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Dodji Seketeli 14d48647a4 Update NEWS and ChangeLog for 1.0.rc6
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Signed-off-by: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>
2016-11-24 15:28:29 +01:00

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1.0.rc6
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Chenxiong Qi:
Update bash completion for fedabipkgdiff
Add fedabipkgdiff bash completion to dist
Add --abipkgdiff option in manual and bash completion
Make fedabipkgdiff consistent with Libabigail's other tests
Dodji Seketeli:
Bug 20332 - too many ...'s counted as parameters
Bug 20194 - Fail to recognize void type represented by DW_TAG_base_type
Bug 20199 - Consider integral type synonyms as being equal
Bug 20420 - Wrong ODR-based type comparison optimization on qualified type
Bug 20534 - abipkgdiff wrongly displays the name of added binary files
Bug 20740 - Broken check for dwarf_getalt in configure.ac
Add a new overload for is_type_decl
Better recognize qualified void type
Fix spurious type size change report for distinct_diff
Prepare support for symbol visibility control
Add ABG_ASSERT_NOT_REACHED macro
Cleanup is_class and is_compatible_with_class_type
Generalize DIE source concept in DWARF reader
Support DW_TAG_type_unit
Control symbols exported from libabigail.so
Don't walk diff trees indefinitely when applying suppressions
Fix misleading indentation issues
Do not emit empty namespaces in abixml
Add new helper functions
Pimplify the abigail::ir::scope_decl type
Drop suppressed ABI artifacts from the IR
Add default suppression specification for webkitgtk
Add default suppression specifications for C++ binaries
Better handle fedabipkgdiff dependencies detection
Update reference output of runtestreaddwarf
Define a new interned_string_set_type typedef
Prevent infinite loops while comparing two function_type
Apply ODR-based type comparison optimization to function types
Cleanup class_decl inifite comparison detection
Cleanup functions to detect infinite comparison of class_decl
Cleanup namespace importing in abg-interned-str.h
Canonicalize function types when reading from DWARF
Fix abigail::ir::get_type_scope()
Cleanup some entry points in abg-fwd.h
Cleanup void and variadic parameter type interfaces
Consider a method_decl as always being a member decl
Factorize out parsing of integral types
Factorize out string representation of array_type_def::subrange_type
Avoid stripping typedefs too much
Apply harmless and harmful filters in one pass
Rename config::property_vector into config::properties_type
Support empty properties in INI files
Support union types
Better diagnostics when wget is missing
Lexicographically sort union data members in change reports
Support reading data member offset from DW_AT_bit_offset
Fix indentation in abg-writer.cc
Fix offset type mismatch
Fix a compiler warning issued by GCC 6.2.1
Avoid using size_t to get DWARF data
Matthias Klose:
Fix typo in abipkgdiff
1.0.rc5
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Chenxiong Qi:
Bug 19428 - New fedabipkgdiff utility
Bug 20085 - Add --dso-only option to fedabipkgdiff
Bug 20135 - Make fedabipkgdiff compare ABIs using devel packages
Add integration tests for fedabipkgdiff
Fix package NVR comparison in fedabipkgdiff
Use consistent string format in fedabipkgdiff
Fix pep8 error in fedabipkgdiff
Dodji Seketeli:
Bug 19964 - Cannot load function aliases on ppc64
Bug 20015 - support file_name_not_regexp and soname_not_regexp in suppr specs
Bug 20180 - Support system-wide suppression specifications
Bug 19967 - System-level suppressions for glibc
Fix python interpreter path for el6
Add doc, info, man and html-doc targets to top-level Makefile
Update documentation to require doxygen and python-sphinx for building
Make API documentation of thread pools visible
Show SONAME of removed/added libraries in abipkgdiff
Fix indentation in concepts manual
Fix typo in concept manual
Doc not show classes' inherited members in apidoc
Fix mention of tool's name in abidiff error message
Add several shortcuts to options for abicompat
Fix indentation for abidiff manual
Split suppression engine off of abg-comparison.{cc,h}
Implement a [suppress_file] suppression directive
Remove config.h.in from the repository
Do not run fedabipkgdiff tests if --enable-fedabipkgdiff is turned off
Update the COMMIT-LOG-GUIDELINES file
Update the CONTRIBUTING file
Support running "make check-valgrind"
Fix a read passed-the-end in abg-dwarf-reader.cc
Plug leak of diff_context_sptr after calling compute_diff
Plug leak of regex_t in suppression engine
Remove circular ref from class_decl::priv::definition_of_declaration
Plug leak of shared private data of class_diff type
Plug leak of debug info handles
Fix invocation of delete operator in test-read-dwarf.cc
Speedup diff node child insertion
Plug leak of diffs of member variables of class type
Avoid unnecessary computation of type name in suppression evaluation
Minimize number of string::length calculation
Light optimizations by passing reference to smart pointers around
Optimize out some shared_ptr use
Add missing API doc strings
Enhance API doc for diff_context::add_diff
Fix bash completion configure status
Fix white space in abg-comparison.cc
Fix whitespaces in autotools files
Document how to handle regression tests in CONTRIBUTING
Fix the number of removed functions in change report
Make abi{pkg}diff filter out changes about private types
Add a 'check-valgrind' target to the top-most Makefile.am
Add test data for tests/runtestfedabipkgdiff.py
Fix some wording in the Libabigail overview manual page
Update reference to tools in libabigail-concepts manual
Fix suppr spec wording in abipkgdiff manual
