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Roland McGrath09db7052008-08-28 22:00:46 +0000[diff] [blame^]1Changes in 4.5.18
2==============
3* Bug fixes.
4* Support new Linux/PPC system call subpage_prot and PROT_SAO flag.
5* In sigaction system call, display sa_flags value along with SIG_DFL/SIG_IGN.
6
Roland McGrath55dd2782008-07-18 02:21:11 +0000[diff] [blame]7Changes in 4.5.17
8==============
9* Many bug fixes.
10* -F is now deprecated, -f has traced vfork too on Linux for a long time now.
11* Print O_CLOEXEC, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC flag bits.
12* Improved output for prctl system call on Linux.
13* Improved support for Linux/ARM.
14* SA_NOMASK is now spelled SA_NODEFER, and SA_ONESHOT is spelled SA_RESETHAND.
15
Roland McGrath47d32232007-08-03 10:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]16Changes in 4.5.16
17==============
18* Bug fixes.
19* Improved output for delete_module, futex, and mbind system calls on Linux.
20* Improved output for SG_IO ioctls on Linux.
21* Support new Linux system calls move_pages, utimensat, signalfd, timerfd,
22 eventfd, getcpu, epoll_pwait.
23
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000[diff] [blame]24Changes in 4.5.15
25==============
26* Bug fixes.
27* Several biarch improvements.
Roland McGrath0a45fae2007-01-16 23:25:34 +0000[diff] [blame]28* Improved output for adjtimex, sysctl, quotactl, mount, umount.
Roland McGrath16a3a522007-01-11 22:22:42 +0000[diff] [blame]29* Support new Linux system calls *at, inotify*, pselect6, ppoll and unshare.
30
Roland McGrathf4d9b492006-01-17 06:22:57 +0000[diff] [blame]31Changes in 4.5.14
32==============
33* Bug fixes.
34* Accept numeric system calls in -e.
35
Roland McGrathcab43802005-08-03 11:42:35 +0000[diff] [blame]36Changes in 4.5.13
37==============
38* Bug fixes.
39* Introduce "-e trace=desc".
40
Roland McGrath182cbf42005-06-10 03:56:16 +0000[diff] [blame]41Changes in 4.5.12
42==============
43* Bug fixes.
44* Better x86-64 support for IA32 processes.
45* Update PowerPC system calls.
46* Better printing for Linux aio system calls.
47
Roland McGrath7147a3d2005-03-22 23:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]48Changes in 4.5.11
49==============
50* Quick fix release for build issues.
51* One fix for Linux/ARM system call table.
52
Roland McGrathd8184032005-03-15 02:40:12 +0000[diff] [blame]53Changes in 4.5.10
54==============
55* Bug fixes.
56* Print fault address for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signals when available.
57
Roland McGrathd63311a2005-02-04 09:29:04 +0000[diff] [blame]58Changes in 4.5.9
59==============
60* Bug fixes.
61* Improve socket ioctl printing.
62* Update Linux/IA64 syscall list.
63* Fix Linux/x86-64 syscall argument extraction for 32-bit processes.
64* Improve mount flags printing.
65* Support symbolic printing of x86_64 arch_prctl parameters.
66
Roland McGrathf041d472004-10-20 02:17:52 +0000[diff] [blame]67Changes in 4.5.8
68==============
69* Bug fixes.
70* Update syscall tables for Alpha, ARM, HPPA.
71* Support new Linux syscalls mbind, set_mempolicy, get_mempolicy, waitid.
72* Support Linux syscalls fadvise64, fadvise64_64, and epoll_*.
73* Improve ioctl command name matching.
74* Print RTC_* ioctl structure contents.
75* Support newer RLIMIT_* values.
76* Print struct cmsghdr details in sendmsg.
77
Roland McGrathb93f9182004-08-31 08:17:20 +0000[diff] [blame]78Changes in 4.5.7
79==============
80* Bug fixes.
81* Print attribute values in *xattr system calls on Linux.
82* Include pread and pwrite calls in -e read and -e write tracing.
83* Update SO_* and IP_* value lists and add IPV6_* values for socket options.
