libabigail/NEWS
Dodji Seketeli 1b29391e18 Edit the NEWS file a tiny little bit for 1.0
* NEWS: Cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>
2017-11-08 16:04:18 +01:00

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1.0
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Ben Woodard:
Fix some clang compile problems
Fix more clang build warnings
Chenxiong Qi:
More document for local RPMs comparison
Follow moved packages when download
Read Koji config via Koji API
Warn properly when cannot find peer RPM
Fix wrong variable name
Bug 20380 - Compare two local RPMs
Bug 20087 - Clean cache before or after ABI comparison
Dodji Seketeli:
Forgot to consider libtest33-v{0,1}.so in test-diff-suppr.cc
A suppressed diff node implies suppressing all equivalent nodes too
Make bash completion files non-executable
Allow pretty printing function decls for internal purposes
Setup per-corpus type maps indexed by type names
Implement de-duplication for types and decls at DWARF loading time
Support naming typedef and use them to speed up type canonicalization
Fix pretty representation of array types
Introduce on-the-fly type canonicalization
Very light speed improvements
Add tests/data/test-diff-suppr/test33-report-0.txt to tarball
Rename tests/update-test-read-dwarf-output.py
Fix aborting when reading .foo symbols from a ppc64 binary
Fix template_decl::hash::operator()
Don't early-canonicalize function types when reading abixml
Naming typedefs of classes are not read properly from abixml
make is_anonymous_type work for unions and classes
Misc style cleanup
Make abg-fwd.h use *_sptr typedefs
Handle per translation unit and per corpus types maps
[dwarf-reader] Handle per translation-unit type de-duplication
Update tests/data/test-read-write/test27.xml
Update tests/data/test-diff-pkg/libICE-1.0.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm--libICE-1.0.9-2.el7.x86_64.rpm-report-0.txt
Fix a typo in method name computation
Cleanup ODR-based type canonicalization optimization gating logic
Fix qualified name caching for some types
[dwarf-reader] Don't early canonicalize function types
[abixml writer] Fix comparison of pointer to types
[abixml writer] Make sure all function types are emitted
Update tests/data/test-diff-dwarf-abixml/test0-pr19026-libvtkIOSQL-6.1.so.1.abi
Update tests/data/test-read-dwarf/*.abi files
Avoid unnecessary updates to type lookup maps
Speedup set_member_is_static
Misc comments and apidoc fixes
Misc style fixes
[apidoc] Allow brief description at the top of class description pages
Update copyright year on a bunch of files
Adjust some reference outputs of the test-read-dwarf test harness
Better de-duplicate classes, unions, enums in non-odr contexts
Add debug routines to dump locations to a stream
Support Linux Kernel binaries
Support Linux Kernel ABI whitelist files
Remove unused functions from abg-ir.cc
Update copyright notice for abg-fwd.h, abg-ir.h and test-abidiff.cc
Fix performance regression while analyzing libjvm.so
Add missing deep comparison operators for {function, method}_decl_sptr
Speed up pretty representing (function) types
Handle several virtual member functions having the same vtable offset
[dwarf reader] Fix pretty printing static methods from DWARF
[dwarf reader] Do not over de-duplicate function *definitions*
[dwarf reader] Allow updating and de-duplicating member functions
[dwarf reader] properly separate function decls and types in lookup
[dwarf reader] Don't abort when trying to canonicalize a non-type
[comparison engine] Don't crash when the context is null
Support virtual member functions with vtable offset not yet set
Fix some include logic in abg-suppression.cc
Fix suppression category propagation in diff node graph
Add --harmless option to abipkgdiff
Fix test-diff-pkg after commit 2dcc606
Make abidw --headers-dir work with the --out-file option
Fix help string for --header-dirs
Adjust reference output of test-annotate
Fix indentation in src/abg-writer.cc
Misc style fixes
Fix silent failure of tests/runtestfedabipkgdiff.py
Add missing new line to an error message of runtestfedabipkgdiff.py
Add missing tests input files to distribution files
fedabipkgdiff refuses to compare packages with the same release number
Fix typo in help string of abipkgdiff
Several fixes and enhancements to abigail::workers
Add a "make check-valgrind-helgrind-recursive" target
Do not ignore valgrind checks returning an error
Make abipkgdiff.cc use the abigail::workers interface
Display the command that failed the runtestfedabipkgdiff.py test
Move test-read-dwarf.cc to abigail::workers
Make the helgrind suppressions less specific
Silence Helgrind reports about exception stack unwinding
More Helgrind suppressions
Make Helgrind suppressions less specific to libgcc_s version
Fix virtual members sorting to unbreak the build on EL6
Consider file path when sorting virtual member functions
Fix data race on worker::queue::priv::bring_workers_down
Shut down a helgrind false positive in the "system" libc call
Launch fedabipkgdiff tests first
Fix some random deadlock while running fedabipkgidiff in tests
Fix a race condition in queue::priv::do_bring_workers_down
Fix buffer overrun in 'equals' function for arrays
Fix array subranges (wrongly) having the same lower bound
Ensure build_qualified_type can return non-qualified types
Remove useless overloads of is_type
Invalidate function and variable ID cache when invoking ::set_symbol
Rename fn_parm_diff::get_type_diff into fn_parm_diff::type_diff
Don't consider changes to basic types as being redundant
Misc cleanups in abg-writer.cc
Update the description of what abipkgdiff does
Speedup comparison of decl-only classes
Speed up access to the definition of a class declaration-only type
Avoid building DIE -> parent DIE map when analyzing a C binary
