elfutils 0.189 release next week

elfutils 0.189 release next week

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

We accumulated a lot of patches since 0.188 (59 commits by 13 authors)
with some nice new features and some important bug fixes. So it would
be good to push a new release out.

I cleaned up the patchwork list and will go over the following 25
pending patches to see what can be incorporated:
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/elfutils/list/ [*]
If your patch is not on that list please ping.

I propose to do the 0.189 release on Tuesday February 28, but it can be
earlier or later if that is more convenient.

Cheers,

Mark

[*] That is this list of patches:
git pw patch list --format simple --state New --state RFC --state
Under-Review --state Changes-Requested --column Name

[2/2] libdw: Use elf_rawdata when checking .debug section
[1/2] libelf: memmove any extra bytes left by elf_cvt_gnuhash convers...
A scenario where Perf cannot unwind the user stack by dwarf with libd...
PR28873 - Implement eu-readelf -D
[v2,16/16] lib: Use HAVE_LIBINTL_H to guard #include <libintl.h>
[v2,15/16] libelf: F_GETFD may not predefined with msvc/mingw, guard ...
[v2,14/16] Add function sys_get_page_size to replace platform depende...
[v2,12/16] libasm/debuginfod: fchmod doesn't present on win32
[v2,11/16] libebl/libdwelf: define ssize_t and pid_t for MSVC within ...
[v2,10/16] libasm: stdio_ext.h are not present on win32
[v2,09/16] libelf: uid_t, gid_t and mode_t are not comes with msvcrt,...
[v2,08/16] lib: Implement error properly even when not HAVE_ERR_H
[v2,07/16] libdw: Fixes compile of dwarf_whatattr.c and dwarf_whatfor...
[v2,05/16] libcpu: Remove the need of NMNES by using enum
[v2,04/16] Fixes usage of basename about prototype differences
[v2,03/16] Use configure to detect HAVE_DECL_MMAP and use it for syst...
[v2,02/16] move platform depended include into system.h of libebl
PATCH: Bug debuginfod/29472 followup
[RFC] backends: Add RISC-V object attribute printing
[Bug,libdw/29434] Memory leak in `dwarf_getscopes`
[PATCHv2] strip: keep .ctf section in stripped file
[4/4] libdwfl, eu-stack, aarch64: Add API for setting AARCH64 PAC mas...
[3/4] libdwfl, aarch64: Demangle return addresses using a PAC mask
[2/4] libdw, aarch64: Implement DW_CFA_AARCH64_negate_ra_state CFI in...
[1/4] aarch64: Create definitions for AARCH64_RA_SIGN_STATE register

Re: elfutils 0.189 release next week

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 14:33 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> We accumulated a lot of patches since 0.188 (59 commits by 13 authors)
> with some nice new features and some important bug fixes. So it would
> be good to push a new release out.
> 
> I cleaned up the patchwork list and will go over the following 25
> pending patches to see what can be incorporated:
> https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/elfutils/list/ [*]
> If your patch is not on that list please ping.
> 
> I propose to do the 0.189 release on Tuesday February 28, but it can be
> earlier or later if that is more convenient.

I still would like to do a release this week (so tomorrow, Friday). We
made good progress on the patch queue. Only 4 are still marked as NEW
and 6 more patches made it in. Please go over the review notes of any
patches you really want to go in before the release. We'll do another
one in 3 months, so don't feel pressured.

I am still looking at the "A scenario where Perf cannot unwind the user
stack by dwarf with libdw.so" patch [1]. It cannot be replicated with
eu-stack, which surprises me, so perf and eu-stack do something
different and I don't yet understand what that is.

Cheers,

Mark

[1]
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/elfutils/patch/88c25e0709834e1a816630c944377640@huawei.com/
(But most discussion has been off-list)