now good enough for rendering text in Steam.
A number of Direct2D improvements.
Some more OpenMP functions.
Support for namespaces in the IDL compiler.
Fleshed out OpenMP implementation.
I/O stream support in the MSVCIRT C++ runtime.
Support for pixel snapping in DirectWrite.
More support for OpenGL core contexts.
Text drawing in Direct2D.
Support for the new thread pool API.
Toolbar state saving.
Beginnings of an implementation for proper HID support.
Support for file objects in device drivers.
Improvements in the BITS file transfer service.
Still more progress on DirectWrite implementation.
Support for shared user data on 64-bit.
Various C++ runtime improvements.
Some more support for the 64-bit ARM platform.
Better debugging support on 64-bit Mac OS X.
Some more progress on DirectWrite implementation.
A number of RichEdit control fixes.
Beginning implementation of the old MSVCIRT C++ runtime.
More support for the COM interfaces of the RichEdit control.
Initial version of a SmartTee filter.
Some more support for the ARM64 platform.
Support for the null device kernel object.
Improved support for Shell Browser windows.
Some more API Sets libraries.
Read/write operations support with built-in devices.
Major Catalan translation update.
Support for WoW64 mode on ARM64.
Support for dynamic timezone information.
Initial desktop shell window support.
Some more Direct2D support.
More Known Folders supported in the shell.
Some more support for kernel job objects.
More MSI patches improvements.
Some theming fixes.
Support for kernel job objects.
Various fixes to the ListView control.
Better support for OOB data in Windows Sockets.
Support for DIB images in the OLE data cache.
Improved support for MSI patches.
Some fixes for ACL file permissions.
WinMM joystick support on Mac OS X.
Kerning support in DirectWrite.
Support for DirectX Media Objects filters.
Better support for animated GIFs in GdiPlus.
Improved support for Known Folders in Shell32.
New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 36.
Support for themed scrollbars.
Updated version of the Mono engine.
More compatible RPC interface for service control.
Support for X Drag & Drop version 5.
Threading fixes in IME support.
Interface change notifications.
Support for the UTF-7 encoding.
A number of graphical fixes for themed controls.
Wininet now implemented on top of Win32 sockets.
Changelog:
System emulation
Incompatible changes
SPI flash devices "160s33b", "320s33b", "640s33b", "at25df041a", "at25df321a", "at25df641", "at25fs010", "at25fs040", "at26df081a", "at26df161a", "at26df321", "at26f004", "at45db081d", "en25f32", "en25p32", "en25p64", "en25q32b", "en25q64", "gd25q32", "gd25q64", "m25p05", "m25p10", "m25p128", "m25p16", "m25p20", "m25p32", "m25p40", "m25p64", "m25p80", "m25pe16", "m25pe20", "m25pe80", "m25px32", "m25px32-s0", "m25px32-s1", "m25px64", "m45pe10", "m45pe16", "m45pe80", "mx25l12805d", "mx25l12855e", "mx25l1606e", "mx25l2005a", "mx25l25635e", "mx25l25655e", "mx25l3205d", "mx25l4005a", "mx25l6405d", "mx25l8005", "n25q032", "n25q032a11", "n25q032a13", "n25q064", "n25q064a11", "n25q064a13", "n25q128", "n25q128a11", "n25q128a13", "n25q256a11", "n25q256a13", "s25fl016k", "s25fl064k", "s25fl129p0", "s25fl129p1", "s25fl256s0", "s25fl256s1", "s25fl512s", "s25sl004a", "s25sl008a", "s25sl016a", "s25sl032a", "s25sl032p", "s25sl064a", "s25sl064p", "s25sl12800", "s25sl12801", "s70fl01gs", "sst25vf016b", "sst25vf032b", "sst25vf040b", "sst25vf080b", "sst25wf010", "sst25wf020", "sst25wf040", "sst25wf512", "w25q256", "w25q32", "w25q32dw", "w25q64", "w25q80", "w25q80bl", "w25x10", "w25x16", "w25x20", "w25x32", "w25x40", "w25x64", "w25x80" connect to a backend explicitly named by a "drive" property instead of an implicit -drive if=mtd. This only affect devices created explicitly with -device; "-drive if=mtd" still works for SPI flash devices created by boards, so this should affect almost no one.
Support for the original qcow2 image encryption has been disabled entirely from the system emulators. While QEMU 2.3 attempted to keep it available in system emulators, a bug in the code has actually broken it since 2.4, and no one complained. Supported for the format remains available only in command line tools qemu-img, qemu-io, qemu-nbd to facilitate data liberation. It is recommended to use 'qemu-img convert' to convert qcow2 encrypted images to uncrypted ones. The new LUKS encryption driver can provide a secure replacement, and a future release may integrate luks into qcow2 natively.
Autoconverge is not considered experimental anymore; autoconverge-related commands do not have the "x-" prefix anymore.
The MIPS64R6-generic CPU model was renamed to I6400.
On Q35 machines, IOMMU are now enabled with "-device iommu" instead of "-machine iommu=on".
Future incompatible changes
Three options are using different names on the command line and in configuration file. In particular:
The "acpi" configuration file section matches command-line option "acpitable";
The "boot-opts" configuration file section matches command-line option "boot";
The "smp-opts" configuration file section matches command-line option "smp".
-readconfig will standardize on the name for the command line option.
Behavior of automatic calculation of SMP topology when some SMP topology options for -smp are omitted (sockets, cores, threads) will change in the future. If guest ABI needs to be preserved on upgrades while using the SMP topology options, users should either set set all options explicitly (sockets, cores, threads), or omit all of them.
Devices "allwinner-a10", "pc87312", "ssi-sd" will be configured with explicit properties instead of implicitly. This is unlikely to affect users.
QMP command blockdev-add is still a work in progress. It doesn't support all block drivers, it lacks a matching blockdev-del, and more. It might change incompatibly.
ARM
The "virt" machine type has support for NUMA.
We now implement an emulated GICv3 interrupt controller, which is supported by the "virt" board and can be enabled with "-machine gic-version=3". Note that many guest OSes do not correctly support a GICv3 without security extensions; if your guest is Linux it must include commit 7c9b973061 "irqchip/gic-v3: Configure all interrupts as non-secure Group-1" or a backport of that patch to one of the stable branches. UEFI and FreeBSD are also known to need similar bug fixes.With a GICv3 the "virt" board now supports TCG (emulated CPU) configurations with more than 8 vCPUs.
New Xilinx Zynq ZCU102 board (-M xlnx-zcu102).
Xilinx Zynq boards have experimental support for ARM Security Extensions.
Xilinx Zynq MP supports DisplayPort (graphics and audio) and DDC (used for EDID info).
i.MX6?
KVM
Xilinx Zynq boards support KVM on AArch64 hosts.
MIPS
Support for 10-bit ASIDs
The MIPS64R6-generic CPU model was renamed to I6400.
Initial GIC support
Support for IEE 754-2008
PowerPC
Many TCG fixes.
mac99 machine can now boot MacOS >= 9.1
pSeries
Significant performance improvements for the spapr-llan device.
Support for CPU hotplug.
Performance improvements for VFIO through dynamic DMA windows.
s390
Support for runtime instrumentation
The IPL firmware can boot from devices in subchannel sets > 0
Major refactoring and improvements of the s390x-specific PCI code
Optionally, zPCI specific 'uid' and 'fid' attributes may be provided
Guest-acknowledged hotunplug (rather than 'surprise removal' only)
bootindex support for IPL from SCSI devices
SPARC
Fix for sun4m Solaris 9 "Segmentation fault" regression (see bug #1588328)
x86
CPU hot-remove support based on generic device_add/device_del interface
support arbitrary CPU adding/removal
Limitation: 1st (boot) CPU isn't removable
KVM
Support for LMCE (local MCE) virtualization, which will require Linux 4.8. LMCE can be enabled through "-cpu model,lmce" on all CPUs as long as the kernel supports it.
Device emulation and assignment
ACPI
NVDIMM devices are now described in the ACPI tables and support labels.
new ACPI CPU hotplug MMIO interface since 2.7 machine types for PC/Q35
more than 255 CPUs support
CPU hot-remove support
Guest side CPU hotplug status notification via _OST events
Block devices
Removed dataplane blockers? (Fam)
New -device properties replacing -drive properties?
virtio-blk now supports multiqueue through a "num-queues" device property.
Network devices
New device e1000e for Intel 82574 NIC.
QEMU now includes iPXE ROMs for vmxnet3 devices.
SCSI
scsi-block now passes sense data correctly to the guest, so that it can support for example persistent reservations.
Support for passthrough of SCSI scanner.
PCI/PCIe
On Q35 machines, IOMMU are now enabled with "-device iommu" instead of "-machine iommu=on".
USB
Support for Xen paravirtualized USB
usb-bot and usb-uas now support hotplug.
VFIO
Support for device assignment of Intel integrated graphics devices.
The SR-IOV capability is now hidden to guests when passing through a physical function.
virtio
Initial reconnect support for vhost-user.
Support for busy polling on vhost-net devices ("-netdev tap,...,poll-us=n").
virtio-gpu multi-monitor fixes
virtio-gpu 2d live migration support
Character devices
QEMU for Windows: Fixed handling of files used for character devices – they are now truncated by default like on Linux.
TLS support
Support for overriding the TLS property, for example "-object tls-creds-x509,...,priority=NORMAL:-VERS-SSL3.0" disables SSL 3.0. This can be used both to use a non-standard weaker set of prioririties, or to enforce a stronger default for QEMU. The default priority can also be specified through "--tls-priority=VALUE" at configure time.
GUI
A new option "-machine graphics=on|off" lets you disable graphics in the VM like "-nographic" (e.g. OpenBIOS will use the serial port for boot messages) but without an implicit "-display none".
Monitor
new 'info hotpluggable-cpus' and corresponding 'query-hotpluggable-cpus' QMP commands
to list present/possible CPUs with properties necessary to add a CPU instance using device_add for a given '-smp ...' layout
supported by x86 and SPAPR softmmu targets
Migration
Autoconverge is not considered experimental anymore. Autoconverge-related commands do not have the "x-" prefix.
TODO: TLS support
Network
User-mode networking supports DHCPv6, RDNSS, DNS6 and link-local DNS addresses.
Socket networking in TCP mode can now run over IPv6. UDP and multicast modes do not support IPv6 yet.
Block devices and tools
New "bench" command in qemu-img .
The "write" command in qemu-io grew "-f" and "-z -u" options.
TODO: Block job ids?
TCG
Speed improvements around 20%.
Fixes for self-modifying code.
Tracing
TODO: dfilter
TODO: tracing for qemu-io, qemu-img and qemu-nbd
CLI options
'-cpu cpu-model,feat1=foo,...' acts as a set of '-global cpu-model-type.feat1=foo' options, which affects initial CPUs as well as all CPUs created with help of -device/device_add/cpu-add for a given cpu-model
doesn't apply to SPARC target which uses legacy -cpu semantics as its features haven't been converted to properties.
Today marks the end of the southern winter/northern summer, and
time for the hotly anticipated August MAME release. Possibly most
importantly, we've fixed the issues that were causing menus to
display off the edge of the screen on Windows (MT06335). We've
integrated a fix for Aimtrack Dual Lightguns on windows from new
contributor Pitou, and the behaviour of XAudio2 sound output should
be much improved when adjusting game speed to match monitor refresh
rate. Mouse behaviour on SDL builds (Linux/Mac) is also improved.
Thanks very much to all the users who reported issues and helped
out testing fixes.
We have lots of newly working computer systems to show off: Xerox
Alto-II, TeleNova Compis (a 16-bit educational computer from Sweden),
Victor 9000, Wang Professional Computer (DOS-based but not IBM
compatible), Atari Portfolio (of Terminator 2 fame), and Vector-06C
(a mass-produced Soviet home computer). Newly working games include
Namco Techno Drive, the original Japanese release of Orca's River
Patrol, Korean puzzle game Intergirl, and gambling game Magical
Butterfly. Speaking of gambling games, this release is a huge update
for BFM, JPM and Maygay fruit machines. John Parker has created a
tool that converts MFME layouts to MAME layouts and contributed
layouts for hundreds of games. This should make it far easier and
more rewarding to work on these drivers.
MAME now includes a driver for a VGM music file player virtual
machine (VGM is a popular video game music file format). This
feature is primarily intended as a way for developers to test sound
cores and do A/B comparisons, as it's a lot easier to just load a
VGM test case than to play a game until it uses the sound chip
feature you want to test, but it's also a convenient way to enjoy
a wide variety of video game music. You can try it out by running
mame vgmplay -bitb file.vgm or choosing "VGM player" from the list
of systems and loading a VGM file in the appropriate media slot
through the internal file manager.
The generic serial terminal and keyboard devices have been greatly
improved. This should make computers controlled via serial port
far more usable. (Keyboard layout, key repeat, simultaneous
keypresses, local echo, auto CR/LF and audible bell have all been
improved and/or made configurable.)
There are a number of improvements for MAME developers and
contributors. We now allow Unicode characters in C++ and Lua source
comments. This can make documentation clearer when referring to
original machine labels. Source files must be encoded in UTF-8 with
no initial byte order mark. Non-ASCII characters are allowed in
comments, but not in most other parts of source files. Source and
comments must still be written in English. We've improved build
times a little, and migrated a lot of MAME-specific constructs to
standard C++14 library features. A number of MAME APIs have been
streamlined and modernised. The palette viewer now shows some
details about the colour swatch under the mouse pointer (press F4
during gameplay to show, this may be interesting to regular users
as well).
Of course, this release also comes with more alternate versions of
games supported (including The NewZealand Story, Metamorphic Force,
Super Hang-On, Terminator 2, Golden Tee '98, Gulf Storm, and Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles), and other fixes and improvements for machines
already emulated by MAME (including Midway V-Unit outputs/layouts
from Risugami and input/output improvements for gambling/medal
games from AJR).
It's the last Wednesday of the month, and time for another MAME
release. We'd like to thank the Debian team for their help during
this development cycle: they've provided patches allowing MAME to
build cleanly on several more platforms, and arranged access to
IBM-sponsored POWER8 machines so we could improve our PowerPC
support.
The popular crt-geom and crt-geom-deluxe shaders have been ported
to BGFX and are now distributed with MAME, thanks to cgwg. The BGFX
versions of these shaders allow live adjustment of effect parameters
through the slider controls menu.