Do not forget to erase temporary directories in abipkgdiff
Avoid comparing kernel.img file from the grub2 package
Fix some typos in abidiff.cc
Create a Corpus Group API extension
Initial support to lookup types per location
Support loading and comparing two kernel trees
Avoid loading a translation unit twice from abixml
Make abipkgdiff compare two kernel packages
Make abidw support the --kmi-whitelist option
Introduce the --kmi-whitelist option to abidiff
Update the reference output of regression tests after kabidiff work
Rename write_corpus_to_native_xml into write_corpus
Avoid emitting duplicated decls in abixml
Avoid emitting some empty translation units to abixml
Fix indentation glitch before the </abi-corpus> tag in abixml
Adjust test reference outputs after changes in abg-writer.cc
Initial support of the serialization of the KMI of a Linux Kernel Tree
Initial support of de-serializing the KMI of a Linux Kernel Tree
Speedup access to unreferenced symbols when loading corpus_group
Avoid de-duplicating different C types that have identical name
Allow selective resolution of class declaration
Speedup DIE representation computing esp function signature in C
Do not report about voffset when it's not set in debug info
Fix innacurate test condition when reading an enum type from abixml
Cache function type name computation results
Add --vmlinux{1,2} option to abidw and kmidiff
Allow re-using the ELF/DWARF read_context when loading a corpus group
Add documentation for the kmidiff tool
Allow selective resolution of class declaration
Do not report about voffset when it's not set in debug info
Filter top cv qualifier changes on function parameter types
Support ELF symbol visibility property
Symbols with the same zero value are not aliases
Fix doc glitch in abidiff.rst
Misc style fixes
Don't add empty translation unit to corpus
Better handle decl-only classes being different from their definition
Fix a typo when reporting size change wrt a decl-only class
Fix typo in comments
speed up class type lookup in a corpus
Replace --lkaw with -w and --lkaw-pkg with --wp
Add missing space in abipkgdiff error message
Use shorter lines in abipkgdiff.cc
Fix support of the --wp option of abipkgdiff
Support up to two --wp options for abipkgdiff
Avoid crashing when the elf file could not be read
Fix some make distcheck failures
Misc style fixes
Finer detection of local changes of var_decl type
Avoid adding the same data member twice in the DWARF reader
Don't crash on classes that differ in their virtual member fn count
22160 - Annotate state flag unitialized in abidw
Add missing newlines to kmidiff's usage strings
Renamed offset_offset_map type name into offset_offset_map_type
Remove redundant (useless) typedef declaration
Use an unordered map for canonical DIE offsets
[abixml writer] Store pointers to emitted types rather than type-ids
[abixml writer] Use an unordered set when appropriate
Initialize naked canonical type
Misc style fixes in abg-writer.cc
Add missing comment to type declaration
Update copyright year to tools/abidiff.cc
Allow several kinds of reports to be emitted
Initial implementation of a --leaf-changes-only option to abidiff
Add a --leaf-changes-only option to abipkgdiff
Add --full-impact option to kmidiff
Add --impacted-changes option to kmidiff
Cleanup a switch-case logic to avoid a GCC 7.2.1 warning
Fix a indentation warning from GCC 7.2.1
Handle exceptions when global_config is not yet set in fedabipkgdiff
Add a --suppressions option to fedabipkgdiff
Remove useless vertical space from src/abg-writer.cc
Allow setting options to instances of xml_writer::write_context
Wire the --no-show-locs option to abidw
Bug 20670 - abipkgdiff aborts if $XDG_CACHE_HOME does not exist
Bug 20887 - Show relative change of offsets
Bug 20927 - Segfault when $HOME is not set
Bug 21058 - abipkgdiff wrongly drops non-public types
Bug 20476 - Compare virtual member functions when comparing classes
Bug 21228 - Handle cloning union member functions
Bug 21296 - Reporting diff of const ref against non-const ref aborts
Bug 21567 - Fedabipkgdiff matches build distro names too tightly
Bug 21627 - Libabigail doesn't consider translation unit compile dir
Bug 21629 - equivalent DIEs must be of the same DIE source
Bug 21630 - A this pointer DIE can be const
Bug 21631 - Forgot a "break" statement in stv_to_elf_symbol_visibility
Bug 21153 - abipkgdiff reports undetermined interface subtype changes
Bug 21644 - abipkgdiff does not emit diagnostics about comparison errors
Bug 21730 - Make abipkgdiff compare Linux Kernel packages as expected
Bug 22015 - Failing to return global scope of a DIE in certain cases
Bug 22122 - Fail to represent 'const array'
Bug 22190 - crash in read_context::get_or_compute_canonical_die
Mark Wielaard:
Declare eval_last_constant_dwarf_sub_expr with [u]int64_t not [s]size_t.
readdir_r() is deprecated, use readdir().
Fix -Wmisleading-indentation warning in abg-leaf-reporter.cc.
Bug 22075 - data_member_diff_comp forgets data members names
Ondrej Oprala:
Fix a few remarks made by cppcheck
abipkgdiff doesn't mention --no-default-suppression in help
Check --enable-rpm dependencies more rigorously
Properly report missing files for abipkgdiff
Fix comparison used instead of an assignment
Clean up scripts/*
Fix cppcheck error: "Same iterator is used with different containers"
cppcheck: mitigate performance warnings
Bug 19272 - abipkgdiff doesn't report arch change
Bug 18754 - Add the "--no-added-syms" option to abidiff
Bug 20970 - Add a --annotate option to abidw
Sinny Kumari:
Add --self-compare option in fedabipkgdiff
Check if return_codes list is empty in fedabipkgdiff
Slava Barinov:
Fix types in header to meet sources
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