84* Print clock_t values symbolically in Linux clock_* system calls.
85
Roland McGrath785a0262004-07-12 07:55:48 +0000[diff] [blame]86Changes in 4.5.6
87==============
88* Bug fixes, Linux ioctl updates.
89* David Miller contributed support for Linux/SPARC64.
90
Roland McGrathb7e2ca12004-06-28 05:24:29 +0000[diff] [blame]91Changes in 4.5.5
92==============
93* Just bug fixes.
94
Roland McGrathed8e77e2004-06-04 02:35:58 +0000[diff] [blame]95Changes in 4.5.4
96==============
97* Update Linux ioctl lists.
98* Update PF_* and AF_* value lists.
99* The 4.5.3 -p behavior for NPTL threads applies only under -f, and got fixed.
100
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]101Changes in 4.5.3
102==============
103* Bug fixes.
104* 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]105* Handle new mq_* system calls in Linux 2.6.6 and later.
Roland McGrath62412202004-04-09 00:25:38 +0000[diff] [blame]106
Roland McGrathb66e9362004-03-02 06:38:35 +0000[diff] [blame]107Changes in 4.5.2
108==============
109* Bug fixes.
110* Report some new VM_* bit values on Linux.
111* Better output for Linux sched_* system calls.
112
Roland McGrath00eb84e2003-11-14 02:57:22 +0000[diff] [blame]113Changes in 4.5.1
114==============
115* Bug fixes.
116* Display multiple ioctl name matches on Linux.
117
Roland McGratha3bc12e2003-09-24 22:22:38 +0000[diff] [blame]118Changes in 4.5
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]119==============
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]120* New port to AMD's x86-64 architecture. One strace binary can
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]121 handle both new x86-64 and old i386 processes.
122* Fixed support for LFS64 calls.
Roland McGrathde6e5332003-01-24 04:31:23 +0000[diff] [blame]123* New switch -E to add/remove environment variables for the command.
Michal Ludvig81a3a9a2002-11-06 13:19:15 +0000[diff] [blame]124* Merged s390/s390x port.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]125* Trace an unbounded number of processes.
Roland McGrath5694e802003-01-09 06:56:39 +0000[diff] [blame]126* Handle numerous new system calls in Linux 2.5, and new threads semantics.
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]127* Fixed bugs with attach/detach leaving things stopped.
Roland McGrath044c8d22002-12-22 03:36:03 +0000[diff] [blame]128* Fixed traced process seeing ECHILD despite live, traced children
129 in waitpid calls with WNOHANG.
Roland McGrath1b86e2d2003-03-31 01:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]130* Stuart Menefy contributed a port to Linux/SH.
Roland McGrathcb612142003-07-17 09:23:56 +0000[diff] [blame]131* Stephen Thomas contributed a port to Linux/SH64.
Roland McGrathacd3cd72003-06-11 05:37:56 +0000[diff] [blame]132* Many other bug fixes.
Michal Ludvig53b320f2002-09-23 13:30:09 +0000[diff] [blame]133
Wichert Akkermand22c4a12001-08-19 11:57:48 +0000[diff] [blame]134Changes in 4.4
135==============
136* Fix Linux/ia64 support, looks like someone renamed a few things on us
137* Fix the ioctl setup for Linux, turned out it did not really work.
138 Improve the ioctl extracter as well so we decode some more ones.
139
Wichert Akkermane70bbe52001-04-07 21:47:30 +0000[diff] [blame]140Changes in 4.3.1
141================
142* compile fixes for Linux/mips
143
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]144Changes in 4.3
145==============
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]146* Linux ia64 and hppa ports added
Wichert Akkerman7987cdf2000-07-05 16:05:39 +0000[diff] [blame]147* The usual Linux syscall updates (includes 32bit uid/gid support),
Wichert Akkermana9667852001-03-17 17:26:34 +0000[diff] [blame]148* Linux ioctl list updated
Wichert Akkermanf1850652001-02-16 20:29:03 +0000[diff] [blame]149* Support IPv6 scope ids
Wichert Akkermanb07296a2001-04-01 14:05:04 +0000[diff] [blame]150* FreeBSD/i386 port added
151* UnixWare and Solaris updates
152* Better support for tracing multithreaded processes in Linux
Wichert Akkerman12f75d12000-02-14 16:23:40 +0000[diff] [blame]153
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]154Changes in 4.2
155==============
156* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
157* Linux/S390 port added
Roland McGrathf57204d2002-12-18 04:36:59 +0000[diff] [blame]158* The usual Linux syscall updates
Wichert Akkerman9148a3b1999-12-24 23:13:55 +0000[diff] [blame]159* we can follow fork on arm now
Wichert Akkerman4dc8a2a1999-12-23 14:20:14 +0000[diff] [blame]160
Wichert Akkerman2a64b431999-11-26 00:29:05 +0000[diff] [blame]161Changes in 4.1
162================
163* Linux/MIPS port added
164* Lots of Linux updates again
165* Improved IPv6 support
166* Add strace-graph
167
Wichert Akkerman4a01ca01999-07-25 12:29:49 +0000[diff] [blame]168Changes in 4.0.1
169================
170* Minor bugfixes
171* Compiles on glibc2.0 systems again
172
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]173Changes in 4.0
174==============
175* Get stat structure properly on Linux 64bit archs
176* Personalities work again
177* Compile correctly on SunOS again
178* IRIX64 updates
179* Solaris updates
180
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]181Changes in 3.99.1
Wichert Akkerman8dc9a1a1999-07-09 14:08:14 +0000[diff] [blame]182=================
Wichert Akkerman3f7f49d1999-06-09 13:12:11 +0000[diff] [blame]183* Linux (ultra)sparc fixes
184* Linux alpha fixes
185* Minor cleanups
186
Wichert Akkermanb859bea1999-04-18 22:50:50 +0000[diff] [blame]187Changes in 3.99
188===============
Wichert Akkerman1786d811999-04-15 20:34:14 +0000[diff] [blame]189* New maintainer
190* add support for more Linux architectures (powerpc, sparc, arm)
191* support lots more Linux syscalls
192* fix signal handling
193* add IPX and IPIP support
194* check stray syscall after execv
195* fix hanging children
196
Wichert Akkerman76baf7c1999-02-19 00:21:36 +0000[diff] [blame]197Changes in version 3.1
198======================
199
200* Irix5 is supported
201* Linux 68k is supported
202* Linux alpha is supported
203* configure is upgraded to autoconf 2.x
204* using -f in combination with -e now works correctly
205* output can be piped to a program
206* tracing setuid programs works better
207* it is now reasonable to install strace setuid to root in some circumstances
208* new useful tracing names like file and process to trace whole
209 classes of system calls, e.g. -efile traces all system calls that
210 take a file name as an argument
211* IPC calls on SunOS 4.1.x are decoded
212* Linux program memory is reliably dereferenced
213* Linux decodes at least the name of all syscalls as of pre2.0.4
214* various cosmetic changes and bug fixes
215
216Changes from versions 2.x to version 3.0
217========================================
218
219* filename arguments are neither abbreviated nor stringified
220* string arguments are now true C strings using octal instead of hex by default
221* preprocessor constants are never shortened (e.g. was RDONLY => now O_RDONLY)
222* by default the output for multiple processes now goes into one file
223* all structures, vectors, bitsets, etc. use consistent output formats
224* the -c option now means count calls, -i does what the old -c used to do
225
226New Features in version 3.0
227===========================
228
229* non-ascii strings can be optionally printed entirely in hex
230* the output format is readable when mutiple processes are generating output
231* exit values are printed in an alignment column
232* is is possible to suppress messages about attaching and detaching
233* various tracing features can be enabled on a per syscall/signal/desc basis
234* selective tracing of syscalls
235* selective printing of syscall structures
236* selective abbreviation of long structures on a per syscall basis
237* selective printing of raw syscall arguments and results
238* selective tracing of signals
239* selective dumping of all I/O read from file descriptors
240* selective dumping of all I/O written to file descriptors
241* optional counting of time, calls, and errors for each syscall