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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest release:</b> Bochs 2.4</font><BR><BR>
Eleven months after the last intermediate one we have a new stable release.
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Here is a brief summary of changes since version 2.3.7:
<ul>
<li> Added graphical Bochs debugger frontend for most of the supported platforms.<br>
Thanks for Chourdakis Michael and Bruce Ewing.
<li> Many new CPU features in emulation
<ul>
<li> Support for > 32 bit physical address space and configurable MSRs
<li> VMX, 1G pages in long mode, MOVBE instruction
</ul>
<li> Bugfixes for CPU emulation correctness, debugger and CPU instrumentation.
<li> New config interface 'win32config' with start and runtime menu
<li> USB: added OHCI support, external hub and cdrom
<li> Added user plugin interface support
</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, x
<li> Windows: nogui, rfb, win32
</ul>
</ul>
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<a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_4_FINAL">
Details on what has changed since version 2.3.7
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Previous release:</b> Bochs 2.3.7</font><BR><BR>
Version 2.3.7 is an intermediate (bugfix+) release. It includes a lot of bugfixes
and a few new features.<BR>
Here is a brief summary of changes :
<ul>
<li> More optimizations in CPU code - <b>Bochs 2.3.7 is more than 2x faster than Bochs 2.3.5 build !</b>
<li> Implemented LBA48 support in BIOS
<li> Added memory access tracing for Bochs internal debugger
<li> Implemented Intel(R) XSAVE/XRSTOR and AES instruction set extensions
<li> Many fixes in CPU emulation and internal debugger. MenuetOS64 floppy images booting perfect again !
<li> updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.6b
</ul>
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<a href="http://bochs.cvs.sourceforge.net/bochs/bochs/CHANGES?view=markup&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=REL_2_3_7_FINAL">
Details on what has changed since version 2.3.6
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs Binary and Source Releases</b></font><BR><BR>
The latest release of Bochs is available in these file formats :<BR>
<ul>
<li> Win32 binary NSIS installer package (EXE)
<li> Win32 binary with P4 CPU support (ZIP) - Bochs installation is required
<li> Win32 binary with P4 + SMP support (ZIP) - Bochs installation is required
<li> Linux binary RPM
<li> Platform independant source package (TAR.GZ)
<li> Win32 specific source package prepared for MSVC (ZIP)
<li> Linux source RPM
</ul>
You can download any release since March 2001 on the
<a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=See+All+Releases&url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.phpqmrkgroup_ideq12580">Releases Page</a>.
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<a name="cvssnap"><BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Download CVS
Snapshot</b></font><BR><BR></a>
<b>CVS Snapshot:</b>
Bochs, like many other open source projects, uses CVS (Concurrent Version
System) to keep track of source code. Unlike the current release, the
CVS version of the sources contains everything the developers have written
to this date, and it can change daily (or even hourly). As a result, the
CVS version of Bochs will have more features and bug fixes than the release,
but also it may be somewhat less stable. You can decide if you prefer to go
exploring and try out our newest code, or stick with the better-tested
release.
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The CVS snapshots are provided as a convenience only. Of course, you could
also get the same information using CVS itself. Some of the benefits of
using CVS directly are: you can get any release or version, view the log
messages that say what files were changed, and make patches very easily
with "cvs diff -u".
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