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