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   1 Changelog
   2 =========
   3
   4 + Version 0.30 (2023.09.06)
   5
   6   - Python 2 support officially dropped (#415)
   7   - Optimization: cache instantiation of DWARF structs (#435)
   8   - DWARFv5 CU headers (#442)
   9   - Bug fix in attribute reporting for DWA_FORM_indirect (#475)
  10   - Support for RISC-V attributes (#459)
  11   - Readelf used for testing upgraded to 2.41 (#489)
  12   - Support for MIPS64 object files (#495)
  13   - LoongArch support (#470, #483)
  14
  15 + Version 0.29 (2022.08.09)
  16
  17   - Lots of improvements to DWARFv5 support (#400, #411, #418, #419, #429 and
  18     additional PRs)
  19   - Support for compressed relocation sections (#395)
  20   - Support for supplementary object files - debug fission (#426)
  21   - Improved support for corrupted ELF headers (#434)
  22   - Readelf used for testing upgraded to 2.38 (#420)
  23   - Add auto-testing vs. llvm-dwarfdump (#428)
  24
  25 + Version 0.28 (2022.02.03)
  26
  27   - Added a method for returning the index of a section by name (#331)
  28   - Allow filtering by section types in iter_sections (#345)
  29   - Support Android compressed rel/rela sections (#357)
  30   - Initial support for PPC64LE (#360)
  31   - Initial DWARF v5 support (#363 with several follow-ups)
  32   - Fixed parsing for structures containing uids or gids in core
  33     dumps (#354)
  34   - Allow filtering by segment types in iter_segments (#375)
  35   - Add support for .note.gnu.property (#386)
  36   - Update readelf tests to work with more recent version of
  37     readelf (#387)
  38   - Add support for note GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_AND (#388)
  39
  40 + Version 0.27 (2020.10.27)
  41
  42   - Print addend wfor RELA relocations without symbol (#292)
  43   - Implement symbol lookup for {GNU,}HashSection (#290)
  44   - Major rewrite of expression parsing
  45   - Cashed random access to CUs and DIEs (#264)
  46   - GNU expressions (#303)
  47   - Support parsing LSDA pointers from FDEs (#308)
  48   - Add support for DWA_OP_GNU_push_tls_address in expressions (#315)
  49   - Some initial support for AArch64 little-endian (#318)
  50   - Support for ELF files with a large number of sections (#333)
  51   - Some minimal support for DWARFv1 (#335)
  52   - Many small bug fixes; see git log.
  53
  54 + Version 0.26 (2019.12.05)
  55
  56   - Call relocation for ARM v3 (#194)
  57   - More complete architecture coverage for ENUM_E_MACHINE (#206)
  58   - Support for .debug_pubtypes and .debug_pubnames sections (#208)
  59   - Support for DWARF v4 location lists (#214)
  60   - Decode strings in dynamic string tables (#217)
  61   - Improve symbol table handling in dynamic segments (#219)
  62   - Improved handling of location information (#225)
  63   - Avoid deprecation warnings in Python 3.7+
  64   - Add DWARF v5 OPs (#240)
  65   - Handle many new translation forms and constants
  66   - Lazy DIE parsing to speed up partial parsing of DWARF info (#249)
  67
  68 + Version 0.25 (2018.09.01)
  69
  70   - Make parsing of SH_TYPE and PT_TYPE fields dependent on the machine
  71     (e_machine header field), making it possible to support conflicting type
  72     enums between different machines (#71 and #121).
  73   - Add parsing and readelf dumping for .eh_frame (#155)
  74   - Support compressed sections (#152)
  75   - Better support for parsing core dumps (#147)
  76   - More comprehensive handling of ARM relocations (#121)
  77   - Convert all ascii encoding to utf-8 encoding (#182)
  78   - Don't attempt to hex/string dump SHT_NOBITS sections in readelf (#119).
  79   - Test with Python 3.6
  80   - Minor bugfixes (#118)
  81   - Cleanup: Use argparse instead of optparse
  82   - Make readelf comparison tests run in parallel using multiprocessing; cuts
  83     testing time 3-5x
  84   - Improvements in MIPS flags handling (#165)
  85
  86 + Version 0.24 (2016.08.04)
  87
  88   - Retrieve symbols by name - get_symbol_by_name (#58).
  89   - Symbol/section names are strings internally now, not bytestrings (this may
  90     affect API usage in Python 3) (#76).
  91   - Added DT_MIPS_* constants to ENUM_D_TAG (#79)
  92   - Made dwarf_decode_address example a bit more useful for command-line
  93     invocation.
  94   - More DWARF v4 support w.r.t decoding function ranges; DW_AT_high_pc value
  95     is now either absolute or relative to DW_AT_low_pc, depending on the class
  96     of the form encoded in the file. Also #89.
  97   - Support for SHT_NOTE sections (#109)
  98   - Support for .debug_aranges section (#108)
  99   - Support for zlib-compressed debug sections (#102)
 100   - Support for DWARF v4 line programs (#82)
 101
 102 + Version 0.23 (2014.11.08)
 103
 104   - Minimal Python 2.x version raised to 2.7
 105   - Basic support for MIPS (contributed by Karl Vogel).
 106   - Support for PT_NOTE segment parsing (contributed by Alex Deymo).
 107   - Support for parsing symbol table in dynamic segment
 108     (contributed by Nam T. Nguyen).
 109
 110 + Version 0.22 (2014.03.30)
 111
 112   - pyelftools repository moved to https://github.com/eliben/pyelftools
 113   - Support for version sections - contributed by Yann Rouillard.
 114   - Better ARM support (including AArch64) - contributed by Dobromir Stefanov.
 115   - Added some initial support for parsing Solaris OpenCSW ELF files
 116     (contributed by Yann Rouillard).
 117   - Added some initial support for DWARF4 (as generated by gcc 4.8)
 118     and DWARF generated by recent versions of Clang (3.3).
 119   - Added the get_full_path utility method to DIEs that have an associated
 120     file name / path (based on pull request #16 by Shaheed Haque).
 121   - Set up Travis CI integration.
 122
 123 + Version 0.21 (2013.04.17)
 124
 125   - Added new example: dwarf_decode_address - decode function name and
 126     file & line information from an address.
 127   - Issue #7: parsing incorrect DWARF was made a bit more forgiving for cases
 128     where serialized DIE trees have extra NULLs at the end.
 129   - Very initial support for ARM ELF files (Matthew Fernandez - pull
 130     request #6).
 131   - Support for dumping the dynamic section (Mike Frysinger - pull
 132     request #7).
 133   - Output of scripts/readelf.py now matches that of binutils 2.23.52.
 134   - Added more machine EM_ values to ENUM_E_TYPE.
 135
 136 + Version 0.20 (2012.01.27)
 137
 138   - Python 3 support
 139   - Fixed some problems with running tests
 140   - Issue #2: made all examples run (and test/run_examples_test.py pass)
 141     on Windows.
 142
 143 + Version 0.10 - Initial public release (2012.01.06)