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2012-07-10 : 1.0
- Development happens now in git, look for changes there
2011-07-28 : 0.9.9.1
- Removed unnecessary zlib detection from configure.ac
2009-08-21 : 0.9.9
- Added support for applying an already unpacked update tree
- Fixed ksplice-create when installed to a prefix other than /usr/local
- Improved stack check completeness for self-restarting syscalls
2009-07-12 : 0.9.8
- Improved error handling in the Ksplice perl utilities
- Updated Ksplice for kernel 2.6.30
- Fixed several bugs in the handling of bugline patches
2009-03-10 : 0.9.7
- Fixed a bug where Ksplice relocations were sometimes written pointing
to the middle of patched sections
- Fixed a Makefile bug where the Ksplice core module was compiled twice
- Renamed or reorganized several data structures in the Ksplice kernel code
- Changed the Ksplice module names from primary/helper to old_code/new_code
2009-01-21 : 0.9.6
- Fixed a Makefile bug that prevented the initial prebuild from succeeding
- Documented the ksplice-create --series, --git, and --build-modules options
- Added support for changing CRCs of exported symbols
- Added pre-post matching of altinstructions and other table sections
- Fixed a build failure due to depmod when using a kbuild output directory
2008-12-19 : 0.9.5
- Added support for building updates from Git commits in ksplice-create
- Prevent reversing Ksplice updates that have been partially cold applied
2008-11-21 : 0.9.4
- Added support for patching kernels built in a separate Kbuild output
directory (O=dir)
- Added additional metadata to the Ksplice update tarballs
- Updated Ksplice for kernel 2.6.28
2008-11-07 : 0.9.3
- Added hooks for calling functions at various points during the update process
- Added support for applying an update only to loaded target modules
- Added support for building updated target modules along with a Ksplice update
- Added run-pre matching of the bug table, exception table, and exported
symbol table
- Improved robustness of the stack check with respect to optimized tail calls
- Fixed several bugs in the run-pre matching disassembly code
- Added patching of rodata sections that did not change in size
- Added patching of bug table entries whose line numbers changed
- Added an experimental API for shadow data structures
2008-10-17 : 0.9.2
- Added run-pre matching of string sections
- Fixed safety_record handling for patch reversals
- Improved performance substantially in both userspace and kernelspace
- Added support for patching kernels whose text is mapped read-only
- Added support for patching compilation units involving markers
- Improved the udis86 disassembler's support for disassembling the kernel
2008-09-26 : 0.9.1
- Replaced objdiff with an improved matching algorithm in objmanip keep-primary
- Added support for moving functions between compilation units
- Various safety improvements
2008-09-12 : 0.9.0
- Added support for ARM architecture (requires an -ffunction-sections kernel)
- Rewrote the relocation handling code to ease porting to other architectures
- Modified the update build system so that it uses the kernel build system
- Switched the module control interface from /proc to /sys
- Switched the preferred debugging interface from printk to debugfs
- Restructured the kernel code to make it easier to merge Ksplice into Linux
- Simplified ksplice-create by moving all ELF manipulation to objmanip
- Added libudis86 for enhanced run-pre matching
- Added support for automatically modifying the exported symbol table
- Various safety improvements
2008-06-22 : 0.8.7
- Updated the nop table for binutils 2.18
- Improved relocation handling on x86-64
2008-05-25 : 0.8.6
- Removed some compiler warnings
2008-05-24 : 0.8.5
- Added a workaround for Fedora System.map problem
- Improved the page table code
- Improved kernel stack check debugging
2008-04-29 : 0.8.4
- Fixed architecture detection on ASP Linux
2008-04-28 : 0.8.3
- Improved kernel stack check
2008-04-27 : 0.8.2
- Improved kernel stack check
2008-04-24 : 0.8.1
- Fixed 2.6.25 init_mm problem
2008-04-22 : 0.8.0
- Initial release