Bochs 2.6 released

Hi all!

Bochs 2.6 has been released on September 2nd, 2012. Most of the files 
are now available for download, the online documentation is up-to-date 
and the website will be updated soon.

Brief summary of changes:

- More than 10% CPU emulation speedup !
- Support for AMD's SVM hardware emulation (including extended XAPIC
   support).
- Implemented support for new x86 ISA extensions.
   Bochs is fully aligned with rev043 of Intel(R) Architecture Manual.
- Improved emulation accuracy (critical fixes for APIC, VMX and AVX/XOP
   emulation).
- Bochs internal debugger: new command to show state of a device from
   the debugger.
- ROM BIOS: improved PCI boot ROM support (for VGA and other devices)
- Networking:
     - Ported Intel(R) 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet adapter emulation from
       Qemu.
     - Added PCI network boot ROM support to all network adapters.
     - Added TFTP support to the 'slirp' networking module.
- Harddrive: added support for VirtualPC disk images, fixed sparse disk
   images.
- Sound:
     - implemented PC speaker beep using the lowlevel sound interface.
     - SDL audio output support.
- Added ability to set log action per device from .bochsrc.
- Moved disk imaging, networking, sound and USB devices to
   subdirectories in the iodev folder.

--
Volker Ruppert

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