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