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