Interesting newly supported games include rare Soviet arcade games
Gorodki and Kot Rybolov, gambling mahjong game Swing Gal, and
alternate versions of Beastie Feastie and Raiden Fighters 2. Graphical
issues have been fixed in Seibu Kaihatsu's Denjin Makai, Godzilla,
Legionnaire and Zero Team, and there are some improvements to the
Tandy CoCo 3 palette. A few remaining gameplay issues in Taito's
Operation Wolf were resolved.
Thanks to a huge group effort involving some of our highly valued
external contributors as well some MAME team members, we've got
some visible progress on the Sun SPARCstation drivers. The SPARCstation
IPC (sun4_40 driver) now passes its self-tests and allows you to
use the OpenBoot interactive Forth interpreter at the ok prompt.
Note that there are still issues with SCSI emulation, so it won't
boot from and emulated hard disk or CD-ROM. In other news for
emulation of professional systems, MAME now supports the TeleVideo
990 and 995-65 terminals.
For people using CRT monitors and/or running games at native
resolution, we've added a lot of characters to the uismall.bdf font
supplied with MAME. It now covers most European languages using
Latin and Cyrillic scripts, as well as modern Greek and half-width
katakana. Changes were also made to improve legibility.
For developers, scrolling and hilighting in the state (registers)
view have been fixed, and viewing memory in the debugger no longer
causes spurious side effects like bank switches in systems like the
Apple II and Osborne 1. There's also been a lot of refactoring and
modernisation, particularly in the netlist and UI code.
Get ready for your vacation and grab MAME 0.175!
We're proud to say MAME now supports a number of previously unemulated
prototypes, alternate versions of games, and unusual systems.
Prototypes include the super-rare Konami Kyuukoukabakugekitai, Home
Data's Mahjong Joshi Pro-wres Give Up 5 Byou Mae, and an early
Japanese version of E.D.F.: Earth Defense Force. Atari Moto Frenzy,
previously lacking protection emulation, is now fully playable.
We've also added a number of gambling games, including some Flaming
7's variants.
Many more Game Boy peripherals are now supported, including real-time
clocks, light sensors and tilt sensors. This makes several previously
unsupported games fully playable.
This release includes improvements to the Sega Master System and
SG-1000 emulation, including better SG-1000 expansion slot support,
and drivers with correct clock speeds for South American Master
System variants.
There's some big news in Sun emulation: all sun3 models will now
POST, MAME has a SPARCv7 CPU core, and there has been substantial
progress towards emulating the SPARCstation 1 (sun4c). Using unidasm
(built with TOOLS=1) you can disassemble SPARCv7 SPARCv7 or SPARCv9
code, incuding all VIS variants up to VIS-3B.
As usual, there are many emulation improvements, including fixes
for keyboard controls in some TRS-80 games, and better Seibu COP
emulation in Legionnaire, Heated Barrel and Godzilla.
In less visible changes, MAME's memory system got a nice cleanup
exposing a number of existing issues which are now fixed, and the
netlist-based discrete circuit simulation code has had a major
overhaul with lots of performance improvements. There are a number
of improvements to MAME's debugger modules in this release,
particularly the imgui-based debugger.
Keystone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture assembler
framework.
It offers some unparalleled features:
* Multi-architecture, with support for Arm, Arm64 (AArch64/Armv8), Hexagon,
Mips, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ & X86 (include 16/32/64bit).
* Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.
* Implemented in C/C++ languages, with bindings for Python, NodeJS, Ruby,
Go & Rust available.
* Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris
confirmed).
* Thread-safe by design.
* Open source - with a dual license.
Keystone is based on LLVM, but it goes much further with a lot more to offer.
This package ships with Python bindings.
Originally packaged in pkgsrc-wip by myself.
Keystone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture assembler
framework.
It offers some unparalleled features:
* Multi-architecture, with support for Arm, Arm64 (AArch64/Armv8), Hexagon,
Mips, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ & X86 (include 16/32/64bit).
* Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.
* Implemented in C/C++ languages, with bindings for Python, NodeJS, Ruby,
Go & Rust available.
* Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris
confirmed).
* Thread-safe by design.
* Open source - with a dual license.
Keystone is based on LLVM, but it goes much further with a lot more to offer.
Originally packaged in pkgsrc-wip by myself.
Remove merged patches.
We're pleased to announce the release of MAME 0.174!
This new release includes some exciting newly-playable machines,
including the Tiger Game.com handheld and the ultra-rare Seibu
Kaihatsu title, Metal Freezer.
Meanwhile, the Apple 2 driver now supports the Mockingboard 4C card,
and the regressions in the IT Eagle (Golden Tee Fore) driver's
colors from the previous release have been fixed.
Last but not least, there should be better support for DirectInput
8 on Windows, including supporting older game controllers which
previously only worked using the DirectInput 7 module. If you still
have a controller which DirectInput 8 does not support that you
regularly use, please contact us so that we know what controllers
still do not work.
Changelog:
System emulation
Incompatible changes
The aio=native option to "-drive" now requires the cache=none option, instead of silently disabling itself for other cache modes. The newly invalid combination had been warning since QEMU 2.3.
Specifying block device parameter aio=native is now an error on POSIX systems if qemu is compiled without libaio support. The newly invalid combination had been warning since QEMU 2.3.
The experimental x-drive option for the sdhci-pci device has been removed. Instead of passing a drive directly to the SD controller device you now must create an SD card object (which will automatically be plugged into the SD controller), so "-device sdhci-pci,x-drive=mydrive -drive id=mydrive,[...]" becomes "-device sdhci-pci -device sd-card,drive=mydrive -drive id=mydrive,[...]".
The s390-virtio machine has been removed.
Machine types pc-q35-1.4, pc-q35-1.5, pc-q35-1.6, pc-q35-1.7, pc-q35-2.0, pc-q35-2.1, pc-q35-2.2 and pc-q35-2.3 have been removed.
The "virt" machine type's flash device has changed when TrustZone is active ("-machine virt,secure=on"). The first flash device is only available in secure memory, while the second is available in non-secure memory too.
Future incompatible changes
Three options are using different names on the command line and in configuration file. In particular:
The "acpi" configuration file section matches command-line option "acpitable";
The "boot-opts" configuration file section matches command-line option "boot";
The "smp-opts" configuration file section matches command-line option "smp".
-readconfig will standardize on the name for the command line option.
Behavior of automatic calculation of SMP topology when some SMP topology options for -smp are omitted (sockets, cores, threads) will change in the future. If guest ABI needs to be preserved on upgrades while using the SMP topology options, users should either set set all options explicitly (sockets, cores, threads), or omit all of them.
The original qcow2 image encryption is fatally flawed, and support for it will be disabled entirely from the system emulators. It'll remain available only in command line tools qemu-img, qemu-io, qemu-nbd to facilitate data liberation. It is recommended to use 'qemu-img convert' to convert qcow2 encrypted images to uncrypted ones. The new LUKS encryption driver can provide a secure replacement if raw files are acceptable, while a future release will integrate luks into qcow2 natively.
A few devices will be configured with explicit properties instead of implicitly. Unlikely to affect users; for the full list, see the 2.3 ChangeLog.
QMP command blockdev-add is still a work in progress. It doesn't support all block drivers, it lacks a matching blockdev-del, and more. It might change incompatibly.
ARM
Support for a separate EL3 address space
System mode supports BE8 and BE32. Note that qemu-system-arm can emulate both big-endian and little-endian guests (unlike user-mode emulation which has separate qemu-arm and qemu-armeb binaries).
Support for the SETEND instruction, used most notably on Raspbian through the arm-mem library (previously known as libcofi).
Faster boot thanks to DMA support in fw_cfg
The "virt" machine type supports a virtual power button and the "system_powerdown" monitor command
The "virt" machine type supports configuring network cards with -nic in addition to -netdev
The RAM limit for the "virt" machine type is now 255GB
The "xlnz-zynqmp" machine type now includes SPI controllers
The "xlnx-ep108" machine type now supports SPI flash
New partial Raspberry Pi 2 emulation with "raspi2" machine type. For now, it can boot older releases of Windows and Raspbian, but lacks a number of devices including USB.
New palmetto-bmc machine type using the new, partial ASPEED AST2400 SoC implementation
KVM
Support for guest debugging (software and hardware breakpoints, single step) on AArch64
MIPS
Support for FPU and MSA in KVM guests
Support for R6 Virtual Processors
Initial support for Cluster Power Controller and Global Configuration Registers allowing the guest to control the start of Virtual Processors
Support for Inter-Thread Communication Unit
Support for MAAR registers in P5600 CPU
PowerPC
Improved support for migration of g3beige and mac99 machines
Fix serial ports for g3beige and mac99 machines (OpenBIOS)
The gdb stub supports the VSX instruction set extensions
pSeries
pSeries machine types starting at pseries-2.6 use XHCI as the USB host controller instead of OHCI
Support for more hypercalls (H_SET_SPRG0, H_SET_DABR, H_SET_XDABR and H_PAGE_INIT)
Support for EEH on assigned PCI devices can use the normal spapr-pci-host-bridge instead of the special spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge.
s390
Fixes and improvements in s390x PCI support
Support for hotplug of s390x cpus via cpu-add
Support for booting from virtio-scsi devices in the s390-ccw bios
SH
SPARC
sun4m: Fix for ldstub instruction resolves several 32-bit Solaris bugs (MUTEX_HELD hang, libC error, Java WebStart segfault)
sun4u: FreeBSD 10.3+ can now run under qemu-system-sparc64 in -nographic mode
TileGX
Tricore
Support for context management, illegal opcode and opd traps
Support for FPU instructions
x86
TCG
Support for the XSAVE/XSAVEOPT, MPX, FSGSBASE and PKE features
KVM
Support for "split irqchip". In this mode, QEMU emulates the IOAPIC, PIC (i8259) and PIT (i8254) devices while leaving the local APIC emulation to the kernel. This mode reduces the attack surface of KVM.
Support for the new PKU feature found in some Skylake processors
Support for migrating the TSC rate
Xen
Q35
Support resume (S3)
Support for legacy Windows guests (XP/2003)
Device emulation and assignment
New IPMI emulation subsystem. QEMU can now emulate an internal BMC or attach to an external BMC simulator such as OpenIPMI's lanserv. IPMI however is not yet exposed in SMBIOS and ACPI tables (do we want to docume?)
FIXME: what's the state of nvdimm?
ACPI
The floppy disk controller's characteristics are now exposed in the ACPI tables, which makes it possible to use floppies on Windows together with UEFI firmware.
Block devices
The floppy disk consk or an empty disk to a 2.88 MB disk
Improved compatibility of the SD device model with various operating systems and firmwares
The NVMe device supports the "bootindex" property.
The SDHCI device supports reset.
ivshmem
No longer available on hosts lacking eventfd(2), because inter-vm interrupts don't work there
New devices ivshmem-plain and ivshmem-doorbell, fully backwards compatible for guests, notable differences to ivshmem:
PCI revision is 1 instead of 0
ivshmem role=master becomes master=on, role=peer becomes master=off
ivshmem x-memdev=ID becomes ivshmem-plain memdev=ID
ivshmem shm=NAME,size=SZ becomes ivshmem-plain memdev=ID, with -object memory-backend-file,id=ID,mem-path=/dev/mem/NAME,size=SZ,share
ivshmem chardev=ID becomes ivshmem-doorbell,chardev=ID
Property ioeventfd defaults to on instead of off
ivshmem-plain never has MSI-X capability, and ivshmem-doorbell always has MSI-X capability
Device ivshmem is deprecated, and its experimental property x-memdev is gone
Interrupting a peer that reuses an unplugged peer's ID works again (broken in v1.2.0)
Unplug no longer destroys the character device, for consistency with other devices
The funny "no shared memory, yet" state is no longer guest-visible, and can no longer fail or mess up migration
Guests may require PCI revision 1 to make sure they're not exposed to the funny state
docs/specs/ivshmem-spec.txt rewritten for completeness and accuracy.
SCSI
Support for the LSI SAS1068 HBA (also known as "MPT Fusion"). Note that some operating systems will not recognize disks attached to this adapter, unless the disks are assigned a world-wide name (WWN).
PCI/PCIe
PCIe Multi-root support (using the new pxb-pcie root-compex)
USB
MTP: initial support for events
VFIO
Support for AMD XGBE platform passthrough
New sysfsdev property provides a more general way to specify the device to attach to.
Provided PCI option ROMs are fixed to include the same vendor and device id as the device exposed to the guest. This facilitates changing the ids of the devices.
virtio
Performance improvements via optimized vring accesses
The balloon driver statistics now include the amount of available memory (corresponding to "Available" in /proc/meminfo for Linux guests).
Character devices
The socket character device backend can now enable TLS over TCP connections, acting either as a TLS server:
$QEMU -object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=server \
-chardev socket,id=s0,host=127.0.0.1,port=9000,tls-creds=tls0,server \
-device isa-serial,chardev=s0 \
...other args...
or a TLS client:
$QEMU -object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=client \
-chardev socket,id=s0,host=127.0.0.1,port=9000,tls-creds=tls0 \
-device isa-serial,chardev=s0 \
...other args...
If operating in server mode, the same set of TLS credentials can be used for both character devices and the VNC server
All character devices can have their output logged to a plain file
$QEMU -chardev stdio,id=mon0,logfile=monitor.log \
-mon chardev=mon0 \
...other args...
will result in logging of all output on the HMP monitor. The logappend parameter controls whether the file is truncated at startup, defaulting to append.
GUI
SDL2 and SPICE now support OpenGL and virgl. For SPICE, Unix sockets are the only usable transport when OpenGL is enabled.
The "-vnc" and "-display vnc" options support ipv4=off and ipv6=off. Previously, only "ipv4" and "ipv6" were available.
Support getting input events directly from linux evdev devices, using "-object input-linux,id=$name,evdev=/dev/input/event$nr"
Support for ncurses on Windows.
Monitor
Support for a new "detach" option to "dump-guest-memory". The option dumps memory in the background. Progress can be queried using the new commands "info dump" (human monitor) and "query-dump" (QMP), as well as through the QMP event DUMP_COMPLETED.
Support for a new command "input-send-event" replacing the previous experimental command "x-input-send-event".
The human monitor command "drive_add -n" allows creating block devices that do not have a BlockBackend (similar to QMP blockdev-add).
Migration
Postcopy is not experimental anymore; the x-postcopy-ram capability was renamed to postcopy-ram.
Network
SLIRP now supports IPv6 for ICMP, UDP, TCP and TFTP.
mirror filter which can mirror traffic from netdev to socket chardev, vice versa.
redirector filter which can redirect traffic from netdev to socket chardev, vice versa.
