Re: [DynInst_API:] Dyninst 9.3 release (lots of good new stuff)

[Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yay, new release!  Time to start using it in earnest. :)

Is there a corresponding testsuite source package?  At least, 9.2 had
this on the GitHub release page.

On 12/22/2016 02:01 PM, Barton Miller wrote:
>    ================================
>      ANNOUNCEMENT: Release 9.3 of
>               Dyninst
>               ParseAPI
>               SymtabAPI
>               InstructionAPI
>               StackwalkerAPI
>               ProcControl
>               PatchAPI
>               DynC_API
>    ================================
> 
> We are pleased to announce a new release of Dyninst and its component
> tool kits. This release includes some major new features (e.g., more
> ARM/64 support, Intel KNL support) and major improvement in our manuals.
> 
> In addition, we've made a lot of code analysis improvement, performance
> improvements, internal code clean ups, and bug fixes.
> 
> NEW FEATURES:
> 
> - First official release of ParseAPI for ARMv8
> 
> - First release of cross-architecture binary analysis capabilities (parsing
>   of ARM binaries on x86 and vice versa, for example). PowerPC parsing still
>   requires compile-time selection of endianness; a fix for this is coming in
>   9.3.1. This is a significant step in our long road to making Dyninst's
>   host and target platforms fully independent from each other.
> 
> - Dyninst can now safely relocate and instrument code containing C++
>   exceptions.
> 
> - Documented various ProcControl and Stackwalker tracking/tracking control
>   interfaces.
> 
> - Read access to Symtab and ParseAPI data structures should now be thread-
>   safe, provided that you force eager creation of those data structures.
>   If there exist data structures that cannot be eagerly created and are
>   thus thread-unsafe for your use case, please let us know.
> 
> - Automatic detection of Dyninst runtime library location (currently
>   Unix-ish only, Windows support to follow in 9.3.1).
> 
> - Cotire added to speed up build. If building with GCC, this requires
>   version >= 4.5.0; for all compilers, this requires CMake >= 2.8.12.
> 
> - Improvements to stack analysis on x86
> 
> BUG FIXES
> 
> - Fixed segfault when a process is attached without specifying executable
>   name
> 
> - Fixed crash in liveness
> 
> - Fixed assert when running stack modifications on SPEC
> 
> - Fixed multiple jump table parsing issues
> 
> - Fixed `findMain` analysis for stripped binaries
> 
> - Assorted fixes in line information handling
> 
> - Assorted fixes for race conditions in ProcControl
> 
> - Fixed cases where Dyninst heaps were not allocated sufficiently close to
>   the code being relocated into them
> 
> - Ensured stack modification code is only built on supported platforms
>   (x86/Linux for now)
> 
> IMPORTANT NOTE
> 
> - Dyninst no longer supports `libelf.so.0` (non-elfutils version); it may
>   work for your use case but it is deprecated and will become unsupported
>   in a future release. We intend to migrate fully to the elfutils stack
>   for elf/dwarf infrastructure support.
> 
> WHERE TO GET IT -- NEW THIS RELEASE ...
> 
> You can find all the details of this release, including source code,
> documentation, and the test suite, at:
>   https://github.com/dyninst/dyninst/releases/tag/v9.3.0
> 
> Older dyninst releases may be found by browsing:
>   https://github.com/dyninst/dyninst/releases
> 
> As usual, www.paradyn.org and www.dyninst.org will be updated with
> appropriate pointers, but github is now the primary location for
> releases.
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