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Roland McGrath	b66e936	2004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000	[diff] [blame]	1	Changes in 4.5.2
				2	==============
				3	* Bug fixes.
				4	* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
				5	* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
				6
Roland McGrath	00eb84e	2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000	[diff] [blame]	7	Changes in 4.5.1
				8	==============
				9	* Bug fixes.
				10	* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
				11
Roland McGrath	a3bc12e	2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000	[diff] [blame]	12	Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig	53b320f	2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	13	==============
Roland McGrath	f57204d	2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	14	* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig	53b320f	2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	15	handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
				16	* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrath	de6e533	2003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000	[diff] [blame]	17	* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig	81a3a9a	2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000	[diff] [blame]	18	* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrath	f57204d	2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	19	* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath	5694e80	2003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	20	* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrath	f57204d	2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	21	* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath	044c8d2	2002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	22	* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
				23	in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath	1b86e2d	2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	24	* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrath	cb61214	2003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000	[diff] [blame]	25	* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrath	acd3cd7	2003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000	[diff] [blame]	26	* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig	53b320f	2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000	[diff] [blame]	27
Wichert Akkerman	d22c4a1	2001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000	[diff] [blame]	28	Changes in 4.4
				29	==============
				30	* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
				31	* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
				32	Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
				33
Wichert Akkerman	e70bbe5	2001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000	[diff] [blame]	34	Changes in 4.3.1
				35	================
				36	* compile fixes for Linux/mips
				37
Wichert Akkerman	12f75d1	2000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	38	Changes in 4.3
				39	==============
Wichert Akkerman	b07296a	2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	40	* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman	7987cdf	2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000	[diff] [blame]	41	* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkerman	a966785	2001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000	[diff] [blame]	42	* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkerman	f185065	2001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000	[diff] [blame]	43	* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkerman	b07296a	2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000	[diff] [blame]	44	* FreeBSD/i386 port added
				45	* UnixWare and Solaris updates
				46	* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman	12f75d1	2000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000	[diff] [blame]	47
Wichert Akkerman	4dc8a2a	1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	48	Changes in 4.2
				49	==============
				50	* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
				51	* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrath	f57204d	2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000	[diff] [blame]	52	* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman	9148a3b	1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000	[diff] [blame]	53	* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman	4dc8a2a	1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	54
Wichert Akkerman	2a64b43	1999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000	[diff] [blame]	55	Changes in 4.1
				56	================
				57	* Linux/MIPS port added
				58	* Lots of Linux updates again
				59	* Improved IPv6 support
				60	* Add strace-graph
				61
Wichert Akkerman	4a01ca0	1999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000	[diff] [blame]	62	Changes in 4.0.1
				63	================
				64	* Minor bugfixes
				65	* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
				66
Wichert Akkerman	8dc9a1a	1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	67	Changes in 4.0
				68	==============
				69	* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
				70	* Personalities work again
				71	* Compile correctly on SunOS again
				72	* IRIX64 updates
				73	* Solaris updates
				74
Wichert Akkerman	3f7f49d	1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	75	Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman	8dc9a1a	1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	76	=================
Wichert Akkerman	3f7f49d	1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000	[diff] [blame]	77	* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
				78	* Linux alpha fixes
				79	* Minor cleanups
				80
Wichert Akkerman	b859bea	1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000	[diff] [blame]	81	Changes in 3.99
				82	===============
Wichert Akkerman	1786d81	1999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000	[diff] [blame]	83	* New maintainer
				84	* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
				85	* support lots more Linux syscalls
				86	* fix signal handling
				87	* add IPX and IPIP support
				88	* check stray syscall after execv
				89	* fix hanging children
				90
Wichert Akkerman	76baf7c	1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000	[diff] [blame]	91	Changes in version 3.1
				92	======================
				93
				94	* Irix5 is supported
				95	* Linux 68k is supported
				96	* Linux alpha is supported
				97	* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
				98	* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
				99	* output can be piped to a program
				100	* tracing setuid programs works better
				101	* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
				102	* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
				103	classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
				104	take a file name as an argument
				105	* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
				106	* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
				107	* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
				108	* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
				109
				110	Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
				111	========================================
				112
				113	* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
				114	* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
				115	* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
				116	* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
				117	* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
				118	* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
				119
				120	New Features in version 3.0
				121	===========================
				122
				123	* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
				124	* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
				125	* exit values are printed in an alignment column
				126	* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
				127	* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
				128	* selective tracing of syscalls
				129	* selective printing of syscall structures
				130	* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
				131	* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
				132	* selective tracing of signals
				133	* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
				134	* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
				135	* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall