| This file details the changelog of Capstone. |
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| Version 3.0: November 19th, 2014 |
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| [ API ] |
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| - New API: cs_disasm_iter & cs_malloc. See docs/README for tutorials. |
| - Renamed cs_disasm_ex to cs_disasm (cs_disasm_ex is still supported, but |
| marked obsolete to be removed in future) |
| - Support SKIPDATA mode, so Capstone can jump over unknown data and keep going |
| from the next legitimate instruction. See docs/README for tutorials. |
| - More details provided in cs_detail struct for all architectures. |
| - API version was bumped to 3.0. |
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| [ Bindings ] |
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| - Python binding supports Python3 (besides Python2). |
| - Support Ocaml binding. |
| - Java: add close() method to be used to deinitialize a Capstone object when |
| no longer use it. |
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| [ Architectures ] |
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| - New architectures: Sparc, SystemZ & XCore. |
| - Important bugfixes for Arm, Arm64, Mips, PowerPC & X86. |
| - Support more instructions for Arm, Arm64, Mips, PowerPC & X86. |
| - Always expose absolute addresses rather than relative addresses (Arm, Arm64, |
| Mips, PPC, Sparc, X86). |
| - Use common instruction operand types REG, IMM, MEM & FP across all |
| architectures (to enable cross-architecture analysis). |
| - Use common instruction group types across all architectures (to enable |
| cross-architecture analysis). |
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| [ X86 ] |
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| - X86 engine is mature & handles all the malware tricks (that we are aware of). |
| - Added a lot of new instructions (such as AVX512, 3DNow, etc). |
| - Add prefix symbols X86_PREFIX_REP/REPNE/LOCK/CS/DS/SS/FS/GS/ES/OPSIZE/ADDRSIZE. |
| - Print immediate in positive form & hexadecimal for AND/OR/XOR instructions. |
| - More friendly disassembly for JMP16i (in the form segment:offset) |
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| [ Mips ] |
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| - Engine added supports for new hardware modes: Mips32R6 (CS_MODE_MIPS32R6) & |
| MipsGP64 (CS_MODE_MIPSGP64). |
| - Removed the ABI-only mode CS_MODE_N64. |
| - New modes CS_MODE_MIPS32 & CS_MODE_MIPS64 (to use instead of CS_MODE_32 & |
| CS_MODE_64). |
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| [ ARM ] |
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| - Support new mode CS_MODE_V8 for Armv8 A32 encodings. |
| - Print immediate in positive form & hexadecimal for AND/ORR/EOR/BIC instructions |
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| [ ARM64 ] |
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| - Print immediate in hexadecimal for AND/ORR/EOR/TST instructions. |
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| [ PowerPC ] |
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| - Do not print a dot in front of absolute address. |
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| [ Other features ] |
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| - Support for Microsoft Visual Studio (so enable Windows native compilation). |
| - Support CMake compilation. |
| - Cross-compile for Android. |
| - Build libraries/tests using XCode project |
| - Much faster, while consuming less memory for all architectures. |
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| Version 2.1.2: April 3rd, 2014 |
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| This is a stable release to fix some bugs deep in the core. There is no update |
| to any architectures or bindings, so bindings version 2.1 can be used with this |
| version 2.1.2 just fine. |
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| [ Core changes] |
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| - Support cross-compilation for all iDevices (iPhone/iPad/iPod). |
| - X86: do not print memory offset in negative form. |
| - Fix a bug in X86 when Capstone cannot handle short instruction. |
| - Print negative number above -9 without prefix 0x (arm64, mips, arm). |
| - Correct the SONAME setup for library versioning (Linux, *BSD, Solaris). |
| - Set library versioning for dylib of OSX. |
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| Version 2.1.1: March 13th, 2014 |
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| This is a stable release to fix some bugs deep in the core. There is no update |
| to any architectures or bindings, so bindings version 2.1 can be used with this |
| version 2.1.1 just fine. |
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| [ Core changes] |
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| - Fix a buffer overflow bug in Thumb mode (ARM). Some special input can |
| trigger this flaw. |
| - Fix a crash issue when embedding Capstone into OSX kernel. This should |
| also enable Capstone to be embedded into other systems with limited stack |
| memory size such as Linux kernel or some firmwares. |
| - Use a proper SONAME for library versioning (Linux). |
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| Version 2.1: March 5th, 2014 |
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| [ API changes ] |
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| - API version has been bumped to 2.1. |
| - Change prototype of cs_close() to be able to invalidate closed handle. |
| See http://capstone-engine.org/version_2.1_API.html for more information. |
| - Extend cs_support() to handle more query types, not only about supported |
| architectures. This change is backward compatible, however, so existent code |
| do not need to be modified to support this. |
| - New query type CS_SUPPORT_DIET for cs_support() to ask about diet status of |
| the engine. |
| - New error code CS_ERR_DIET to report errors about newly added diet mode. |
