Changelog

• 2009-08-23 : 0.9.9 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • 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 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Updated the nop table for binutils 2.18
  • Improved relocation handling on x86-64
• 2008-05-25 : 0.8.6 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Removed some compiler warnings
• 2008-05-24 : 0.8.5 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Added a workaround for Fedora System.map problem
  • Improved the page table code
  • Improved kernel stack check debugging
• 2008-04-29 : 0.8.4 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Fixed architecture detection on ASP Linux
• 2008-04-28 : 0.8.3 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Improved kernel stack check
• 2008-04-27 : 0.8.2 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Improved kernel stack check
• 2008-04-24 : 0.8.1 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Fixed 2.6.25 init_mm problem
• 2008-04-22 : 0.8.0 (source, i386, x86_64)
  • Initial release