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Roland McGrath55dd2782008-07-18 02:21:11 +0000[diff] [blame]1Changes in 4.5.17
2==============
3* Many bug fixes.
4* -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
5* Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
6* Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
7* Improved support for Linux/ARM.
8* SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
9
Roland McGrath47d32232007-08-03 10:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]10Changes in 4.5.16
11==============
12* Bug fixes.
13* Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
14* Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
15* Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
16 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
17
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000[diff] [blame]18Changes in 4.5.15
19==============
20* Bug fixes.
21* Several biarch improvements.
Roland McGrath0a45fae2007-01-16 23:25:34 +0000[diff] [blame]22* Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000[diff] [blame]23* Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
24
Roland McGrathf4d9b492006-01-17 06:22:57 +0000[diff] [blame]25Changes in 4.5.14
26==============
27* Bug fixes.
28* Accept numeric system calls in -e.
29
Roland McGrathcab43802005-08-03 11:42:35 +0000[diff] [blame]30Changes in 4.5.13
31==============
32* Bug fixes.
33* Introduce "-e trace=desc".
34
Roland McGrath182cbf42005-06-10 03:56:16 +0000[diff] [blame]35Changes in 4.5.12
36==============
37* Bug fixes.
38* Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
39* Update PowerPC system calls.
40* Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
41
Roland McGrath7147a3d2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]42Changes in 4.5.11
43==============
44* Quick fix release for build issues.
45* One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
46
Roland McGrathd8184032005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000[diff] [blame]47Changes in 4.5.10
48==============
49* Bug fixes.
50* Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
51
Roland McGrathd63311a2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000[diff] [blame]52Changes in 4.5.9
53==============
54* Bug fixes.
55* Improve socket ioctl printing.
56* Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
57* Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
58* Improve mount flags printing.
59* Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
60
Roland McGrathf041d472004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000[diff] [blame]61Changes in 4.5.8
62==============
63* Bug fixes.
64* Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
65* Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
66* Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
67* Improve ioctl command name matching.
68* Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
69* Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
70* Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
71
Roland McGrathb93f9182004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000[diff] [blame]72Changes in 4.5.7
73==============
74* Bug fixes.
75* Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
76* Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
77* Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
78* Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
79
Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame]80Changes in 4.5.6
81==============
82* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
83* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
84
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000[diff] [blame]85Changes in 4.5.5
86==============
87* Just bug fixes.
88
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000[diff] [blame]89Changes in 4.5.4
90==============
91* Update Linux ioctl lists.
92* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
93* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
94
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]95Changes in 4.5.3
96==============
97* Bug fixes.
98* 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]99* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]100
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000[diff] [blame]101Changes in 4.5.2
102==============
103* Bug fixes.
104* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
105* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
106
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]107Changes in 4.5.1
108==============
109* Bug fixes.
110* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
111
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000[diff] [blame]112Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]113==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]114* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]115 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
116* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]117* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]118* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]119* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000[diff] [blame]120* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]121* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000[diff] [blame]122* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
123 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]124* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000[diff] [blame]125* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]126* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]127
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000[diff] [blame]128Changes in 4.4
129==============
130* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
131* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
132 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
133
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000[diff] [blame]134Changes in 4.3.1
135================
136* compile fixes for Linux/mips
137
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]138Changes in 4.3
139==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]140* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000[diff] [blame]141* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000[diff] [blame]142* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000[diff] [blame]143* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]144* FreeBSD/i386 port added
145* UnixWare and Solaris updates
146* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]147
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]148Changes in 4.2
149==============
150* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
151* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]152* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000[diff] [blame]153* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]154
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000[diff] [blame]155Changes in 4.1
156================
157* Linux/MIPS port added
158* Lots of Linux updates again
159* Improved IPv6 support
160* Add strace-graph
161
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000[diff] [blame]162Changes in 4.0.1
163================
164* Minor bugfixes
165* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
166
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]167Changes in 4.0
168==============
169* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
170* Personalities work again
171* Compile correctly on SunOS again
172* IRIX64 updates
173* Solaris updates
174
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]175Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]176=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]177* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
178* Linux alpha fixes
179* Minor cleanups
180
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000[diff] [blame]181Changes in 3.99
182===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000[diff] [blame]183* New maintainer
184* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
185* support lots more Linux syscalls
186* fix signal handling
187* add IPX and IPIP support
188* check stray syscall after execv
189* fix hanging children
190
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]191Changes in version 3.1
192======================
193
194* Irix5 is supported
195* Linux 68k is supported
196* Linux alpha is supported
197* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
198* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
199* output can be piped to a program
200* tracing setuid programs works better
201* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
202* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
203 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
204 take a file name as an argument
205* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
206* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
207* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
208* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
209
210Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
211========================================
212
213* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
214* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
215* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
216* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
217* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
218* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
219
220New Features in version 3.0
221===========================
222
223* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
224* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
225* exit values are printed in an alignment column
226* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
227* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
228* selective tracing of syscalls
229* selective printing of syscall structures
230* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
231* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
232* selective tracing of signals
233* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
234* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
235* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall