Subject Libabigail 2.5 is out!

[Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>]

Hello,

Libabigail 2.5 has been released.

You can download it at http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/libabigail/libabigail-2.5.tar.xz.

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 interfaces of ELF binaries resulting from the compilation of C,
C++, Fortran, Ada, Rust, Go or OCaml programs.

Typical use cases of libabigail tools include detecting ABI
incompatible changes across several releases of shared libraries or
incompatible changes in the interface between a Linux kernel and its
modules, 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.

Some highlights of this release include:

    - Improved suppression specification for strict flexible array
      data member conversions.

    - Added support for pointer-to-member types in C++ binaries.

    - Improved weak mode of the abicompat tool.

    - Introduce the 'abidb' tool to manage the ABI of operating systems.

Of course, this release also includes the usual load of bug fixes.

Below is the full summary of the significant changes in this new
release:

    Dodji Seketeli (55):
	  configure: Bump development version to 2.5
	  Bug 31045 - Don't try setting translation unit for unique types
	  suppression: Add "has_strict_flexible_array_data_member_conversion" property
	  abilint: Support --annotate
	  abilint: Alphabetically sort programs options
	  Improve type naming
	  Bug 30260 - Support pointer-to-member type
	  Bump abixml version to 2.3
	  Bump LIBABIGAIL_SO_CURRENT version to 4
	  Bug 31236 - Fix removing a member declaration from its scope
	  Bug 31279 - Acknowledge that opaque types are always decl-only
	  Remove python3-mock dependency and use unittest.mock instead
	  abidw: Fix indentation
	  ir: Fix wording of several comments
	  ir: Avoid duplicates when reading member functions
	  dwarf-reader: Avoid duplicating union members
	  dwarf-reader: Fix detection of C language DIEs
	  writer: Avoid emitting a canonical type twice
	  writer: Don't forget data members when emitting referenced types
	  ir: Introduce a missing IR kind for subrange types
	  ir: Cache internal name for several types
	  dwarf-reader,corpus: Use interned string to lookup corpus interfaces by ID.
	  dwarf-reader: Bug 31377 - Fix the IR for zero length arrays
	  PR25409-librte_bus_dpaa.so.20.0.abi: Update to 2.3
	  btr-reader: Fix wording typo
	  ir,{btf,ctf,dwarf}-reader: Rename {subrange_type,array_type_def}::is_infinite.
	  test-alt-dwarf-file.cc: Fix test result accounting
	  test-abicomat.cc: Don't show details about PASSing tests.
	  ir: Fix indentation
	  ir,corpus,comparison: Const-iffy the access to corpus interfaces
	  abicompat: Port this to the multi-front-end architecture
	  ir: Use linkage name to sort virtual function members
	  dwarf-reader, ir: Add member fns to exported corpus fns after c14n
	  dwarf-reader: Fix DIE origin handling & scope getting
	  tests/data/test-diff-pkg: Update dpkg related reference output
	  ir,dwarf-reader: Better handle inline-ness setting or detection
	  comparison: Better sort function difference report
	  ir,dwarf-reader: Peel const-qualifier from const this pointers
	  dwarf-reader: Support creating functions from DW_TAG_inlined_subroutine
	  abidw: Add a -o short option for --out-file
	  tools-utils.cc: Fix potential crash when testing for CTF debug info
	  Represent undefined corpus interfaces to analyze app compatibility
	  Factorize elf-reader::{variable,function}_symbol_is_exported into symtab
	  Add support for undefined symbols in the BTF reader
	  Emit & read undefined interfaces to & from ABIXML
	  abicompat: Fix exit code in weak mode
	  ir: Fix Emacs C++ mode header
	  comparison: Fix typo
	  suppression: Fix indentation
	  abidiff: Fix indentation of help string
	  Bug 31513 - abidiff considers data members moved to base class as harmful
	  comparison: Fix erroneous detection of deleted anonymous data members
	  Bug 31513 - Fix fallout of initial patch
	  Bug 29160 - support fn symbol aliasing a var symbol
	  Bug 31646: Fix type suppression tactics for webkit2gtk3
	  tests/runtestabidb?.sh.in: Fix git initialization
	  configure: Add option to disable abidb

    Frank Ch. Eigler (2):
	  abidb: Introduce a tool to manage the ABI of a Linux distribution
	  abidb: drop the TODO items from the python script

    Giuliano Procida (1):
	  website: doxygen: set PROJECT_NAME to libabigail

    Mark Wielaard (2):
	  Fix ABG_ASSERT in build_ir_node_from_die for DW_TAG_member
	  Recognize EM_RISCV in e_machine_to_string

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
programs be noticed!

-- 
		Dodji