Libabigail 1.0.rc5 is out!

Libabigail 1.0.rc5 is out!

[Dodji Seketeli]

Hello,

Libabigail 1.0.rc5 has been released.

You can download it at http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/libabigail/libabigail-1.0.rc5.tar.gz.

Libabigail is a library which aims at constructing, manipulating,
serializing and de-serializing ABI-relevant artifacts.

It also comes with a set of associated command line tools to compare the
ABI of ELF binaries resulting from the compilation of C or C++ programs.

Typical use cases of libabigail tools include detecting ABI incompatible
changes across several releases of shared libraries, for instance.

Users can of course write their own tools using the library.

The library comes with extensive API documentation available online at
https://sourceware.org/libabigail/apidoc.  The tools are documented
online as well at https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/libabigail-tools.html.

Below is a summary of the significant changes brought to you in this
new release:

Chenxiong:
      Bug 19428 - New fedabipkgdiff utility
      Bug 20085 - Add --dso-only option to fedabipkgdiff
      Bug 20135 - Make fedabipkgdiff compare ABIs using devel packages
      Add integration tests for fedabipkgdiff
      Fix package NVR comparison in fedabipkgdiff
      Use consistent string format in fedabipkgdiff
      Fix pep8 error in fedabipkgdiff

Dodji Seketeli:
      Bug 19964 - Cannot load function aliases on ppc64
      Bug 20015 - support file_name_not_regexp and soname_not_regexp in suppr specs
      Bug 20180 - Support system-wide suppression specifications
      Bug 19967 - System-level suppressions for glibc
      Fix python interpreter path for el6      
      Add doc, info, man and html-doc targets to top-level Makefile
      Update documentation to require doxygen and python-sphinx for building
      Make API documentation of thread pools visible
      Show SONAME of removed/added libraries in abipkgdiff
      Fix indentation in concepts manual
      Fix typo in concept manual
      Doc not show classes' inherited members in apidoc
      Fix mention of tool's name in abidiff error message
      Add several shortcuts to options for abicompat
      Fix indentation for abidiff manual
      Split suppression engine off of abg-comparison.{cc,h}
      Implement a [suppress_file] suppression directive
      Remove config.h.in from the repository
      Do not run fedabipkgdiff tests if --enable-fedabipkgdiff is turned off
      Update the COMMIT-LOG-GUIDELINES file
      Update the CONTRIBUTING file
      Support running "make check-valgrind"
      Fix a read passed-the-end in abg-dwarf-reader.cc
      Plug leak of diff_context_sptr after calling compute_diff
      Plug leak of regex_t in suppression engine
      Remove circular ref from class_decl::priv::definition_of_declaration
      Plug leak of shared private data of class_diff type
      Plug leak of debug info handles
      Fix invocation of delete operator in test-read-dwarf.cc
      Speedup diff node child insertion
      Plug leak of diffs of member variables of class type
      Avoid unnecessary computation of type name in suppression evaluation
      Minimize number of string::length calculation
      Light optimizations by passing reference to smart pointers around
      Optimize out some shared_ptr use
      Add missing API doc strings
      Enhance API doc for diff_context::add_diff
      Fix bash completion configure status
      Fix white space in abg-comparison.cc
      Fix whitespaces in autotools files
      Document how to handle regression tests in CONTRIBUTING
      Fix the number of removed functions in change report
      Make abi{pkg}diff filter out changes about private types
      Add a 'check-valgrind' target to the top-most Makefile.am
      Add test data for tests/runtestfedabipkgdiff.py
      Fix some wording in the Libabigail overview manual page
      Update reference to tools in libabigail-concepts manual
      Fix suppr spec wording in abipkgdiff manual
      Better diagnostics when abipkgdiff has an extra argument
      Add --abipkgdiff option to fedabipkgdiff
      Don't require all version symbol sections to present
      Escape all characters when reading a string in ini files
      Improve python modules detection
      Cleanup function_decl::parameter::get_pretty_representation
      Misc white space and comment cleanups
      Use ODR-based optimization on C/C++ translation unit only
      Misc cleanup in abg-reader.cc

Sinny Kumari:
      Bug 19961 - Distinguish between PI executable and shared library
      Change parent directory for keeping extracted packages in abipkgdiff

Many thanks to those who contributed to this release with bug reports,
comments or code.

Happy Hacking and may all significant binary interface changes of your
libraries be noticed!

-- 
		Dodji