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1Version 0.188
2
3readelf: Add -D, --use-dynamic option.
4
5debuginfod-client: Add $DEBUGINFOD_HEADERS_FILE setting to supply outgoing
6                   HTTP headers. Add new function debuginfod_find_section.
7
8debuginfod: Add --disable-source-scan option.
9
10libdwfl: Add new function dwfl_get_debuginfod_client.
11         Add new function dwfl_frame_reg.
12         Add new function dwfl_report_offline_memory.
13
14Version 0.187
15
16debuginfod: Support -C option for connection thread pooling.
17
18debuginfod-client: Negative cache file are now zero sized instead of
19                   no-permission files.
20
21addr2line: The -A, --absolute option, which shows file names including
22           the full compilation directory is now the default.  To get the
23           old behavior use the new option --relative.
24
25readelf, elflint: Recognize FDO Packaging Metadata ELF notes
26
27libdw, debuginfo-client: Load libcurl lazily only when files need to
28                         be fetched remotely. libcurl is now never
29                         loaded when DEBUGINFOD_URLS is unset. And when
30                         DEBUGINFOD_URLS is set, libcurl is only loaded
31                         when the debuginfod_begin function is called.
32
33Version 0.186
34
35debuginfod-client: Default $DEBUGINFOD_URLS is computed from drop-in files
36                   /etc/debuginfod/*.urls rather than hardcoded into the
37                   /etc/profile.d/debuginfod* scripts.
38                   Add $DEBUGINFOD_MAXSIZE and $DEBUGINFOD_MAXTIME settings
39                   for skipping large/slow transfers.
40                   Add $DEBUGINFOD_RETRY for retrying aborted lookups.
41
42debuginfod: Supply extra HTTP response headers, describing archive/file
43            names that satisfy the requested buildid content.
44            Support -d :memory: option for in-memory databases.
45            Protect against loops in federated server configurations.
46            Add -r option to use -I/-X regexes for grooming stale files.
47            Protect against wasted CPU from duplicate concurrent requests.
48            Limit the duration of groom ops roughly to rescan (-t) times.
49            Add --passive mode for serving from read-only database.
50            Several other performance improvements & prometheus metrics.
51
52libdw: Support for the NVIDIA Cuda line map extensions.
53       DW_LNE_NVIDIA_inlined_call and DW_LNE_NVIDIA_set_function_name
54       are defined in dwarf.h. New functions dwarf_linecontext and
55       dwarf_linefunctionname
56
57translations: Update Japanese translation.
58
59Version 0.185
60
61debuginfod-client: Simplify curl handle reuse so downloads which
62                   return an error are retried.
63
64elfcompress: Always exit with code 0 when the operation succeeds (even
65             when nothing was done). On error the exit code is now always 1.
66
67Version 0.184
68
69debuginfod: Use libarchive's bsdtar as the .deb-family file unpacker.
70
71debuginfod-client: Client caches negative results. If a query for a
72		   file failed with 404, an empty 000 permission
73		   file is created in the cache. This will prevent
74		   requesting the same file for the next 10 minutes.
75
76		   Client objects now carry long-lived curl handles
77		   for outgoing connections.  This makes it more
78		   efficient for multiple sequential queries, because
79		   the TCP connections and/or TLS state info are kept
80		   around awhile, avoiding O(100ms) setup latencies.
81
82libdw: handle DW_FORM_indirect when reading attributes
83
84translations: Update Polish translation.
85
86Version 0.183
87
88debuginfod: New thread-busy metric and more detailed error metrics.
89            New --fdcache-mintmp and tracking of filesystem freespace.
90            New increased webapi concurrency while grooming.
91
92debuginfod-client: DEBUGINFOD_SONAME macro added to debuginfod.h which
93                   can be used to dlopen the libdebuginfod.so library.
94                   New function debuginfod_set_verbose_fd and
95                   DEBUGINFOD_VERBOSE environment variable.
96
97config: profile.sh and profile.csh won't export DEBUGINFOD_URLS unless
98        configured --enable-debuginfod-urls[=URLS]
99
100elflint, readelf: Recognize SHF_GNU_RETAIN.
101                  Handle SHT_X86_64_UNWIND as valid relocation target.
102
103Version 0.182
104
105backends: Support for tilegx has been removed.
106
107config: New /etc/profile.d files to provide default $DEBUGINFOD_URLS.
108
109debuginfod: More efficient package traversal, tolerate various errors
110            during scanning, grooming progress is more visible and
111            interruptible, more prometheus metrics.
112
113debuginfod-client: Now supports compressed (kernel) ELF images.
114
115libdwfl: Add ZSTD compression support.
116
117Version 0.181
118
119libelf: elf_update now compensates (fixes up) a bad sh_addralign for
120        SHF_COMPRESSED sections.
121
122libdebuginfod: configure now takes --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy or
123               --disable-libdebuginfod for bootstrapping.
124               DEBUGINFOD_URLS now accepts "scheme-free" urls
125               (guessing at what the user meant, either http:// or file://)
126
127readelf, elflint: Handle aarch64 bti, pac bits in dynamic table and gnu
128                  property notes.
129
130libdw, readelf: Recognize DW_CFA_AARCH64_negate_ra_state. Allows unwinding
131                on arm64 for code that is compiled for PAC (Pointer
132                Authentication Code) as long as it isn't enabled.
133
134Version 0.180
135
136elflint: Allow SHF_EXCLUDE as generic section flag when --gnu is given.
137
138libdw, readelf: Handle GCC LTO .gnu.debuglto_ prefix.
139
140libdw: Use correct CU to resolve file names in dwarf_decl_file.
141
142libdwfl: Handle debugaltlink in dwfl_standard_find_debuginfo.
143
144size: Also obey radix printing for bsd format.
145
146nm: Explicitly print weak 'V' or 'T' and common 'C' symbols.
147
148Version 0.179
149
150debuginfod-client: When DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS is set and the program doesn't
151                   install its own debuginfod_progressfn_t show download
152                   progress on stderr.
153                   DEBUGINFOD_TIMEOUT is now defined as seconds to get at
154                   least 100K, defaults to 90 seconds.
155                   Default to $XDG_CACHE_HOME/debuginfod_client.
156                   New functions debuginfod_set_user_data,
157                   debuginfod_get_user_data, debuginfod_get_url and
158                   debuginfod_add_http_header.
159                   Support for file:// URLs.
160
161debuginfod: Uses libarchive directly for reading rpm archives.
162            Support for indexing .deb/.ddeb archives through dpkg-deb
163            or bsdtar.
164            Generic archive support through -Z EXT[=CMD]. Which can be
165            used for example for arch-linux pacman files by using
166            -Z '.tar.zst=zstdcat'.
167            Better logging using User-Agent and X-Forwarded-For headers.
168            More prometheus metrics.
169            Support for eliding dots or extraneous slashes in path names.
170
171debuginfod-find: Accept /path/names in place of buildid hex.
172
173libelf: Handle PN_XNUM in elf_getphdrnum before shdr 0 is cached
174        Ensure zlib resource cleanup on failure.
175
176libdwfl: dwfl_linux_kernel_find_elf and dwfl_linux_kernel_report_offline
177         now find and handle a compressed vmlinuz image.
178
179readelf, elflint: Handle PT_GNU_PROPERTY.
180
181translations: Updated Ukrainian translation.
182
183Version 0.178
184
185debuginfod: New server, client tool and library to index and fetch
186            ELF/DWARF files addressed by build-id through HTTP.
187
188doc: There are now some manual pages for functions and tools.
189
190backends: The libebl libraries are no longer dynamically loaded through
191          dlopen, but are now compiled into libdw.so directly.
192
193readelf: -n, --notes now takes an optional "SECTION" argument.
194         -p and -x now also handle section numbers.
195         New option --dyn-sym to show just the dynamic symbol table.
196
197libcpu: Add RISC-V disassembler.
198
199libdw: Abbrevs and DIEs can now be read concurrently by multiple
200       threads through the same Dwarf handle.
201
202libdwfl: Will try to use debuginfod when installed as fallback to
203         retrieve ELF and DWARF debug data files by build-id.
204
205Version 0.177
206
207elfclassify: New tool to analyze ELF objects.
208
209readelf: Print DW_AT_data_member_location as decimal offset.
210         Decode DW_AT_discr_list block attributes.
211
212libdw: Add DW_AT_GNU_numerator, DW_AT_GNU_denominator and DW_AT_GNU_bias.
213
214libdwelf: Add dwelf_elf_e_machine_string.
215          dwelf_elf_begin now only returns NULL when there is an error
216          reading or decompressing a file. If the file is not an ELF file
217          an ELF handle of type ELF_K_NONE is returned.
218
219backends: Add support for C-SKY.
220
221Version 0.176
222
223build: Add new --enable-install-elfh option.
224       Do NOT use this for system installs (it overrides glibc elf.h).
225
226backends: riscv improved core file and return value location support.
227
228Fixes CVE-2019-7146, CVE-2019-7148, CVE-2019-7149, CVE-2019-7150,
229      CVE-2019-7664, CVE-2019-7665
230
231Version 0.175
232
233readelf: Handle multiple .debug_macro sections.
234         Recognize and parse GNU Property notes, NT_VERSION notes
235         and GNU Build Attribute ELF Notes.
236
237strip: Handle SHT_GROUP correctly.
238       Add strip --reloc-debug-sections-only option.
239       Handle relocations against GNU compressed sections.
240
241libdwelf: New function dwelf_elf_begin.
242
243libcpu: Recognize bpf jump variants BPF_JLT, BPF_JLE, BPF_JSLT and BPF_JSLE.
244
245backends: RISCV handles ADD/SUB relocations. Handle SHT_X86_64_UNWIND.
246
247Fixes CVE-2018-18310, CVE-2018-18520 and CVE-2018-18521.
248
249Version 0.174
250
251libelf, libdw and all tools now handle extended shnum and shstrndx correctly.
252
253elfcompress: Don't rewrite input file if no section data needs updating.
254             Try harder to keep same file mode bits (suid) on rewrite.
255
256strip: Handle mixed (out of order) allocated/non-allocated sections.
257
258unstrip: Handle SHT_GROUP sections.
259
260backends: RISCV and M68K now have backend implementations to generate CFI based
261          backtraces.
262
263Fixes CVE-2018-16062, CVE-2018-16402 and CVE-2018-16403.
264
265Version 0.173
266
267More fixes for crashes and hangs found by afl-fuzz. In particular various
268functions now detect and break infinite loops caused by bad DIE tree cycles.
269
270readelf: Will now lookup the size and signedness of constant value types
271         to display them correctly (and not just how they were encoded).
272
273libdw: New function dwarf_next_lines to read CU-less .debug_line data.
274       dwarf_begin_elf now accepts ELF files containing just .debug_line
275       or .debug_frame sections (which can be read without needing a DIE
276       tree from the .debug_info section).
277       Removed dwarf_getscn_info, which was never implemented.
278
279backends: Handle BPF simple relocations.
280          The RISCV backends now handles ABI specific CFI and knows about
281          RISCV register types and names.
282
283Version 0.172
284
285No functional changes compared to 0.171.
286
287Various bug fixes in libdw and eu-readelf dealing with bad DWARF5 data.
288Thanks to running the afl fuzzer on eu-readelf and various testcases.
289
290eu-readelf -N is ~15% faster.
291
292Version 0.171
293
294DWARF5 and split dwarf, including GNU DebugFission, are supported now.
295Data can be read from the new DWARF sections .debug_addr, .debug_line_str,
296.debug_loclists, .debug_str_offsets and .debug_rnglists.  Plus the new
297DWARF5 and GNU DebugFission encodings of the existing .debug sections.
298Also in split DWARF .dwo (DWARF object) files.  This support is mostly
299handled by existing functions (dwarf_getlocation*, dwarf_getsrclines,
300dwarf_ranges, dwarf_form*, etc.) now returning the data from the new
301sections and data formats.  But some new functions have been added
302to more easily get information about skeleton and split compile units
303(dwarf_get_units and dwarf_cu_info), handle new attribute data
304(dwarf_getabbrevattr_data) and to keep references to Dwarf_Dies
305that might come from different sections or files (dwarf_die_addr_die).
306
307Not yet supported are .dwp (Dwarf Package) and .sup (Dwarf Supplementary)
308files, the .debug_names index, the .debug_cu_index and .debug_tu_index
309sections. Only a single .debug_info (and .debug_types) section are
310currently handled.
311
312readelf: Handle all new DWARF5 sections.
313         --debug-dump=info+ will show split unit DIEs when found.
314         --dwarf-skeleton can be used when inspecting a .dwo file.
315	 Recognizes GNU locviews with --debug-dump=loc.
316
317libdw: New functions dwarf_die_addr_die, dwarf_get_units,
318       dwarf_getabbrevattr_data and dwarf_cu_info.
319       libdw will now try to resolve the alt file on first use of
320       an alt attribute FORM when not set yet with dwarf_set_alt.
321       dwarf_aggregate_size() now works with multi-dimensional arrays.
322
323libdwfl: Use process_vm_readv when available instead of ptrace.
324
325backends: Add a RISC-V backend.
326
327There were various improvements to build on Windows.
328The sha1 and md5 implementations have been removed, they weren't used.
329
330Version 0.170
331
332libdw: Added new DWARF5 attribute, tag, character encoding, language code,
333       calling convention, defaulted member function and macro constants
334       to dwarf.h.
335       New functions dwarf_default_lower_bound and dwarf_line_file.
336       dwarf_peel_type now handles DWARF5 immutable, packed and shared tags.
337       dwarf_getmacros now handles DWARF5 .debug_macro sections.
338
339strip: Add -R, --remove-section=SECTION and --keep-section=SECTION.
340
341backends: The bpf disassembler is now always build on all platforms.
342
343Version 0.169
344
345backends: Add support for EM_PPC64 GNU_ATTRIBUTES.
346          Frame pointer unwinding fallback support for i386, x86_64, aarch64.
347
348translations: Update Polish translation.
349
350Version 0.168
351
352http://elfutils.org/ is now hosted at http://sourceware.org/elfutils/
353
354libelf: gelf_newehdr and gelf_newehdr now return void *.
355
356libdw: dwarf.h corrected the DW_LANG_PLI constant name (was DW_LANG_PL1).
357
358readelf: Add optional --symbols[=SECTION] argument to select section name.
359
360Version 0.167
361
362libasm: Add eBPF disassembler for EM_BPF files.
363
364backends: Add m68k and BPF backends.
365
366ld: Removed.
367
368dwelf: Add ELF/DWARF string table creation functions. dwelf_strtab_init,
369       dwelf_strtab_add, dwelf_strtab_add_len, dwelf_strtab_finalize,
370       dwelf_strent_off, dwelf_strent_str and dwelf_strtab_free.