Better diagnostics when abipkgdiff has an extra argument
Add --abipkgdiff option to fedabipkgdiff
Don't require all version symbol sections to present
Escape all characters when reading a string in ini files
Improve python modules detection
Cleanup function_decl::parameter::get_pretty_representation
Misc white space and comment cleanups
Use ODR-based optimization on C/C++ translation unit only
Misc cleanup in abg-reader.cc
Sinny Kumari:
Bug 19961 - Distinguish between PI executable and shared library
Change parent directory for keeping extracted packages in abipkgdiff
1.0.rc4
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Dodji Seketeli:
Bug 19844 - Cannot try to canonicalize a type that is being constructed
Bug 19846 - variable decl associated with the wrong debug info section
Bug 19867 - abipkgdiff skips symbolic links
Bug 19885 - Cannot associate a function DIE to a symbol on powerpc64
Ease use of soname_regexp/file_name_regexp in suppr specs
More docs about ABIDIFF_ABI_INCOMPATIBLE_CHANGE
Update copyright dates for the manuals
Fix typos on the web page
Fix typos in the manual of abidiff
Fix typos in the suppression specifications manual
Fix a typo in include/abg-tools-utils.h
Fix typos in comments in src/abg-dwarf-reader.cc
Fix comments in tests/test-diff-pkg.cc
Fix logs in abipkgdiff and add some more
Roland McGrath:
Fix typo in configure --enable-deb help text
1.0.rc3
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Dodji Seketeli:
Upate build instructions on the website
Bug 19138 - Failure to relate variables address from DWARF and ELF
Include missing <algorithm> to abg-dwarf-reader.cc
Make enum values take 64 bits on all platforms
Use worker threads pattern to speed up some tests
Sort the tests run in tests/ by running the slowest ones first
Bug 19434 - invalid character in attribute value
Bug 19141 - Libabigail doesn't support common ELF symbols
Pass parm of elf_symbol::add_alias by reference
Bug 19204 - libabigail aborts on DWARF referencing non-existing DIE
Comparing aliases of the same symbol must be done by pointer
Do not crash when looking up a type from global scope
Fix abicompat's handling of library types not used by the application
Fix synthesizing of pointer type
Fix synthesizing of reference type
Bug 19596 - Incorrect exit status for incompatible ABI change
Use proper WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS macros to get exit code
Bug 19604 - abidiff --suppressions doesn't complain about invalid file name
Make abipkgdiff return correct exit code on usage error
Make abipkgdiff check for the presence of suppression spec files
Talk about mandatory properties in suppress_* directives
Add a comment about libabigail needing elfutils 0.159 at least.
Bug 19606 - Need better error message for invalid options
Prefix abidiff error message with the 'abidiff' program name
Emit more informational messages on unrecognized options
Bug 19619 - failing to suppress added aliased function reports for C++
Add function lookup by linkage name to libabigail::corpus
Bug 19638 - DWARF reader fails to link clone function to its declaration
Add --verbose option to abidiff
Bug 19658 - Type canonicalization slow for the 2nd binary loaded
Add missing inequality operators for ABI artifacts
Fix crash when handling templates with empty patterns
Implement string interning for Libabigail
Some small speed optimizations
Bug 19706 - Core dump from abidiff with suppression
Update mentions to the build dependencies in the doc
Make libabigail link with pthread
Add --verbose to abidw
Fixup virtual member functions with linkage and no underlying symbol
Bug 19596 - Suppressed removed symbol changes still considered incompatible
Bug 19778 - diff_has_ancestor_filtered_out() loops forever
Bug 19780 - abipkgdiff doesn't support parallel execution
Fix reference to test file in Makefile.am
Walk function_type_diff tree in a deterministic way
Mark Wielaard:
Fix GCC6 -Wmisleading-indentation warnings.
Make make more silent.
Remove defined but not used functions pointed out by GCC6.
Ondrej Oprala:
Escape the value of the filepath attribute.
1.0.rc2
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Dodji Seketeli:
Fix regression on the support for alternate debug info files
Lexicographically sort added/removed base classes in change report
1.0.rc1
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Dodji Seketeli:
Bug 19336 - Better handle redundantly qualified reference types
Bug 19126 - abidw segv on a dwz compressed version of r300_dri.so
Bug 19355 - Libabigail slow on r300_dri.so
Do not use designated initializers in abipkgdiff.cc
Read enum values in the size_t and write them in ssize_t
Do not abort when there is no binary to compare in a package
Add missing new line to abidiff help message
Constify is_qualified_type()
Find more spots where to discriminate internal and non-internal names
Do not forget to peel qualified type off when peeling types
Fix comparison in qualified_type_diff::has_changes
Avoid try/catch code paths when that is possible
Fix internal name for pointers, typedefs and arrays
Filter out harmless diagnostics glitches due to some ODR violation
[PERF] Pass a bunch of perf-sensitive smart pointers by reference
[PERF] Turn some pimpl pointers into naked pointers
[PERF] Access naked pointers for canonical types and function types
[PERF] Speedup comparing declaration-only class_decls
Speed up class_decl::find_base_class
Avoid adding the same base class twice
Support two different variables having the same underlying symbol
Add a NEWS file
Fix abidw -v
Ondrej Oprala:
Add bash-completion scripts for the libabigail tools
Abidiff: Remove doubled line in help.
Fix a function doc
Support printing the file, line and column information in change reports