Update NEWS file for 1.7

* NEWS: update for 1.7

Signed-off-by: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>
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1.7
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Dodji Seketeli:
Internal pretty repr of union cannot be flat representation
Fix anonymous union constructed under the wrong context
Propagate private type diff category through refs/qualified type diffs
Add test for the fix for PR24410
Fix "Add test for the fix for PR24410"
Bug 24430 - Fold away const for array types
Bug 24431 - ELF reader can't interpret ksymtab with Kernel 4.19+
Bug 24431 - ELF reader fails to determine __ksymtab format
Enable building with AddressSanitizer activated
Fix a memory leak in real_path
Delay canonicalization for array and qualified types
abg-tools-utils.cc: Plug a leak in find_file_under_dir
Add --enable-{asan,ubsan} configure options
Canonicalize types non tied to any DWARF DIE
Don't try to de-duplicate all anonymous struct DIEs
Use canonical types hash maps for type IDs in abixml writer
Handle several member anonymous types of the same kind
Better handle several anonymous types of the same kind
Fix logic of get_binary_load_address
Handle Linux kernel binaries with no __ksymtab section
Bug 24560 - Assertion failure on an abixml with an anonymous type
Bug 24552 - abidiff fails comparing a corpus against a corpus group
Take anonymous scopes into account when comparing decls
[dwarf-reader] const-ify Dwarf_Die* use in many places
[dwarf-reader] Re-use function types inside a given TU
[dwarf-reader] Better use of linkage name for fn decl de-duplication
[dwarf-reader] Optimize speed of compare_as_decl_dies
[dwarf-reader] Fix indentation in compare_dies_string_attribute_value
Fully account for anonymous-ness of scopes when comparing decl names
Bug 24731 - Wrongly reporting union members order change
Make abidiff --harmless show harmless changes in unions
[dwarf-reader] Constify the first parameter of maybe_canonicalize_type
[dwarf-reader] Make sure to canonicalize anonymous types
Implement a poor-man's RTTI for performance
[xml-writter] Avoid using RTTI when dynamically hashing types
[xml-writter] Speedup function_type::get_cached_name
[xml-writer] Remove a useless kludge
Misc indent cleanup
Implement fast comparison of Linux Kernel types when applicable
[ir] Fix indentation and add comments
Add timing to the verbose logs of abidw
Bug 24787 - Filter out enum changes into compatible integer types
Serialize canonical types to avoid testing if types have been emitted
Detect the presence of R_AARCH64_{ABS64, PREL32} macros
Bug 25007 - Don't use section-relative symbol values on ET_REL binaries
Remove the elf_symbol::get_value property
Guard testing v4.19+ AARCH64 kernel module loading for EL6 support
Fix reading of relocation sections when endianness mismatches
[has_type_change] Better detect type size changes
Better propagation of suppressed-ness to function types
Support the "name_not_regexp" property in the [suppress_type] section
PR25042 - Support string form DW_FORM_strx{1,4} from DWARF 5
Fix a typo in a comment of abg-dwar-reader.cc
Fix thinkos in DW_FORM_strx detection in configure.ac
PR25058 - Support decl DIEs referring to symbols using DW_AT_ranges
PR25058 - Better support fn DIEs referring to symbols using DW_AT_ranges
[abg-comparison.cc] Fix comments typo
Support symbol_name_not_regexp in [suppress_{function, variable}]
Bug 25095 - Apply symbol white lists to ELF symbols
Bug 25128 - Leaf diff reporter shouldn't compare decl-only classes
Bug 25128 - Handle decl-only classes that differ only in size
Small style fix in abg-default-reporter.cc
Bug 24690 - Support comparing non-reachable types of a binary
Misc typo fixes
Bug 25409 - Fix reading layout-offset-in-bits attribute of data-member
suppression: Better handle soname/filename properties evaluation
abixml-reader: Support SONAME related properties on file suppression
tools-utils: Drop redefinition of fopen when BAD_FTS is defined
gen-changelog.py: Update the script for python3
Giuliano Procida:
Remove redundant mention of libtool in COMPILING documentation.
Fix typo in COMPILING.
Don't ignore options when diffing translation units (.bi files).
Sort kernel module object files before processing them.
Fix stray comma in leaf-changes-only mode.
Jessica Yu:
Support pre and post v4.19 ksymtabs for Linux kernel modules
Mark Wielaard:
Fix an undefined behaviour in has_var_type_cv_qual_change
Don't try to read a build_id as string in find_alt_debug_info_link.
Matthias Maennich:
dwarf-reader: fix undefined behaviour in get_binary_load_address
Add .clang-format approximation
abg-writer: Simplify 'annotate' propagation
Add deprecation facilities
abg-writer: Refactor write_translation_unit API
abg-writer: Refactor write_corpus API
abg-writer: Refactor write_corpus_group API
write_context: allow mutating the ostream used
abidw: Consolidate setting options
Make write_architecture and write_corpus_path flags in the write_context
abidw: add option to omit the compilation directory
abidw: add option to only emit file names (--short-locs)
abg-writer: drop deprecated API
.gitignore: Add libabigail-?.* *.orig files
.clang-format: Add more options for match existing coding style
abg-reporter.h: add missing includes / using declarations
Drop requirement to compile with GNU extensions
Update tests/.gitignore to ignore runtesttoolsutils
Add compatibility layer for C++11 mode
abg-tools-utils: add missing header include guards
Ensure a consistent C++ standard use
abg-dwarf-reader: detect kernel modules without exports as such
dwarf-reader: read_corpus_from_elf: unconditionally load elf properties
kmidiff: fix help message
dwarf-reader: refactor try_reading_first_ksymtab_entry_using{pre,}_v4_19_format
dwarf-reader: add support for symbol namespaces in ksymtab entries
abg-dwarf-reader: resolve relocation sections by index
dwarf-reader: relax restriction about relocation sections in try_reading_first_ksymtab_entry
Add (undocumented) support for version suffixes
abidiff/kmidiff: do not default-suppress added symbols
abg-reader: handle empty corpus nodes in xml representation
corpus: is_empty: consider actual translation unit contents
writer: completely skip over empty corpora
KMI Whitelists: Add functionality to make whitelists additive
KMI Whitelists: Drop old whitelist extraction methods
clang-format: Better approximation for binary operators and assignments
dwarf-reader: handle symtab.section_header.sh_entsize == 0
dwarf-reader: handle binaries with missing symtab
Fix / add include guards
abg-fwd: drop duplicate forward declaration for corpus_sptr
Testing: add Catch Unit test framework
Fix some parameter name inconsistencies
abg-comparison: prefer .empty() over implicit bool conversion of .size()
abg-dwarf-reader: zero initialize local Dwarf_Addr values
abg-workers: Rework the worker queue to improve concurrent behaviour
abg-fwd.h: fix mismatched tags for ir_node_visitor
abilint: fix return types bool -> int
abg-reader: clarify boolean use of assignment
diff-utils: point: fix postfix decrement/increment operator
add missing virtual destructors
viz-dot: remove unused members from dot
suppressions: drop unused parameter from type_is_suppressed
ir: drop unused data members from {environment,qualified_name}_setter
distinct_diff: avoid expression with side effects within typeid
dwarf-reader: fix recursion in expr_result::operator&
Update .gitignore files to ignore typical dev side products
dwarf-reader: Fix comments for try_reading_first_ksymtab_entry_using_{pre_,}v4_19_format
dwarf-reader: templatize read_int_from_array_of_bytes
Bug 24431 Read 32bit values when testing for the v4.19 symbol table format
Bug 24431 Treat __ksymtab as int32_t for v4.19+ kernels
1.6
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// For package configuration macros.
#include "config.h"
// In case we don't have a bad fts then we need to include fts.h after
// config.h.
#ifndef BAD_FTS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <fts.h>