371
372Version 0.166
373
374config: The default program prefix for the installed tools is now eu-.
375        Use configure --program-prefix="" to not use a program prefix.
376
377Version 0.165
378
379elfcompress: New utility to compress or decompress ELF sections.
380
381readelf: Add -z,--decompress option.
382
383libelf: Add elf_compress, elf_compress_gnu, elf32_getchdr, elf64_getchdr
384        and gelf_getchdr.
385
386libdwelf: New function dwelf_scn_gnu_compressed_size.
387
388config: Add libelf and libdw pkg-config files.
389
390backends: sparc support for core and live backtraces.
391
392translations: Updated Polish translation.
393
394Version 0.164
395
396strip, unstrip: Handle ELF files with merged strtab/shstrtab tables.
397                Handle missing SHF_INFO_LINK section flags.
398
399libelf: Use int64_t for offsets in libelf.h instead of loff_t.
400
401libdw: dwarf.h Add preliminary DWARF5 DW_LANG_Haskell.
402
403libdwfl: dwfl_standard_find_debuginfo now searches any subdir of the binary
404         path under the debuginfo root when the separate debug file couldn't
405         be found by build-id.
406         dwfl_linux_proc_attach can now be called before any Dwfl_Modules
407         have been reported.
408
409backends: Better sparc and sparc64 support.
410
411translations: Updated Ukrainian translation.
412
413Provide default-yama-scope subpackage.
414
415Version 0.163
416
417Bug fixes only, no new features.
418
419Version 0.162
420
421libdw: Install new header elfutils/known-dwarf.h.
422       dwarf.h Add preliminary DWARF5 constants DW_TAG_atomic_type,
423       DW_LANG_Fortran03, DW_LANG_Fortran08. dwarf_peel_type now also
424       handles DW_TAG_atomic_type.
425
426addr2line: Input addresses are now always interpreted as hexadecimal
427           numbers, never as octal or decimal numbers.
428           New option -a, --addresses to print address before each entry.
429           New option -C, --demangle to show demangled symbols.
430           New option --pretty-print to print all information on one line.
431
432ar: CVE-2014-9447 Directory traversal vulnerability in ar extraction.
433
434backends: x32 support.
435
436Version 0.161
437
438libdw: New function dwarf_peel_type. dwarf_aggregate_size now uses
439       dwarf_peel_type to also provide the sizes of qualified types.
440       dwarf_getmacros will now serve either of .debug_macro and
441       .debug_macinfo transparently.  New interfaces
442       dwarf_getmacros_off, dwarf_macro_getsrcfiles,
443       dwarf_macro_getparamcnt, and dwarf_macro_param are available
444       for more generalized inspection of macros and their parameters.
445       dwarf.h: Add DW_AT_GNU_deleted, DW_AT_noreturn, DW_LANG_C11,
446       DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_11 and DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_14.
447
448Version 0.160
449
450libdw: New functions dwarf_cu_getdwarf, dwarf_cu_die.
451       dwarf.h remove non-existing DW_TAG_mutable_type.
452
453libdwfl: Handle LZMA .ko.xz compressed kernel modules.
454
455unstrip: New option -F, --force to combining files even if some ELF headers
456         don't seem to match.
457
458backends: Handle ARM THUMB functions. Add support for ppc64le ELFv2 abi.
459
460Version 0.159
461
462stack: New option -d, --debugname to lookup DWARF debuginfo name for frame.
463       New option -i, --inlines to show inlined frames using DWARF debuginfo.
464
465libdwelf: New libdwelf.h header for libdw.so DWARF ELF Low-level Functions.
466          New function dwelf_elf_gnu_debuglink, dwelf_dwarf_gnu_debugaltlink,
467	  and dwelf_elf_gnu_build_id.
468
469libdw: Support for DWZ multifile forms DW_FORM_GNU_ref_alt and
470       DW_FORM_GNU_strp_alt is now enabled by default and no longer
471       experimental. Added new functions dwarf_getalt and dwarf_setalt
472       to get or set the alternative debug file used for the alt FORMs.
473       The dwfl_linux_proc_find_elf callback will now find ELF from
474       process memory for (deleted) files if the Dwfl has process state
475       attached.
476
477libdwfl: The dwfl_build_id_find_debuginfo and dwfl_standard_find_debuginfo
478         functions will now try to resolve and set the alternative debug file.
479
480backends: Add CFI unwinding for arm. Relies on .debug_frame.
481          Add arm process initial register state compatible mode to AARCH64.
482          Add aarch64 native and core unwind support.
483
484other: All separate elfutils-robustify patches have been merged.
485       CVE-2014-0172 Check overflow before calling malloc to uncompress data.
486
487Version 0.158
488
489libdwfl: dwfl_core_file_report has new parameter executable.
490         New functions dwfl_module_getsymtab_first_global,
491         dwfl_module_getsym_info and dwfl_module_addrinfo.
492         Added unwinder with type Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks, opaque types
493         Dwfl_Thread and Dwfl_Frame and functions dwfl_attach_state,
494         dwfl_pid, dwfl_thread_dwfl, dwfl_thread_tid, dwfl_frame_thread,
495         dwfl_thread_state_registers, dwfl_thread_state_register_pc,
496         dwfl_getthread_frames, dwfl_getthreads, dwfl_thread_getframes
497         and dwfl_frame_pc.
498
499addr2line: New option -x to show the section an address was found in.
500
501stack: New utility that uses the new unwinder for processes and cores.
502
503backends: Unwinder support for i386, x86_64, s390, s390x, ppc and ppc64.
504          aarch64 support.
505
506Version 0.157
507
508libdw: Add new functions dwarf_getlocations, dwarf_getlocation_attr
509       and dwarf_getlocation_die.
510
511readelf: Show contents of NT_SIGINFO and NT_FILE core notes.
512
513addr2line: Support -i, --inlines output option.
514
515backends: abi_cfi hook for arm, ppc and s390.
516
517Version 0.156
518
519lib: New macro COMPAT_VERSION_NEWPROTO.
520
521libdw: Handle GNU extension opcodes in dwarf_getlocation.
522
523libdwfl: Fix STB_GLOBAL over STB_WEAK preference in dwfl_module_addrsym.
524         Add minisymtab support.
525         Add parameter add_p_vaddr to dwfl_report_elf.
526         Use DT_DEBUG library search first.
527
528libebl: Handle new core note types in EBL.
529
530backends: Interpret NT_ARM_VFP.
531          Implement core file registers parsing for s390/s390x.
532
533readelf: Add --elf-section input option to inspect an embedded ELF file.
534         Add -U, --unresolved-address-offsets output control.
535         Add --debug-dump=decodedline support.
536         Accept version 8 .gdb_index section format.
537         Adjust output formatting width.
538         When highpc is in constant form print it also as address.
539         Display raw .debug_aranges. Use libdw only for decodedaranges.
540
541elflint: Add __bss_start__ to the list of allowed symbols.
542
543tests: Add configure --enable-valgrind option to run all tests under valgrind.
544       Enable automake parallel-tests for make check.
545
546translations: Updated Polish translation.
547
548Updates for Automake 1.13.
549
550Version 0.155
551
552libelf: elf*_xlatetomd now works for cross-endian ELF note data.
553        elf_getshdr now works consistently on non-mmaped ELF files after
554        calling elf_cntl(ELF_C_FDREAD).
555        Implement support for ar archives with 64-bit symbol table.
556
557libdw: dwarf.h corrected the DW_LANG_ObjC constant name (was DW_LANG_Objc).
558       Any existing sources using the old name will have to be updated.
559       Add DW_MACRO_GNU .debug_macro type encodings constants, DW_ATE_UTF
560       and DW_OP_GNU_parameter_ref to dwarf.h.
561       Experimental support for DWZ multifile forms DW_FORM_GNU_ref_alt
562       and DW_FORM_GNU_strp_alt.  Disabled by default.  Use configure
563       --enable-dwz to test it.
564
565readelf: Add .debug_macro parsing support.
566         Add .gdb_index version 7 parsing support.
567         Recognize DW_OP_GNU_parameter_ref.
568
569backends: Add support for Tilera TILE-Gx processor.
570
571translations: Updated Ukrainian translation.
572
573Version 0.154
574
575libelf: [g]elf[32|64]_offscn() do not match SHT_NOBITS sections at OFFSET.
576
577libdw: dwarf_highpc function now handles DWARF 4 DW_AT_high_pc constant form.
578       Fix bug using dwarf_next_unit to iterate over .debug_types.
579
580elflint: Now accepts gold linker produced executables.
581
582The license is now GPLv2/LGPLv3+ for the libraries and GPLv3+ for stand-alone
583programs. There is now also a formal CONTRIBUTING document describing how to
584submit patches.
585
586Version 0.153
587
588libdw: Support reading .zdebug_* DWARF sections compressed via zlib.
589
590libdwfl: Speed up dwfl_module_addrsym.
591
592nm: Support C++ demangling.
593
594ar: Support D modifier for "deterministic output" with no uid/gid/mtime info.
595    The U modifier is the inverse.
596    elfutils can be configured with the --enable-deterministic-archives
597    option to make the D behavior the default when U is not specified.
598
599ranlib: Support -D and -U flags with same meaning.
600
601readelf: Improve output of -wline. Add support for printing SDT elf notes.
602         Add printing of .gdb_index section.
603	 Support for typed DWARF stack, call_site and entry_value.
604
605strip: Add --reloc-debug-sections option.
606       Improved SHT_GROUP sections handling.
607
608Version 0.152
609
610Various build and warning nits fixed for newest GCC and Autoconf.
611
612libdwfl: Yet another prelink-related fix for another regression.
613	 Look for Linux kernel images in files named with compression suffixes.
614
615elfcmp: New flag --ignore-build-id to ignore differing build ID bits.
616	New flag -l/--verbose to print all differences.
617
618Version 0.151
619
620libdwfl: Fix for more prelink cases with separate debug file.
621
622strip: New flag --strip-sections to remove section headers entirely.
623
624Version 0.150
625
626libdw: Fix for handling huge .debug_aranges section.
627
628libdwfl: Fix for handling prelinked DSO with separate debug file.
629
630findtextrel: Fix diagnostics to work with usual section ordering.
631
632libebl: i386 backend fix for multi-register integer return value location.
633
634Version 0.149:
635
636libdw: Decode new DW_OP_GNU_implicit_pointer operation;
637       new function dwarf_getlocation_implicit_pointer.
638
639libdwfl: New function dwfl_dwarf_line.
640
641addr2line: New flag -F/--flags to print more DWARF line information details.
642
643strip: -g recognizes .gdb_index as a debugging section.
644
645Version 0.148:
646
647libdw: Accept DWARF 4 format: new functions dwarf_next_unit, dwarf_offdie_types.
648       New functions dwarf_lineisa, dwarf_linediscriminator, dwarf_lineop_index.
649
650libdwfl: Fixes in core-file handling, support cores from PIEs.
651	 When working from build IDs, don't open a named file that mismatches.
652
653readelf: Handle DWARF 4 formats.
654
655Version 0.147:
656
657libdw: Fixes in CFI handling, best possible handling of bogus CFA ops.
658
659libdwfl: Ignore R_*_NONE relocs, works around old (binutils) ld -r bugs.
660
661Version 0.146:
662
663libdwfl: New function dwfl_core_file_report.
664
665Version 0.145:
666
667Fix build with --disable-dependency-tracking.
668
669Fix build with most recent glibc headers.
670
671libelf: More robust to bogus section headers.
672
673libdw: Fix CFI decoding.
674
675libdwfl: Fix address bias returned by CFI accessors.
676	 Fix core file module layout identification.
677
678readelf: Fix CFI decoding.
679
680Version 0.144:
681
682libelf: New function elf_getphdrnum.
683	Now support using more than 65536 program headers in a file.
684
685libdw: New function dwarf_aggregate_size for computing (constant) type
686       sizes, including array_type cases with nontrivial calculation.
687
688readelf: Don't give errors for missing info under -a.
689	 Handle Linux "VMCOREINFO" notes under -n.
690
691Version 0.143:
692
693libdw: Various convenience functions for individual attributes now use
694       dwarf_attr_integrate to look up indirect inherited attributes.
695       Location expression handling now supports DW_OP_implicit_value.
696
697libdwfl: Support automatic decompression of files in XZ format,
698	 and of Linux kernel images made with bzip2 or LZMA (as well as gzip).
699
700Version 0.142:
701
702libelf: Add elf_getshdrnum alias for elf_getshnum and elf_getshdrstrndx alias
703	for elf_getshstrndx and deprecate original names.  Sun screwed up
704	their implementation and asked for a solution.
705
706libebl: Add support for STB_GNU_UNIQUE.
707
708elflint: Add support for STB_GNU_UNIQUE.
709
710readelf: Add -N option, speeds up DWARF printing without address->name lookups.
711
712libdw: Add support for decoding DWARF CFI into location description form.
713       Handle some new DWARF 3 expression operations previously omitted.
714       Basic handling of some new encodings slated for DWARF 4.
715
716Version 0.141:
717
718libebl: sparc backend fixes;
719	some more arm backend support
720
721libdwfl: fix dwfl_module_build_id for prelinked DSO case;
722	 fixes in core file support;
723	 dwfl_module_getsym interface improved for non-address symbols
724
725strip: fix infinite loop on strange inputs with -f
726
727addr2line: take -j/--section=NAME option for binutils compatibility
728	   (same effect as '(NAME)0x123' syntax already supported)
729
730Version 0.140:
731
732libelf: Fix regression in creation of section header
733
734libdwfl: Less strict behavior if DWARF reader is just used to display data
735
736Version 0.139:
737
738libcpu: Add Intel SSE4 disassembler support
739
740readelf: Implement call frame information and exception handling dumping.
741	 Add -e option.  Enable it implicitly for -a.
742
743elflint: Check PT_GNU_EH_FRAME program header entry.
744
745libdwfl: Support automatic gzip/bzip2 decompression of ELF files.
746
747Version 0.138:
748
749Install <elfutils/version.h> header file for applications to use in source
750version compatibility checks.
751
752libebl: backend fixes for i386 TLS relocs; backend support for NT_386_IOPERM
753
754libcpu: disassembler fixes
755
756libdwfl: bug fixes
757
758libelf: bug fixes
759
760nm: bug fixes for handling corrupt input files
761
762Version 0.137:
763
764Minor fixes for unreleased 0.136 release.
765
766Version 0.136:
767
768libdwfl: bug fixes; new "segment" interfaces;
769	 all the libdwfl-based tools now support --core=COREFILE option
770
771Version 0.135:
772
773libdwfl: bug fixes
774
775strip: changed handling of ET_REL files wrt symbol tables and relocs
776
777Version 0.134:
778
779elflint: backend improvements for sparc, alpha
780
781libdwfl, libelf: bug fixes
782
783Version 0.133:
784
785readelf, elflint, libebl: SHT_GNU_ATTRIBUTE section handling (readelf -A)
786
787readelf: core note handling for NT_386_TLS, NT_PPC_SPE, Alpha NT_AUXV
788
789libdwfl: bug fixes and optimization in relocation handling
790
791elfcmp: bug fix for non-allocated section handling
792
793ld: implement newer features of binutils linker.
794
795Version 0.132:
796
797libcpu: Implement x86 and x86-64 disassembler.
798libasm: Add interface for disassembler.
799
800all programs: add debugging of branch prediction.
801
802libelf: new function elf_scnshndx.
803
804Version 0.131:
805
806libdw: DW_FORM_ref_addr support; dwarf_formref entry point now deprecated;
807       bug fixes for oddly-formatted DWARF
808
809libdwfl: bug fixes in offline archive support, symbol table handling;
810	 apply partial relocations for dwfl_module_address_section on ET_REL
811
812libebl: powerpc backend support for Altivec registers
813
814Version 0.130:
815
816readelf: -p option can take an argument like -x for one section,
817	 or no argument (as before) for all SHF_STRINGS sections;
818	 new option --archive-index (or -c);
819	 improved -n output for core files, on many machines
820
821libelf: new function elf_getdata_rawchunk, replaces gelf_rawchunk;
822	new functions gelf_getnote, gelf_getauxv, gelf_update_auxv
823
824readelf, elflint: handle SHT_NOTE sections without requiring phdrs
825
826elflint: stricter checks on debug sections
827
828libdwfl: new functions dwfl_build_id_find_elf, dwfl_build_id_find_debuginfo,
829	 dwfl_module_build_id, dwfl_module_report_build_id;
830	 support dynamic symbol tables found via phdrs;
831	 dwfl_standard_find_debuginfo now uses build IDs when available
832
833unstrip: new option --list (or -n)
834
835libebl: backend improvements for sparc, alpha, powerpc
836
837Version 0.129:
838
839readelf: new options --hex-dump (or -x), --strings (or -p)
840
841addr2line: new option --symbols (or -S)
842
843Version 0.128:
844
845new program: unstrip
846
847elfcmp: new option --hash-inexact
848
849Version 0.127:
850
851libdw: new function dwarf_getsrcdirs
852
853libdwfl: new functions dwfl_module_addrsym, dwfl_report_begin_add,
854	 dwfl_module_address_section
855
856Version 0.126:
857
858new program: ar
859
860Version 0.125:
861
862elflint: Compare DT_GNU_HASH tests.
863
864move archives into -static RPMs
865
866libelf, elflint: better support for core file handling
867
868Version 0.124:
869
870libebl: sparc backend support for return value location
871
872libebl, libdwfl: backend register name support extended with more info
873
874libelf, libdw: bug fixes for unaligned accesses on machines that care
875
876readelf, elflint: trivial bugs fixed
877
878Version 0.123:
879
880libebl: Backend build fixes, thanks to Stepan Kasal.
881
882libebl: ia64 backend support for register names, return value location
883
884libdwfl: Handle truncated linux kernel module section names.
885
886libdwfl: Look for linux kernel "vmlinux" files with ".debug" suffix.
887
888elflint: Fix checks to permit --hash-style=gnu format.
889
890Version 0.122:
891
892libebl: add function to test for relative relocation
893
894elflint: fix and extend DT_RELCOUNT/DT_RELACOUNT checks
895
896elflint, readelf: add support for DT_GNU_HASH
897libelf: add elf_gnu_hash
898
899elflint, readelf: add support for 64-bit SysV-style hash tables
900
901libdwfl: new functions dwfl_module_getsymtab, dwfl_module_getsym.
902
903Version 0.121:
904
905libelf: bug fixes for rewriting existing files when using mmap.
906
907make all installed headers usable in C++ code.
908
909readelf: better output format.
910
911elflint: fix tests of dynamic section content.
912
913ld: Implement --as-needed, --execstack, PT_GNU_STACK.  Many small patches.
914
915libdw, libdwfl: handle files without aranges info.
916
917Version 0.120:
918
919Bug fixes.
920
921dwarf.h updated for DWARF 3.0 final specification.
922
923libdwfl: New function dwfl_version.
924
925The license is now GPL for most files.  The libelf, libebl, libdw,
926and libdwfl libraries have additional exceptions.  Add reference to
927OIN.
928
929Version 0.119:
930
931bug fixes
932
933Version 0.118:
934
935elflint: more tests.
936
937libdwfl: New function dwfl_module_register_names.
938
939libebl: New backend hook for register names.
940
941Version 0.117:
942
943libdwfl: New function dwfl_module_return_value_location.
944
945libebl: Backend improvements for several CPUs.
946
947Version 0.116:
948
949libdw: New functions dwarf_ranges, dwarf_entrypc, dwarf_diecu,
950       dwarf_entry_breakpoints.  Removed Dwarf_Func type and functions
951       dwarf_func_name, dwarf_func_lowpc, dwarf_func_highpc,
952       dwarf_func_entrypc, dwarf_func_die; dwarf_getfuncs callback now uses
953       Dwarf_Die, and dwarf_func_file, dwarf_func_line, dwarf_func_col
954       replaced by dwarf_decl_file, dwarf_decl_line, dwarf_decl_column;
955       dwarf_func_inline, dwarf_func_inline_instances now take Dwarf_Die.
956       Type Dwarf_Loc renamed to Dwarf_Op; dwarf_getloclist,
957       dwarf_addrloclists renamed dwarf_getlocation, dwarf_getlocation_addr.
958
959Version 0.115:
960
961libelf: speed-ups of non-mmap reading.
962
963strings: New program.
964
965Implement --enable-gcov option for configure.
966
967libdw: New function dwarf_getscopes_die.
968
969Version 0.114:
970
971libelf: new function elf_getaroff
972
973libdw: Added dwarf_func_die, dwarf_func_inline, dwarf_func_inline_instances.
974
975libdwfl: New functions dwfl_report_offline, dwfl_offline_section_address,
976	 dwfl_linux_kernel_report_offline.
977
978ranlib: new program
979
980Version 0.113:
981
982elflint: relax a bit. Allow version definitions for defined symbols against
983DSO versions also for symbols in nobits sections.  Allow .rodata section
984to have STRINGS and MERGE flag set.
985
986strip: add some more compatibility with binutils.
987
988Version 0.112:
989
990elfcmp: some more relaxation.
991
992elflint: many more tests, especially regarding to symbol versioning.
993
994libelf: Add elfXX_offscn and gelf_offscn.
995
996libasm: asm_begin interface changes.
997
998libebl: Add three new interfaces to directly access machine, class, and
999data encoding information.
1000
1001objdump: New program.  Just the beginning.
1002
1003Version 0.111:
1004
1005libdw: now contains all of libdwfl.  The latter is not installed anymore.
1006
1007elfcmp: little usability tweak, name and index of differing section is printed.
1008
1009Version 0.110:
1010
1011libelf: fix a number of problems with elf_update
1012
1013elfcmp: fix a few bugs.  Compare gaps.
1014
1015Fix a few PLT problems and mudflap build issues.
1016
1017libebl: Don't expose Ebl structure definition in libebl.h.  It's now private.
1018
1019Version 0.109:
1020
1021libebl: Check for matching modules.
1022
1023elflint: Check that copy relocations only happen for OBJECT or NOTYPE symbols.
1024
1025elfcmp: New program.
1026
1027libdwfl: New library.
1028
1029Version 0.108:
1030
1031strip: fix bug introduced in last change
1032
1033libdw: records returned by dwarf_getsrclines are now sorted by address
1034
1035Version 0.107:
1036
1037readelf: improve DWARF output format
1038
1039strip: support Linux kernel modules
1040
1041Version 0.106:
1042
1043libdw: Updated dwarf.h from DWARF3 spec
1044libdw: add new functions dwarf_func_entrypc, dwarf_func_file, dwarf_func_line,
1045dwarf_func_col, dwarf_getsrc_file
1046
1047Version 0.105:
1048
1049addr2line: New program
1050
1051libdw: add new functions: dwarf_addrdie, dwarf_macro_*, dwarf_getfuncs,
1052dwarf_func_*.
1053
1054findtextrel: use dwarf_addrdie
1055
1056Version 0.104:
1057
1058findtextrel: New program.
1059
1060Version 0.103:
1061
1062libdw: Fix using libdw.h with gcc < 4 and C++ code.  Compiler bug.
1063
1064Version 0.102:
1065
1066More Makefile and spec file cleanups.
1067
1068Version 0.101:
1069
1070Remove most gettext autoconf handling.
1071
1072Add more warnings
1073
1074Fix resulting problems.  One actual bug found and fixed this way
1075
1076Version 0.100:
1077
1078libebl: Fix x86-64 relocations.
1079
1080Add -Wunused -Wextra warnings.
1081
1082Some cleanups resulting from those additional warnings.
1083
1084Lots of Makefile cleanup.
1085
1086Version 0.99:
1087
1088libelf: add gelf_checksum prototype to <libelf.h>
1089
1090libelf: fix elf*_checksum handling of NOBITS sections
1091
1092Finish mudflap support.
1093
1094Fix three bugs found by mudflap.
1095
1096ld: add as_needed support
1097
1098Version 0.98:
1099
1100readelf: in section to segment mapping, indicate read-only sections.
1101
1102elflint: more relaxation for GNU ld
1103
1104Version 0.97:
1105
1106Fix compiling with gcc 4.0.
1107Some tests called elflint without appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
1108
1109Version 0.96:
1110
1111Fix support for platforms with lib64.
1112
1113Version 0.95:
1114
1115libebl: add ppc and ppc64 support
1116
1117readelf: fix minimal memory leak.
1118
1119Add support to compile with mudflap.
1120
1121Modernize configure.ac.  Move scripts in config subdir.
1122
1123Modernize *-po directory infrastructure.
1124
1125libelf: Add gelf_getlib and gelf_update_lib
1126
1127readelf: print liblist sections
1128
1129Version 0.94:
1130
1131Fix some minimal build problems.
1132
1133Version 0.93:
1134
1135ibdw: tons of new functionality and bug fixes.  Several interface changes.
1136
1137readelf: use libdw now.
1138
1139libdwarf: removed completely.
1140
1141Version 0.92:
1142
1143configuration changes.
1144
1145Version 0.91:
1146
1147libdw: fix memory handling.  Implement source line handling.
1148nm: use libdw instead of libdwarf.
1149libelf: change to GPL from OSL1 for now.
1150
1151Version 0.90:
1152
1153libebl: Recognize a few more section types and dynamic tags and return
1154appropriate strings.
1155
1156Version 0.89:
1157
1158strip: fix overwriting of symbol table in input file.
1159
1160Version 0.88:
1161
1162libebl: Add some ia64 bits.
1163
1164Version 0.87:
1165
1166Bug fixes for big endian and some 64-bit machines.
1167
1168Version 0.86:
1169
1170strip: fix handling of Alpha and s390x which use incorrect hash bucket sizes.
1171
1172ld: tons of changes, moving towards usability.
1173
1174Version 0.85:
1175
1176strip: update section group symbol index if the associated symbol table changed
1177
1178libelf: fix two problems with generating output not via mmap
1179
1180elflint: add probably 10-15 more tests
1181libebl: add support for some of the new tests
1182
1183ld: gazillion changes
1184
1185Version 0.84:
1186
1187elflint: deal with .rel.dyn section.  Fix a problem with rela platforms.
1188Handle PT_GNU_STACK.  Change to write messages to stdout.
1189
1190readelf: fix a problem with version information in the symbol table output.
1191
1192strip: update all version symbol table entries
1193
1194Version 0.83:
1195
1196size: fix a warning
1197
1198strip: last changed caused problems when the symbol table is before the
1199relocation section.  Fixed.  This fix also improved the asymptotic
1200behavior if many symbol table sections are present.
1201
1202Version 0.82:
1203
1204Run strip tests with the correct libelf and libebl.
1205
1206libelf: fix bug in verneed byte order changing code.
1207
1208Version 0.81:
1209
1210strip: Remove unused symbol table entries.  This might require updating
1211various other sections.
1212
1213Version 0.80:
1214
1215Fix some libelf problems with ET_REL files.
1216
1217Version 0.79:
1218
1219More warning changes, mainly by jbj.
1220
1221libdw: yet more new code.  dwarf_child and dwarf_sibling should now actually
1222work.
1223
1224Version 0.78:
1225
1226libdw: 10+ new functions.  get-pubnames2 works now fully.  Almost all the
1227code needed for nm is in place.
1228
1229Version 0.77:
1230
1231cleanups to compile cleanly with gcc 3.3 and -Werror.
1232
1233libdw: some new code.
1234
1235Version 0.76:
1236
1237libebl: Fix last patch to recognize relocation sections.   We must not
1238use the name.
1239
1240Version 0.75:
1241
1242libebl: .debug_ranges is a DWARF 3 debug section
1243libebl: recognize relocation sections for debug section
1244Patches by Jakub Jelinek.
1245
1246Version 0.74:
1247
1248Cleanups and more SPARC support by Tom Callaway <tcallaway@redhat.com>.
1249
1250Version 0.73:
1251
125264-bit cleanups for the programs.
1253
1254Version 0.72:
1255
1256libelf: and yet more fun with endian transformation at output time.
1257
1258Version 0.71:
1259
1260libelf: more fun with endian transformation at output time.  Add test for it.
1261
1262Version 0.70:
1263
1264libelf: Two little bugs left from previous patch to handle section output
1265order.
1266
1267libelf: add unlikely in some more places.
1268
1269Version 0.69:
1270
1271libelf: fix output routines to handle case where section indices and
1272ordre in the output file don't match correctly.  Patch by Jakub.
1273
1274elflint: fix test of note section content for 64-bit platforms and files
1275with different byte order.
1276
1277Version 0.68:
1278
1279libebl: Fix SH_ENTSIZE_HASH definition (patch by Jakub)
1280
1281Version 0.67:
1282
1283libelf: correct mistake in error string handling.
1284
1285libelf: Implement ELF_F_PERMISSIVE.
1286strip: Implement --permissive option.
1287
1288Version 0.66:
1289
1290strip: Implement -g option.
1291
1292libelf: Handle broken hash table entry sizes.
1293
1294libebl: New function ebl_debugscn_p.  Use it where appropriate.
1295
1296Version 0.65:
1297
1298libelf: Use correct file size for NOBITS section with ELF_F_LAYOUT set
1299
1300Version 0.64:
1301
1302libelf: Make error handling more robust.
1303libelf: Use TLS in error handler if configured with --enable-tls
1304
1305tests: input files are now distributed, not uuencoded in the shell scripts
1306
1307libdw: implement error handling, dwarf_get_pubnames
1308
1309Version 0.63:
1310
1311Build (incomplete) libdw.
1312
1313Version 0.62:
1314
1315Get rid of libtool.
1316
1317Version 0.61:
1318
1319Fix URL of OSL.
1320
1321Version 0.60:
1322
1323libebl: Handle .gnu.warning.* sections correctly.
1324
1325size: Implement -t option.
1326
1327libebl: Add IA-64 support.
1328libebl: Update SH relocations.
1329libebl: Add Alpha support.
1330libebl: Add Arm support.
1331libebl: Add support for all currently known architecture to the loader.
1332
1333Version 0.59:
1334
1335nm: Implement -S option.  Correct portable output format.  Implement -s option.
1336
1337libelf: Take offset of archive into account in elf_rand.
1338
1339Version 0.58:
1340
1341strip: fix handling of ET_REL files.
1342Add tests for strip.
1343
1344Version 0.57:
1345
1346strip: respect layout of input file
1347
1348Version 0.56:
1349
1350strip: handle files with large number of sections.
1351
1352Version 0.55:
1353
1354libelf: quite a few bug fixes by Alex Larsson.
1355
1356strip: implement -f option to place stripped sections into a separate
1357file.  By Alex Larsson.
1358
1359Version 0.54:
1360
1361strip: don't let STT_SECTION symbols keeps sections from being removed
1362
1363elflint: local symbols are allowed in .dynsym
1364elflint: special case .rel.dyn a bit
1365
1366Version 0.53:
1367
1368elflint: check types and flags of special sections defined in gABI
1369
1370libebl: add x86-64 support
1371
1372Version 0.52:
1373
1374Start improvement of debug info handling in nm.
1375
1376libasm: implement asm_adduleb128 and asm_addsleb128 and a test for them
1377
1378Version 0.51:
1379
1380Fix build on 64-bit platforms.
1381
1382Version 0.50:
1383
1384nm: print file/line number also for local symbols
1385
1386use versions scripts not libtool's useless -export-symbols option
1387
1388Version 0.49:
1389
1390Update to autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7.
1391
1392elflint: check note sections
1393
1394libdwarf: a number of bug fixes
1395
1396readelf: print .debug_info section content
1397
1398dwarf.h: Update from draft 7
1399
1400Version 0.48:
1401
1402libcpu: beginning
1403
1404libelf: new function to read parts of the ELF file
1405
1406libebl: support for note section handling
1407
1408readelf: dump note sections
1409
1410Version 0.47:
1411
1412libelf: fix little new section-handling related bugs in elf_getshstrndx
1413and elf_nextscn
1414
1415elflint: tests for mandatory content of dynamic section
1416
1417libasm: better handling of absolute symbols
1418
1419Version 0.46:
1420
1421libasm: rewrite to store Elf_Scn* instead of indices
1422
1423nm: finish many-section support
1424
1425nm: use debug in to print file/line info in sysv format
1426
1427libdwarf: fix a few bugs in DIE handling
1428
1429Version 0.45:
1430
1431libelf: major rewrite to keep Elf_Scn references valid until elf_end
1432
1433Version 0.44:
1434
1435libasm: Add support for bss, ABS, and COM sections.
1436
1437libebl: ebl_section_name takes now two index arguments to distinguish
1438between special sections and extended sections
1439
1440Version 0.43:
1441
1442General: fix a few problem gcc 3.1 had with the code.
1443
1444libelf: implement {gelf,elf32,elf64}_checksum
1445
1446libelf: optimize DSO: fewer relocations, fewer PLTs
1447
1448add msg_tst test
1449
1450ld: use correct section header string table index; write correct index
1451
1452add dependencies for *.sym files
1453
1454Version 0.42:
1455
1456libelf: add elf_getshnum and elf_getshstrndx
1457
1458libebl: update section type name function
1459
1460elflint: tons of fixes wrt large number of sections.  New tests in this area.
1461Same amount of other bug fixes.
1462
1463size, strip, nm: better support for large number of sections.  Including
1464using correct section header string table
1465
1466libasm: correctly create data structures for large number of sections
1467
1468new tests asm-tst4 and asm-tst5 to check large number of sections
1469
1470libasm: implement section group generation
1471
1472elflint: more tests on section groups.  Improve performance on existing
1473section group tests
1474
1475Version 0.41:
1476
1477ld: add undefined symbols to dynamic symbol table if --export-dynamic is
1478not given
1479
1480ld: fix value of e_entry
1481
1482Version 0.40:
1483
1484elflint: print section names in error messages
1485
1486elflint: mustn't warn about multiple DT_NULL
1487
1488ld: don't emit all symbols if --export-dynamic is not given
1489
1490ld: correct compute symbol address in output file (section index was off by 1)
1491
1492ld: generate correct version info in dynsym without --export-dynamic and
1493in symtab
1494
1495Version 0.39:
1496
1497Fix check of various e_*size entries in elflint.
1498
1499Handle text output in asm_newsym.
1500
1501Finish checks in asm-tst3.
1502
1503Version 0.38:
1504
1505Update to autoconf 2.53, automake 1.6, gettext 0.11+.
1506
1507Introduce *.sym files to restrict export from DSOs.
1508
1509Use attribute_hidden and internal_function to optimize DSO code.
1510
1511Add TLS definitions in elf.h and handle them in readelf.
1512
1513Fix bug in verdef section generation in ld.
1514
1515Add initial libasm code.
1516
1517Version 0.37:
1518
1519Implement better hash size optimization heuristic in ld.  It uses a formula
1520taking number of tests into account.
1521
1522Lots of small bug fixes.
1523
1524Improve readelf output format.  Respect various sh_link/sh_info values.
1525Correctly print versioning information for symbol tables.
1526
1527Version 0.36:
1528
1529Implement preprocessing of linker script.  Recognize -z combreloc.
1530
1531Version 0.35:
1532
1533Implement -z ignore|record for ld.
1534
1535Implement creating of .gnu.version_r and .gnu.version sections.  The
1536.gnu.version does not yet contain correct info for defined and versioned
1537symbols (means .gnu.version_d is not yet implemented).
1538
1539Implement gelf_update_* functions to create versioning data.
1540
1541Version 0.34:
1542
1543Add DT_RUNPATH/DT_RPATH entries to dynamic section.  Create .plt and
1544.rel.plt sections (completely).  Add support for all four PLT related
1545dynamic section entries.  Add callback function for PLT creation.
1546
1547More tests in elflint.  Add support for very strict checking which for
1548now flags level 2 (deprecated features) usage.
1549
1550Version 0.33:
1551
1552Create dynamic symbol table, dynamic string table, and hash table to ld.
1553
1554Add hash table histogram support to readelf.
1555
1556Version 0.32:
1557
1558more work on elflint
1559
1560ld now creates the dynamic section and references it.  Start adding entries
1561to dynamic section.
1562
1563Version 0.31:
1564
1565Start implementing elflint.
1566
1567Version 0.30:
1568
1569Fix handling of NOBITS sections in elf_getdata.
1570
1571Start implementing generation of executables and DSOs in ld.
1572Generation of program header mostly done.  Address computation done.
1573Extension of linker script syntax.
1574
1575Various cleanups.
1576
1577Implement section group handling in readelf.
1578
1579Version 0.29:
1580
1581Implement section groups.  This involved a lot of code moving.  The
1582new code is entirely untested since gas/gcc are currently not able to
1583create section groups.  ld works fine on files without section groups.
1584
1585Version 0.28:
1586
1587Fix problem with adding more section in elf_newscn.  The section pointers
1588for the data buffers wasn't adjusted.
1589
1590Fix elf_getdata with nonzero second parameter.  Correctly handle creation
1591of internal data buffer for machines without unaligned access.
1592
1593Version 0.27:
1594
1595Start adding support to selectively add sections.  Includes support for
1596section groups.
1597Add --gc-sections/--no-gc-sections options.
1598Add general section merging support.
1599
1600Fix a bug in section group support in strip.
1601
1602Fix some potential problems with hash value in dynamic hash implementation.
1603
1604Version 0.26:
1605
1606section merging works in ld.
1607
1608Version 0.25:
1609
1610Actually create data structures from version map file and use it to hide
1611symbols in ld.
1612
1613Implement -s -s for ld.
1614
1615Version 0.24:
1616
1617Improve relocation table output in readelf.  Avoid some crashes.
1618Finish many section handling in readelf.
1619
1620Finish: finish implementation of ld -r.  At least some simple tests pass.
1621
1622Version 0.23:
1623
1624Fix a number of errors in ELF_C_WRITE handling.
1625
1626Almost finished implementation of ld -r.  The data sections are all copied.
1627Handling of symbol tables is missing.
1628
1629Version 0.22:
1630
1631Handle DSO and archive input files correctly if -r option is given.
1632
1633Gracefully deal with no phdr in new file in libelf.
1634Fix various small error handling problems.
1635Don't mmap file for output unless the command says so.
1636
1637Add code to create ELF section header table to ld finalize routines.
1638
1639Version 0.21:
1640
1641Fix some problems with recursive handling of archives in libelf.
1642
1643Improve messages printed by nm.
1644
1645Add symbol binding name handling to libebl.  Fix section name handling in
1646libebl.
1647
1648readelf and nm use more libebl functions.
1649
1650Handle XINDEX correctly in nm and string.
1651
1652Add first machine ld backend library (i386).
1653Use it.  Recognize -r and --shared.  Avoid using -lxxx parameters for -r.
1654Create ELF header in output file.  Change mode of output file according to
1655output file type.  Reorganize callback initialization in ld.
1656
1657Version 0.20:
1658
1659Fix some memory leaks in libelf.
1660
1661Version 0.19:
1662
1663Implement reading version script.  Both inside linker scripts and via the
1664--version-script command line parameter.  Uses the same code.
1665What remains to be done is to implement a data structure which allows
1666efficient matching against the version names to decide which pattern
1667matches.
1668
1669Beginning of output generation and output writing functions.
1670
1671Version 0.18:
1672
1673Finish implementation for DSO input file handling.  Implement rpath, runpath,
1674and LD_LIBRARY_PATH handling.
1675
1676Version 0.17:
1677
1678make handling of e_shnum overflow in libelf standard conforming
1679
1680ld now actually can handle DSOs in linker scripts.  Handling of DT_RUNPATH,
1681DT_RPATH, -rpath, -rpath-link still remains to be implemented.
1682
1683fix handling of -L parameters.  Make actual use of the default_paths element.
1684
1685make re-definition of symbols in and from DSO compatible with existing linker
1686
1687Version 0.16:
1688
1689more work on assigning input sections to output sections.
1690
1691Add gelf_xlatetof and gelf_xlatetom which were accidentally left out.
1692
1693Fix memory handling of section headers.
1694
1695Version 0.15:
1696
1697Add many-section support to ld.  Add various new command line parameters.
1698Allow pagesize to be specified in linker script or on the command line.
1699Collect input sections in list for the output section according to the rules
1700specified in the linker script.
1701
1702Version 0.14:
1703
1704Fix some problems in the internal list handling which had the result
1705that we didn't look for some of the unresolved symbols.
1706
1707Free some memory if we know we don't need it anymore.
1708
1709Optimize the list of unresolved symbols.  Throw out symbols which are
1710meanwhile resolved.
1711
1712Version 0.13:
1713
1714Got file reading correct now.  The files are all read while parsing
1715the parameters.  No creating of data structures to describe the linker
1716command line.  The symbol table is built up while reading the files.
1717DSOs are handled now.  -( -) handling is optimized.
1718
1719Version 0.12:
1720
1721Linker read linker scripts everywhere.  Handles --whole-archive.  Recognizes
1722--dynamic and --static.  Collects defined and undefined symbols.  Recognizes
1723conflicts.
1724
1725libebl now defines functions to call the callbacks.  Add generic name handling
1726in these new functions.  Remove the code from readelf and call the new
1727functions.
1728
1729Version 0.11:
1730
1731Start of linker.  Basic argument parsing, finding of input files,
1732linker script reading.
1733
1734Version 0.10:
1735
1736Implement dwarf_get_fde_n(), dwarf_get_abbrev(), dwarf_get_abbrev_tag(),
1737dwarf_get_abbrev_code(), dwarf_get_abbrev_children_flag(),
1738dwarf_get_abbrev_entry(), dwarf_get_fde_at_pc(), and tests for it.
1739
1740Version 0.9:
1741
1742Implement dwarf_get_fde_list_eh(), dwarf_get_cie_of_fde(),
1743dwarf_get_fde_range(), dwarf_get_cie_info(), dwarf_get_fde_instr_bytes(),
1744and tests for them.
1745
1746Version 0.8:
1747
1748Make handling of binaries in other byte order work and add tests for it.
1749
1750Version 0.7:
1751
1752Implement dwarf_get_aranges(), dwarf_get_arange(), dwarf_get_cu_die_offset(),
1753dwarf_get_arange_info(), and tests for them.
1754
1755Version 0.6:
1756
1757Implement dwarf_get_global(), dwarf_globname(), dwarf_global_die_offset(),
1758dwarf_global_cu_offset(), dwarf_global_name_offsets(), and tests for them
1759
1760Version 0.5:
1761
1762Implemented dwarf_srclines(), dwarf_srcfiles(), dwarf_linebeginstatement(),
1763dwarf_lineendsequence(), dwarf_lineno(), dwarf_lineaddr(), dwarf_lineoff(),
1764dwarf_linesrc(), dwarf_lineblock(), dwarf_lineprologueend(),
1765dwarf_lineepiloguebegin(), and tests for them.
1766
1767Version 0.4:
1768
1769Implemented dwarf_loclist().
1770
1771Version 0.3:
1772
1773Implemented dwarf_dieoffset(), dwarf_die_CU_offset(), dwarf_diename() and
1774tests.
1775
1776Implemented dwarf_attrlist(), dwarf_hasattr(), dwarf_attr(), dwarf_lowpc(),
1777dwarf_highpc(), dwarf_bytesize(), dwarf_bitsize(), dwarf_bitoffset(),
1778dwarf_srclang(), dwarf_arrayorder(), dwarf_hasform(), dwarf_whatform(),
1779dwarf_whatattr(), dwarf_formref(), dwarf_global_formref(), dwarf_formaddr(),
1780dwarf_formflag(), dwarf_formudata(), dwarf_formsdata(), dwarf_formblock,
1781dwarf_formstring() and tests for them.
1782
1783Version 0.2:
1784
1785Implemented dwarf_offdie()), dwarf_tag(), dwarf_dieoffset(),
1786dwarf_die_CU_offset(), dwarf_diename() and tests for them.
1787
1788Version 0.1:
1789
1790First libdwarf functions work.
1791
1792Version 0.0:
1793
1794libelf and parts of libebl are done.
1795