- more updates after release 2.5.1

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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.5</font><BR><BR>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.5.1</font><BR><BR>
Bochs 2.5.1 is a bugfix release. Here is the summary of changes :
<ul>
<li> CPU / CPUDB
<ul>
<li> ! Added Athlon64 (Venice) configuration to the CPUDB
<li> BMI: fixed EFLAGS after BMI instructions
<li> MSR: access to AMD extended MSR space was impossible due to a bug in RDMSR/WRMSR
<li> VMX: fixed VMFUNC instruction behavior to align with Intel SDM revision 041
<li> VMX: fixed Bochs PANIC when doing I/O access crossing VMX I/O permission bitmaps
<li> VMX: fixed VirtualBox VMX guest Guru Meditation - FS.BASE got corrupted after
saving/restoring unusable FS selector
<li> VMX: fixed VirtualBox failures with VMX+EPT enabled
<li> Better report of supported CPUID features when not using pre-defined CPUID profile
</ul>
<li> Debugger / Instrumentation
<ul>
<li> fixed typo - closing SF bug [3461405] step all command fails in SMP mode
<li> instrumentation: added special indication for indirect call/jump
</ul>
<li> Configure and compile
<ul>
<li> fixed compilation err in instrumentation call (tasking.cc)
<li> fixed compilation err with x86 hw breakpoint enabled and CPU_LEVEL &lt; 6
<li> fixed compilation issue under win32 --with-nogui
<li> added missing dependencies for cdrom_osx.o
<li> removed very old deprecated configure options from configure script
</ul>
- I/O Devices
<ul>
<li> fixed possible failures of PCI DMA transfers
<li> VVFAT: several fixes in the optional write support (passes test with XP)
<li> USB UHCI: some fixes to make it work in XP guest
<li> removed devices 'acpi', 'ioapic' and 'pci_ide' from optional plugin control
to avoid trouble
</ul>
- Config interface / GUI and display libraries
<ul>
<li> added VMX .bochsrc option to control VMX support on runtime
<li> fix for x86-64 .bochsrc option parsing (patch from @SF)
<li> fix for @SF bug: Crash on WIN2K - ID: 3454214
<li> added 'nokeyrepeat' option for the SDL and win32 gui
</ul>
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
<ul>
<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
<li> devices:
<ul>
<li> chipset: PCI, ACPI
<li> video: Bochs VBE and Cirrus SVGA
<li> sound: SB16
<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI)
<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI and 6 device types
</ul>
<li> Display libraries:
<ul>
<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, wx, x
<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
</ul>
<a href="http://bochs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bochs/tags/REL_2_5_1_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.5
</a>
<BR/><BR/>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.5</font><BR><BR>
Nine months after the last intermediate one and the <b>switch to SVN version control</b>
we have a new stable release. Here is the summary of changes :
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<li> LGPL'd VGABIOS updated to version 0.7a
</ul>
The binary packages for Linux and Windows are built with these featues :
<ul>
<li> x86-64 emulation with all optimizations enabled
<li> devices:
<ul>
<li> chipset: PCI, ACPI
<li> video: Bochs VBE and Cirrus SVGA
<li> sound: SB16
<li> network: NE2000 (ISA/PCI)
<li> USB: OHCI, UHCI and 6 device types
</ul>
<li> Display libraries:
<ul>
<li> Linux: nogui, rfb, sdl, term, wx, x
<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
</ul>
<BR>
<a href="http://bochs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bochs/tags/REL_2_5_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.4.6
</a>
<BR/><BR/>
<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.4.6</font><BR><BR>
<ul>
<li> Support more host OS to run on:
<ul>
<li> Include win64 native binary in the release.
<li> Fixed failures on big endian hosts.
</ul>
<li> BIOS: Support for up to 2M ROM BIOS images.
<li> GUI: select mouse capture toggle method in .bochsrc.
<li> Ported most of Qemu's 'virtual VFAT' block driver<br>
(except runtime write support, but plus FAT32 suppport)
<li> Added write protect option for floppy drives.
<li> Bugfixes / improved internal debugger + instrumentation.
</ul>
<BR>
<a href="http://bochs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bochs/tags/REL_2_4_6_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES">
Details on what has changed since version 2.4.5
</a>
<BR><BR>

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<li><b>July 8, 2005:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=340639">Bochs 2.2.1</a> is now available.
<li><b>May 28, 2005:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=330621">Bochs 2.2</a> is now available.
<li><b>August 1, 2004:</b> Bochs is SF project of the month for August 2004 !
<li><b>February 8, 2004:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=215733">Bochs 2.1.1</a> is now available.
<li><b>January 13, 2004:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&package_id=17475&release_id=209220">Bochs 2.1</a> is now available.
</ul>
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs News</b></font><BR>
<UL>
<li><b>November 27, 2011:</b> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.5/">Bochs 2.5</a> is now available.
<li><b>February 23, 2011:</b> Bochs project moved to Subversion source control. Bochs 2.4.6 is the last release available from CVS !
<li><b>February 22, 2011:</b> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.4.6/">Bochs 2.4.6</a> is now available.
<li><b>April, 2010:</b> After long time Bochs is back to top 25 of SourceForce projects !