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Roland McGrath7147a3d2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1Changes in 4.5.11
2==============
3* Quick fix release for build issues.
4* One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
5
Roland McGrathd8184032005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000[diff] [blame]6Changes in 4.5.10
7==============
8* Bug fixes.
9* Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
10
Roland McGrathd63311a2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000[diff] [blame]11Changes in 4.5.9
12==============
13* Bug fixes.
14* Improve socket ioctl printing.
15* Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
16* Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
17* Improve mount flags printing.
18* Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
19
Roland McGrathf041d472004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000[diff] [blame]20Changes in 4.5.8
21==============
22* Bug fixes.
23* Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
24* Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
25* Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
26* Improve ioctl command name matching.
27* Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
28* Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
29* Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
30
Roland McGrathb93f9182004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000[diff] [blame]31Changes in 4.5.7
32==============
33* Bug fixes.
34* Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
35* Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
36* Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
37* Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
38
Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame]39Changes in 4.5.6
40==============
41* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
42* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
43
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000[diff] [blame]44Changes in 4.5.5
45==============
46* Just bug fixes.
47
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000[diff] [blame]48Changes in 4.5.4
49==============
50* Update Linux ioctl lists.
51* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
52* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
53
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]54Changes in 4.5.3
55==============
56* Bug fixes.
57* On Linux using NPTL threads, -p will now attach to all threads in a process.
Roland McGrath5e169a12004-04-16 21:54:56 +0000[diff] [blame]58* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]59
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000[diff] [blame]60Changes in 4.5.2
61==============
62* Bug fixes.
63* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
64* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
65
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]66Changes in 4.5.1
67==============
68* Bug fixes.
69* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
70
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000[diff] [blame]71Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]72==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]73* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]74 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
75* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]76* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]77* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]78* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000[diff] [blame]79* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]80* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000[diff] [blame]81* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
82 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]83* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000[diff] [blame]84* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]85* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]86
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000[diff] [blame]87Changes in 4.4
88==============
89* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
90* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
91 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
92
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000[diff] [blame]93Changes in 4.3.1
94================
95* compile fixes for Linux/mips
96
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]97Changes in 4.3
98==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]99* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000[diff] [blame]100* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000[diff] [blame]101* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000[diff] [blame]102* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]103* FreeBSD/i386 port added
104* UnixWare and Solaris updates
105* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]106
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]107Changes in 4.2
108==============
109* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
110* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]111* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000[diff] [blame]112* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]113
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000[diff] [blame]114Changes in 4.1
115================
116* Linux/MIPS port added
117* Lots of Linux updates again
118* Improved IPv6 support
119* Add strace-graph
120
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000[diff] [blame]121Changes in 4.0.1
122================
123* Minor bugfixes
124* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
125
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]126Changes in 4.0
127==============
128* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
129* Personalities work again
130* Compile correctly on SunOS again
131* IRIX64 updates
132* Solaris updates
133
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]134Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]135=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]136* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
137* Linux alpha fixes
138* Minor cleanups
139
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000[diff] [blame]140Changes in 3.99
141===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000[diff] [blame]142* New maintainer
143* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
144* support lots more Linux syscalls
145* fix signal handling
146* add IPX and IPIP support
147* check stray syscall after execv
148* fix hanging children
149
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]150Changes in version 3.1
151======================
152
153* Irix5 is supported
154* Linux 68k is supported
155* Linux alpha is supported
156* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
157* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
158* output can be piped to a program
159* tracing setuid programs works better
160* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
161* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
162 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
163 take a file name as an argument
164* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
165* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
166* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
167* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
168
169Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
170========================================
171
172* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
173* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
174* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
175* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
176* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
177* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
178
179New Features in version 3.0
180===========================
181
182* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
183* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
184* exit values are printed in an alignment column
185* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
186* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
187* selective tracing of syscalls
188* selective printing of syscall structures
189* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
190* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
191* selective tracing of signals
192* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
193* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
194* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall