libkdumpfile-0.5.5

WARNING: This is the last release which includes the legacy Python bindings! Switch to pykdumpfile now!

Release highlights:

• Include the kdumpid utility.
• Incompatible API changes:
  • kdump_get_typed_attr(): parameters and type mismatch behaviour
  • kdump_attr_ref_get(): result must be discarded
• Support f\lattened ELF dump files.
• Support partially rearranged makedumpfile split files.
• Parse QEMU CPU state ELF notes.
• Use kernel page tables when initializing X86-64 Linux with PTI from CR3 register value.
• Fix direct mapping if LDT PTI remapping is used in Linux on X86-64.
• Minor cache improvements and a NULL-pointer dereference fix.
• Fix test suite for 32-bit architectures.

libkdumpfile-0.5.4

Release highlights:

• Full support for 64-bit RISC-V.
• Improved error messages.

libkdumpfile-0.5.3

Release highlights:

• Support flattened KDUMP format.

libkdumpfile-0.5.2

Release highlights:

• Support for 32-bit Arm.
• Parsing of ERASEINFO.

libkdumpfile-0.5.1

Release highlights:

• Bitmap of all RAM in the memory.pagemap attribute.
• Enhance the API with conversions between numeric and string PTE format: addrxlat_pte_format, addrxlat_pte_format_name.
• Improve compatibility (mawk, Python 3.12).

libkdumpfile-0.5.0

Release highlights:

• Support SADUMP file format.
• Zstandard compression algorithm.
• AArch64 52-bit VA.
• Incompatible changes to the callback API and attribute layout.

WARNING: You may have to adjust your source code to update to this version!

libkdumpfile-0.4.1

Release highlights:

• Support Linux on AArch64
• Support for x86 Secure Memory Encryption
• Clean up vmcoreinfo string API
• Expose mmap and read cache statistics
• Python bindings installation using distutil

libkdumpfile-0.4.0

Release highlights:

• 5-level paging for x86-64
• bitmap and blob attributes
• kASLR support for Linux kernels
• address translation speed-ups
• many bugfixes

libkdumpfile-0.3.0

WARNING: The API has been completely redesigned, breaking binary and source-code compatibility again.

Highlights:

• Address translation routines moved into libaddrxlat (can be used without a dump file).
• Python bindings.
• Comprehensive test suite for libaddrxlat.
• Caching.
• …and more!

libkdumpfile-0.2.0

WARNING: This release breaks binary and source-code compatibility with previous releases. Read NEWS for more details.

Highlights:

• Much improved handling of Xen files, including hypervisor view.
• Fixes and optimizations for LKCD file format.
• LKCD unit tests.

Many commits are related to LKCD. That's not because LKCD is in wide use, but because it is a basic format (easy to create artificially) and so it was used to design unit tests. All new features and bug fixes should be accompanied by a unit test from now on. It just so happened that many deficiencies were discovered in the LKCD implementation while designing the test suite.