| - New error code CS_ERR_VERSION to report issue of incompatible versions between |
| bindings & core engine. |
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| [ Core changes ] |
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| - On memory usage, Capstone uses about 40% less memory, while still faster |
| than version 2.0. |
| - All architectures are much smaller: binaries size reduce at least 30%. |
| Especially, X86-only binary reduces from 1.9MB to just 720KB. |
| - Support "diet" mode, in which engine size is further reduced (by around 40%) |
| for embedding purpose. The price to pay is that we have to sacrifice some |
| non-critical data fields. See http://capstone-engine.org/diet.html for more |
| details. |
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| [ Architectures ] |
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| - Update all 5 architectures to fix bugs. |
| - PowerPC: |
| - New instructions: FMR & MSYNC. |
| - Mips: |
| - New instruction: DLSA |
| - X86: |
| - Properly handle AVX-512 instructions. |
| - New instructions: PSETPM, SALC, INT1, GETSEC. |
| - Fix some memory leaking issues in case of prefixed instructions such |
| as LOCK, REP, REPNE. |
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| [ Python binding ] |
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| - Verify the core version at initialization time. Refuse to run if its version |
| is different from the core's version. |
| - New API disasm_lite() added to Cs class. This light API only returns tuples of |
| (address, size, mnemonic, op_str), rather than list of CsInsn objects. This |
| improves performance by around 30% in some benchmarks. |
| - New API version_bind() returns binding's version, which might differ from |
| the core's API version if the binding is out-of-date. |
| - New API debug() returns information on Cython support, diet status & archs |
| compiled in. |
| - Fixed some memory leaking bugs for Cython binding. |
| - Fix a bug crashing Cython code when accessing @regs_read/regs_write/groups. |
| - Support diet mode. |
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| [ Java binding ] |
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| - Fix some memory leaking bugs. |
| - New API version() returns combined version. |
| - Support diet mode. |
| - Better support for detail option. |
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| [ Miscellaneous ] |
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| - make.sh now can uninstall the core engine. This is done with: |
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| $ sudo ./make.sh uninstall |
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| Version 2.0: January 22nd, 2014 |
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| Release 2.0 deprecates verison 1.0 and brings a lot of crucial changes. |
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| [ API changes ] |
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| - API version has been bumped to 2.0 (see cs_version() API) |
| - New API cs_strerror(errno) returns a string describing error code given |
| in its only argument. |
| - cs_version() now returns combined version encoding both major & minor versions. |
| - New option CS_OPT_MODE allows to change engine’s mode at run-time with |
| cs_option(). |
| - New option CS_OPT_MEM allows to specify user-defined functions for dynamically |
| memory management used internally by Capstone. This is useful to embed Capstone |
| into special environments such as kernel or firware. |
| - New API cs_support() can be used to check if this lib supports a particular |
| architecture (this is necessary since we now allow to choose which architectures |
| to compile in). |
| - The detail option is OFF by default now. To get detail information, it should be |
| explicitly turned ON. The details then can be accessed using cs_insn.detail |
| pointer (to newly added structure cs_detail) |
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| [ Core changes ] |
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| - On memory usage, Capstone uses much less memory, but a lot faster now. |
| - User now can choose which architectures to be supported by modifying config.mk |
| before compiling/installing. |
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| [ Architectures ] |
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| - Arm |
| - Support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). |
| - Support friendly register, so instead of output sub "r12,r11,0x14", |
| we have "sub ip,fp,0x14". |
| - Arm64: support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). |
| - PowerPC: newly added. |
| - Mips: support friendly register, so instead of output "srl $2,$1,0x1f", |
| we have "srl $v0,$at,0x1f". |
| - X86: bug fixes. |
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| [ Python binding ] |
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| - Python binding is vastly improved in performance: around 3 ~ 4 times faster |
| than in 1.0. |
| - Cython support has been added, which can further speed up over the default |
| pure Python binding (up to 30% in some cases) |
| - Function cs_disasm_quick() & Cs.disasm() now use generator (rather than a list) |
| to return succesfully disassembled instructions. This improves the performance |
| and reduces memory usage. |
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| [ Java binding ] |
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| - Better performance & bug fixes. |
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| [ Miscellaneous ] |
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| - Fixed some installation issues with Gentoo Linux. |
| - Capstone now can easily compile/install on all *nix, including Linux, OSX, |
| {Net, Free, Open}BSD & Solaris. |
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| [Version 1.0]: December 18th, 2013 |
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| - Initial public release. |
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