CHANGES

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