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Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000[diff] [blame]1Changes in 4.5.15
2==============
3* Bug fixes.
4* Several biarch improvements.
Roland McGrath0a45fae2007-01-16 23:25:34 +0000[diff] [blame]5* Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000[diff] [blame]6* Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
7
Roland McGrathf4d9b492006-01-17 06:22:57 +0000[diff] [blame]8Changes in 4.5.14
9==============
10* Bug fixes.
11* Accept numeric system calls in -e.
12
Roland McGrathcab43802005-08-03 11:42:35 +0000[diff] [blame]13Changes in 4.5.13
14==============
15* Bug fixes.
16* Introduce "-e trace=desc".
17
Roland McGrath182cbf42005-06-10 03:56:16 +0000[diff] [blame]18Changes in 4.5.12
19==============
20* Bug fixes.
21* Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
22* Update PowerPC system calls.
23* Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
24
Roland McGrath7147a3d2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]25Changes in 4.5.11
26==============
27* Quick fix release for build issues.
28* One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
29
Roland McGrathd8184032005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000[diff] [blame]30Changes in 4.5.10
31==============
32* Bug fixes.
33* Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
34
Roland McGrathd63311a2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000[diff] [blame]35Changes in 4.5.9
36==============
37* Bug fixes.
38* Improve socket ioctl printing.
39* Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
40* Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
41* Improve mount flags printing.
42* Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
43
Roland McGrathf041d472004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000[diff] [blame]44Changes in 4.5.8
45==============
46* Bug fixes.
47* Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
48* Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
49* Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
50* Improve ioctl command name matching.
51* Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
52* Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
53* Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
54
Roland McGrathb93f9182004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000[diff] [blame]55Changes in 4.5.7
56==============
57* Bug fixes.
58* Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
59* Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
60* Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
61* Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
62
Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame]63Changes in 4.5.6
64==============
65* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
66* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
67
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000[diff] [blame]68Changes in 4.5.5
69==============
70* Just bug fixes.
71
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000[diff] [blame]72Changes in 4.5.4
73==============
74* Update Linux ioctl lists.
75* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
76* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
77
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]78Changes in 4.5.3
79==============
80* Bug fixes.
81* 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]82* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]83
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000[diff] [blame]84Changes in 4.5.2
85==============
86* Bug fixes.
87* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
88* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
89
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]90Changes in 4.5.1
91==============
92* Bug fixes.
93* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
94
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000[diff] [blame]95Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]96==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]97* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]98 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
99* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]100* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]101* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]102* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000[diff] [blame]103* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]104* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000[diff] [blame]105* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
106 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]107* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000[diff] [blame]108* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]109* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]110
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000[diff] [blame]111Changes in 4.4
112==============
113* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
114* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
115 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
116
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000[diff] [blame]117Changes in 4.3.1
118================
119* compile fixes for Linux/mips
120
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]121Changes in 4.3
122==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]123* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000[diff] [blame]124* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000[diff] [blame]125* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000[diff] [blame]126* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]127* FreeBSD/i386 port added
128* UnixWare and Solaris updates
129* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]130
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]131Changes in 4.2
132==============
133* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
134* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]135* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000[diff] [blame]136* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]137
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000[diff] [blame]138Changes in 4.1
139================
140* Linux/MIPS port added
141* Lots of Linux updates again
142* Improved IPv6 support
143* Add strace-graph
144
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000[diff] [blame]145Changes in 4.0.1
146================
147* Minor bugfixes
148* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
149
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]150Changes in 4.0
151==============
152* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
153* Personalities work again
154* Compile correctly on SunOS again
155* IRIX64 updates
156* Solaris updates
157
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]158Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]159=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]160* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
161* Linux alpha fixes
162* Minor cleanups
163
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000[diff] [blame]164Changes in 3.99
165===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000[diff] [blame]166* New maintainer
167* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
168* support lots more Linux syscalls
169* fix signal handling
170* add IPX and IPIP support
171* check stray syscall after execv
172* fix hanging children
173
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]174Changes in version 3.1
175======================
176
177* Irix5 is supported
178* Linux 68k is supported
179* Linux alpha is supported
180* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
181* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
182* output can be piped to a program
183* tracing setuid programs works better
184* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
185* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
186 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
187 take a file name as an argument
188* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
189* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
190* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
191* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
192
193Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
194========================================
195
196* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
197* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
198* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
199* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
200* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
201* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
202
203New Features in version 3.0
204===========================
205
206* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
207* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
208* exit values are printed in an alignment column
209* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
210* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
211* selective tracing of syscalls
212* selective printing of syscall structures
213* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
214* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
215* selective tracing of signals
216* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
217* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
218* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall