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   1 Changelog
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   3
   4 + Version 0.30 (2023.09.06)
   5
   6   - Optimization: cache instantiation of DWARF structs (#435)
   7   - DWARFv5 CU headers (#442)
   8   - Bug fix in attribute reporting for DWA_FORM_indirect (#475)
   9   - Support for RISC-V attributes (#459)
  10   - Readelf used for testing upgraded to 2.41 (#489)
  11   - Support for MIPS64 object files (#495)
  12   - LoongArch support (#470, #483)
  13
  14 + Version 0.29 (2022.08.09)
  15
  16   - Lots of improvements to DWARFv5 support (#400, #411, #418, #419, #429 and
  17     additional PRs)
  18   - Support for compressed relocation sections (#395)
  19   - Support for supplementary object files - debug fission (#426)
  20   - Improved support for corrupted ELF headers (#434)
  21   - Readelf used for testing upgraded to 2.38 (#420)
  22   - Add auto-testing vs. llvm-dwarfdump (#428)
  23
  24 + Version 0.28 (2022.02.03)
  25
  26   - Added a method for returning the index of a section by name (#331)
  27   - Allow filtering by section types in iter_sections (#345)
  28   - Support Android compressed rel/rela sections (#357)
  29   - Initial support for PPC64LE (#360)
  30   - Initial DWARF v5 support (#363 with several follow-ups)
  31   - Fixed parsing for structures containing uids or gids in core
  32     dumps (#354)
  33   - Allow filtering by segment types in iter_segments (#375)
  34   - Add support for .note.gnu.property (#386)
  35   - Update readelf tests to work with more recent version of
  36     readelf (#387)
  37   - Add support for note GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_AND (#388)
  38
  39 + Version 0.27 (2020.10.27)
  40
  41   - Print addend wfor RELA relocations without symbol (#292)
  42   - Implement symbol lookup for {GNU,}HashSection (#290)
  43   - Major rewrite of expression parsing
  44   - Cashed random access to CUs and DIEs (#264)
  45   - GNU expressions (#303)
  46   - Support parsing LSDA pointers from FDEs (#308)
  47   - Add support for DWA_OP_GNU_push_tls_address in expressions (#315)
  48   - Some initial support for AArch64 little-endian (#318)
  49   - Support for ELF files with a large number of sections (#333)
  50   - Some minimal support for DWARFv1 (#335)
  51   - Many small bug fixes; see git log.
  52
  53 + Version 0.26 (2019.12.05)
  54
  55   - Call relocation for ARM v3 (#194)
  56   - More complete architecture coverage for ENUM_E_MACHINE (#206)
  57   - Support for .debug_pubtypes and .debug_pubnames sections (#208)
  58   - Support for DWARF v4 location lists (#214)
  59   - Decode strings in dynamic string tables (#217)
  60   - Improve symbol table handling in dynamic segments (#219)
  61   - Improved handling of location information (#225)
  62   - Avoid deprecation warnings in Python 3.7+
  63   - Add DWARF v5 OPs (#240)
  64   - Handle many new translation forms and constants
  65   - Lazy DIE parsing to speed up partial parsing of DWARF info (#249)
  66
  67 + Version 0.25 (2018.09.01)
  68
  69   - Make parsing of SH_TYPE and PT_TYPE fields dependent on the machine
  70     (e_machine header field), making it possible to support conflicting type
  71     enums between different machines (#71 and #121).
  72   - Add parsing and readelf dumping for .eh_frame (#155)
  73   - Support compressed sections (#152)
  74   - Better support for parsing core dumps (#147)
  75   - More comprehensive handling of ARM relocations (#121)
  76   - Convert all ascii encoding to utf-8 encoding (#182)
  77   - Don't attempt to hex/string dump SHT_NOBITS sections in readelf (#119).
  78   - Test with Python 3.6
  79   - Minor bugfixes (#118)
  80   - Cleanup: Use argparse instead of optparse
  81   - Make readelf comparison tests run in parallel using multiprocessing; cuts
  82     testing time 3-5x
  83   - Improvements in MIPS flags handling (#165)
  84
  85 + Version 0.24 (2016.08.04)
  86
  87   - Retrieve symbols by name - get_symbol_by_name (#58).
  88   - Symbol/section names are strings internally now, not bytestrings (this may
  89     affect API usage in Python 3) (#76).
  90   - Added DT_MIPS_* constants to ENUM_D_TAG (#79)
  91   - Made dwarf_decode_address example a bit more useful for command-line
  92     invocation.
  93   - More DWARF v4 support w.r.t decoding function ranges; DW_AT_high_pc value
  94     is now either absolute or relative to DW_AT_low_pc, depending on the class
  95     of the form encoded in the file. Also #89.
  96   - Support for SHT_NOTE sections (#109)
  97   - Support for .debug_aranges section (#108)
  98   - Support for zlib-compressed debug sections (#102)
  99   - Support for DWARF v4 line programs (#82)
 100
 101 + Version 0.23 (2014.11.08)
 102
 103   - Minimal Python 2.x version raised to 2.7
 104   - Basic support for MIPS (contributed by Karl Vogel).
 105   - Support for PT_NOTE segment parsing (contributed by Alex Deymo).
 106   - Support for parsing symbol table in dynamic segment
 107     (contributed by Nam T. Nguyen).
 108
 109 + Version 0.22 (2014.03.30)
 110
 111   - pyelftools repository moved to https://github.com/eliben/pyelftools
 112   - Support for version sections - contributed by Yann Rouillard.
 113   - Better ARM support (including AArch64) - contributed by Dobromir Stefanov.
 114   - Added some initial support for parsing Solaris OpenCSW ELF files
 115     (contributed by Yann Rouillard).
 116   - Added some initial support for DWARF4 (as generated by gcc 4.8)
 117     and DWARF generated by recent versions of Clang (3.3).
 118   - Added the get_full_path utility method to DIEs that have an associated
 119     file name / path (based on pull request #16 by Shaheed Haque).
 120   - Set up Travis CI integration.
 121
 122 + Version 0.21 (2013.04.17)
 123
 124   - Added new example: dwarf_decode_address - decode function name and
 125     file & line information from an address.
 126   - Issue #7: parsing incorrect DWARF was made a bit more forgiving for cases
 127     where serialized DIE trees have extra NULLs at the end.
 128   - Very initial support for ARM ELF files (Matthew Fernandez - pull
 129     request #6).
 130   - Support for dumping the dynamic section (Mike Frysinger - pull
 131     request #7).
 132   - Output of scripts/readelf.py now matches that of binutils 2.23.52.
 133   - Added more machine EM_ values to ENUM_E_TYPE.
 134
 135 + Version 0.20 (2012.01.27)
 136
 137   - Python 3 support
 138   - Fixed some problems with running tests
 139   - Issue #2: made all examples run (and test/run_examples_test.py pass)
 140     on Windows.
 141
 142 + Version 0.10 - Initial public release (2012.01.06)