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