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Updates after release 2.6.8.

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<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="A Window, Tux, and the BSD Daemon" width="160" height="175" align="right">
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.6.7</font><BR><BR>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.6.8</font><BR><BR>
Bochs 2.6.7 is an intermediate (bugfix+) release. Here is the summary of changes :
Bochs 2.6.8 is an intermediate (bugfix+) release. Here is the summary of changes :
<ul>
<li>CPU: implemented AVX-512BW/AVX-512DQ/AVX-512VL extensions emulation.
<li>CPU: implemented AVX512-IFMA532 instructions emulation.
<li>CPU: implemented AVX512-VBMI instructions emulation.
<li>Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness
<li>The VGA update timer and the status LED timer now always use the
realtime mode independent from the 'clock' option setting.
<li>Added native SDL2 GUI support to Bochs. To enable configure with --with-sdl2.
<li>Write enhanced gui debugger settings to file on exit and restore on
initialization.
<li>USB xHCI model now emulates a NEC/Renesas uPD720202 device
<li>ROM BIOS: fixed int74_function() for 4-byte (wheel mouse) packets.
<li>LGPL'd VGABIOS updated from CVS (fixed building VBE modes list)
<li>Visual Studio workspace files updated to VS2013Ex format.
<li>Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness (critical bugfix for x86-64 emulation).
<li>Memory type calculation support for Bochs debugger and instrumentation.
<li>Added Pentium (P54C) and Broadwell ULT CPU models.
<li>Full save/restore support for enhanced gui debugger settings.
<li>Added Oracle(tm) VM VirtualBox image support (VDI version 1.1).
<li>SB16: Ported OPL3 emulation from DOSBox.
<li>Major rewrite of the lowlevel sound code (mixer thread, more detailed configuration, WAV file output).
<li>Bugfixes in the floppy, lowlevel cdrom, rombios, slirp and win32 gui code.
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
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</ul>
</ul>
<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_7_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.6.6
<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_8_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.6.7
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.6.6</font><BR><BR>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.6.7</font><BR><BR>
Bochs 2.6.6 is a bugfix release. Here is the list of changes :
Bochs 2.6.7 is an intermediate (bugfix+) release. Here is the summary of changes :
<ul>
<li>CPU / CPUDB
<ul>
<li>Allow sandy bridge configuration even when AVX is not compiled in
</ul>
<li>Configure and compile
<ul>
<li>Fixed compilation error when 3dnow support is enabled
<li>Speedup Visual Studio build by almost 20% by adding /Gr compiler option
</ul>
<li>Misc
<ul>
<li>Fixed minimizing win32 gui window and resolution change while minimized
<li>Added compiled SeaBIOS 1.7.5 image into Bochs tree along with Bochs BIOS images
<li>Documentation fixes and updates
</ul>
<li>CPU: implemented AVX-512BW/AVX-512DQ/AVX-512VL extensions emulation.
<li>CPU: implemented AVX512-IFMA532 instructions emulation.
<li>CPU: implemented AVX512-VBMI instructions emulation.
<li>Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness
<li>The VGA update timer and the status LED timer now always use the
realtime mode independent from the 'clock' option setting.
<li>Added native SDL2 GUI support to Bochs. To enable configure with --with-sdl2.
<li>Write enhanced gui debugger settings to file on exit and restore on
initialization.
<li>USB xHCI model now emulates a NEC/Renesas uPD720202 device
<li>ROM BIOS: fixed int74_function() for 4-byte (wheel mouse) packets.
<li>LGPL'd VGABIOS updated from CVS (fixed building VBE modes list)
<li>Visual Studio workspace files updated to VS2013Ex format.
</ul>
<BR>
<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_6_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.6.5
<a href="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bochs/code/tags/REL_2_6_7_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.6.6
</a>
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