Secret passing system
There is a new standard mechanism for securely passing secret credentials to QEMU, which will be used in combination with other subsystems. For example, network block device passwords, block device decryption passphrases, or TLS private key passwords can all use the same mechanism.
Passing credentials inline (insecure, only for developer testing)
$QEMU -object secret,id=sec0,data=letmein
Passing credentials via a plain file
$QEMU -object secret,id=sec0,file=mypassword.txt
Passing credentials via a base64 encoded file
$QEMU -object secret,id=sec0,file=mypassword.txt,format=base64
Passing credentials inline, encrypted with a master key (recommended for management apps)
$QEMU -object secret,id=master0,file=mykey.b64,format=base64 \
-object secret,id=sec0,data=[base64 ciphertext],\
keyid=master0,iv=[base64 IV],format=base64
TLS credential handling
It is now possible to use encrypted TLS private keys with credentials for TLS servers/clients in QEMU. The password for unlocking the private key is provided by a secret object whose id is specified via the passwordid' property
$QEMU -object secret,id=tlskey0,file=mypassword.txt \
-object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=server,passwordid=tlskey0 \
...other args...
Block devices
Block device throttling now support specifying a burst length as well. While previously the burst could only be specified as a total number of IOPS (e.g. 10000 IOPS), more complex specifications such as "10000 IOPS for 10 seconds" are now possible. Note that, because of the implementation of the algorithm, a guest that is allowed "10000 IOPS for 10 seconds" will also be allowed to perform for example 5000 IOPS for 20 seconds.
The curl block device driver now supports HTTP authentication and HTTP proxy authentication via the new properties 'username', 'password-secret', 'proxy-username' and 'proxy-password-secret'.
$QEMU -object secret,id=sec0,file=password.txt \
-object secret,id=sec1,file=proxy-password.txt \
-drive driver=http,host=localhost,port=443,username=fred,password-secret=sec0,proxy-username=bob,proxy-password-secret=sec1 \
...other args...
The RBD block device driver can now use the secret object type to securely receive the authentication password without exposing it in the command line args
$QEMU -object secret,id=sec0,file=password.b64,format=base64 \
-drive driver=rbd,filename=rbd:pool/image:id=myname:auth_supported=cephx,password-secret=sec0 \
...other args...
The iSCSI block device driver can now use the secret object type to securely receive the authentication password without exposing it in the command line args
$QEMU -object secret,id=sec0,file=password.txt \
-iscsi user=fred,password-secret=sec0 \
-drive file=iscsi://192.168.122.1:3260/iqn.2013-12.com.example%3Aiscsi-chap-netpool/1
NB this syntax requires that all iSCSI backed drives use the same password
The qemu-io tool gained support for new '--object' and '--image-opts' arguments. The --object argument allows 'secret' and 'tls-creds-x509' objects to be defined for use in association with a block device backend. The '--image-opts' argument instructs qemu-io to parse the image string as a set of image options, instead of a plain filename. For example, to connect qemu-io to an NBD server using TLS
qemu-io -c "read 0 512" \
--object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=client \
--image-opts driver=nbd,host=localhost,port=10809,tls-creds=tls0
The qemu-nbd tool gained support for new '--object' and '--image-opts' arguments. The --object argument allows 'secret' and 'tls-creds-x509' objects to be defined for use in association with a block device backend or the NBD server. The '--image-opts' argument instructs qemu-io to parse the image string as a set of image options, instead of a plain filename. For example, to connect qemu-nbd to an HTTP server with authentication and export it over NBD using TLS
qemu-nbd --readonly \
--object secret,id=sec0,file=passwd.txt \
--object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=server \
--image-opts driver=http,url=http://some.random.host/some/image,username=fred,password-secret=sec0
The qemu-img tool gained support for new '--object' and '--image-opts' arguments. The --object argument allows 'secret' and 'tls-creds-x509' objects to be defined for use in association with a block device backend or the NBD server. The '--image-opts' argument instructs qemu-io to parse the image string as a set of image options, instead of a plain filename. For example, to a remote HTTP server with authentication
qemu-img info --object secret,id=sec0,file=passwd.txt \
--image-opts driver=http,url=http://some.random.host/some/image,username=fred,password-secret=sec0
Support for deleting snapshots on Sheepdog devices.
The NBD client and server now support use of TLS. When enabled, the server will mandate that the client also enable TLS and drop any client which attempts to continue in plain text. To run a qemu-nbd server with TLS:
qemu-nbd --object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=server \
--tls-creds tls0 \
/path/to/disk/image
To connect to a server that requires TLS with qemu-img:
qemu-img info --object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=client \
--image-opts driver=nbd,host=localhost,port=10809,tls-creds=tls0
To start a VM pointing to the NBD server
$QEMU -object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=$HOME/.pki/qemutls,endpoint=client \
-drive driver=nbd,host=localhost,port=10809,tls-creds=tls0 \
...other args...
The NBD server gained support for specifying an export name. When the client negotiates use of the new style NBD protocol the default export name is "". The --exportname argument allows this to be customized:
qemu-nbd --exportname myvol /path/to/myvol.qcow2
QEMU gained support for volumes formatted with the LUKSv1 data format. To format a new LUKS volume
qemu-img create -f luks \
--object secret,id=sec0,file=passphrase.txt \
-o key-secret=sec0 \
demo.luks 10G
To boot a guest from a LUKS volume:
$QEMU -object secret,id=sec0,file=passphrase.txt \
-drive driver=luks,key-secret=sec0,file=demo.luks \
...other args...
The LUKS implementation is intended to be compatible with that used by cryptsetup/dm-crypt, so it should be possible to use disk images interchangeably between them. The only caveat is that some less common cipher/hash algorithms are not yet supported by QEMU. It is also not yet possible to manage key-slots with qemu-img.
TCG
Record/replay support extended to cover character devices.
Tracing
The "stderr" tracing backend was replaced by the "log" tracing backend, which is now the default. This backend prints tracing messages to the destination specified with the "-D" option.
In addition to the existing "-trace file=...", tracepoints can be enabled using "-trace [enable=]...". The new option also supports globbing, as in "-trace bdrv_aio_*".
In addition to the existing "-trace file=...", tracepoints can be enabling using "-d trace:...". This option also supports globbing, as in "-d trace:bdrv_aio_*".
When using "-daemonize", the "-D" option also provides the file to which QEMU's stderr output will be redirected.
TCG supports a new "-dfilter" option to limit exec, out_asm, op and op_opt logging to a range of guest physical addresses. ARM also applies the filter to in_asm logging; this will be extended to other targets in future releases (FIXME: probably should do it now instead...)
A "%d" substring in the log file name is replaced with QEMU's pid.
User-mode emulation
The default CPU for ppc64 and ppc64le is now POWER8
To quote abs:
I don't know why this package has a manually maintained list of gcc versions
to exclude LTO on, but for now just add 4.8.5. Fixed build on netbsd-7
No PKGREVISION bump as will only affect platforms which did not build before
It's the end of another month, and time for a new MAME release.
This time there are more improvements for capabilities we have added
in previous versions.
MAME now includes ports of some popular shaders for the BGFX renderer,
including the EAGLE, HQx and xBR scaling effects. Please be aware
that the BGFX renderer is still a work in progress, and you may
experience some stability issues when using it.
This release introduces a new cheat engine based on the Lua scripting
language. This opens the door to exciting new possibilities. One
of the most significant improvements is better support for systems
with banked memory, including many 8-bit home computers like the
Apple II family.
MAME's archive file handling has been improved in a number of ways.
ZIP64 format is now supported, allowing MAME to archives over 4GiB
in size. This mean that, for example, large flyer collections don't
need to be unzipped for use with the internal UI. 7zip support has
been updated for the latest 7zip release, including new archive
features and many bug fixes. We've also fixed a number of bugs in
the internal file browser.
Of course this release also includes many other improvements from
the MAME team and external contributors.
It's with great pleasure that we announce the release of MAME 0.172.
This release includes several notable things above and beyond the
usual assortment of new systems, new features, and bug fixes.
Most importantly, this is the first release of MAME since the change
to a proper open-source licensing scheme as announced earlier this
month. From this release onward, MAME will be distributed under a
GPL-2.0+ license, with the bulk of code being covered under a
3-clause BSD license.
MAME now has an up-to-date set of documentation! You can find it
under the "Documentation" drop-down at the top of this site, or go
to http://docs.mamedev.org/ to check it out.
Due to the large number of configuration changes made in this
version, we strongly advise all users to delete their existing INI
configuration files and re-create them using the "-cc" option.
In case you are just overwriting previous release files note that
you better remove plugin folder first
For those of you running MAME on authentic CRT monitors, MAME now
incorporates a number of scaling-related features from GroovyMAME,
thanks to its author being brought on board the team, which should
help reduce user fragmentation. Please note: If you have issues
with MAME 0.172's graphics output, please ensure that "unevenstretch"
is set to 1 in your MAME configuration.
MAME 0.172 will also introduce a new high-score saving system using
Lua scripting. The feature is still experimental, but it's something
to keep an eye on for interesting future developments!
This version additionally marks the creation of a cross-platform
data-driven shader system via the BGFX renderer, which allows you
to apply shader effects per-screen, and more.
* Fix DISTNAME as original
Changelog:
Add instructions to build on Windows
Remove libuuid dependency and NIO Multicast implementation that depends on it. NIO Multicast is never used and maybe not even functional. This will simplify the compilation requirements, especially on Windows with Cygwin
EthernetSwitch: Allow to choose ethertype for QinQ outer tag
modern compilers, turn off -Werror globally and avoid the creeping
failures each compiler update (this affects both gcc and clang.)
apply -fno-strict-aliasing for all foreseeable future gcc versions.
this now works with gcc 5.3.
ok wiz, joerg
