ABI compliance checker ChangeLog

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Contents

Version 1.21 (19 August 2010)

abi-compliance-checker-1.21.tar.gz
This release includes many improvements and bug fixes. Tested on 155 system libraries.

  • New features:
    • You can specify RPM or DEB "devel" package, standalone header, standalone shared object or directory with headers and shared objects instead of the standard XML descriptor.
    • Added --check-implementation option: compare disassembled binary code to detect changes in the interface implementation.
    • Added --objects-only option: compare shared objects without header files.
    • Added --get|--download option: try to get the report from the Upstream Tracker DB.
    • Added --v1 and --v2 options: specify version number outside the descriptor.
    • Improved help message.
    • Improved performance of the tool.
    • Removed template instances and stdc++ interfaces from the report (C++).
    • Added README.html and CHANGES.html to the package.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected ABI compatibility report.
    • Corrected interface names and versions in the report.
    • Corrected number of problems in report summary.
    • Corrected ABI dump.

Version 1.20 (3 August 2010)

abi-compliance-checker-1.20.tar.gz
This is a next bug fix release. Tested on 145 system libraries.

  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected reports about added/withdrawn members in the structure types and added/withdrawn parameters.
    • Corrected report about added/withdrawn virtual functions if -headers_only option specified.
    • Corrected processing of header paths containing special characters.
  • New features:
    • Added <defines> section to the library descriptor: this section allows to add defines at the headers compiling stage.

Version 1.19 (22 July 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.19.tar.gz
This is a next bug fix release with several new features. Tested on 130 system libraries.

  • Bug fixes:
    • Removed duplicated problems from the report.
    • Corrected names of the template instances.
    • Corrected checking of reference type changes.
    • Corrected titles in the report.
    • Corrected size of some array types.
    • Corrected checking of added/withdrawn members in the structure types with reserved members.
    • Corrected checking of added/withdrawn parameters.
  • New features:
    • Added --library_full_name option to display full library name in title of the report.
    • Added --relpath option for replacing the {RELPATH} in the descriptor for ABI dumping.
    • Added <skip_libs> section to the library descriptor: this section contains a list of shared objects and/or directories with shared objects that should not be processed.
    • Improved performance on big libraries.

Version 1.18 (25 June 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.18.tar.gz
This is generally a bug fix release. Tested on 100 system libraries.

  • New features:
    • Added --relpath1 and --relpath2 options for replacing the {RELPATH} in the descriptors. Old option -relpath was removed.
    • Added <add_include_paths> section to the library descriptor: this section contains a list of include paths that should be added to the automatically detected include paths.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Added some previously missed compatibility problems in the report.
    • Corrected techniques for auto-detection of header file dependencies (include paths).
    • Removed problems relating to the changes in the temporary header files.
    • Corrected interface signatures in the report.
    • Corrected checking of added/withdrawn parameters.
    • Corrected changes in the virtual tables of the libraries with symbol versioning.
    • Corrected checking of complex namespaces changes (C++).
    • Added namespaces information to the ABI dump.

Version 1.17.2 (16 June 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.17.2.tar.gz
This intermediate release includes several bug fixes.

  • Bug fixes:
    • Repaired --separately option.
    • Corrected permissions of LICENSE file.
    • Corrected tool description.

Version 1.17.1 (09 June 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.17.1.tar.gz
This intermediate release includes critical bug fixes.

  • New features:
    • Added --relpath option for adding prefixes to the paths in the library descriptor.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected checking of added/withdrawn parameters.
    • Corrected processing of mixed C/C++ header sets.
    • Corrected checking of parameter type changes.

Version 1.17 (08 June 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.17.tar.gz
This is generally a bug fix release. Tested on 75 system libraries.

  • New features:
    • Visualizing of the serious changes (added/withdrawn parameters) in the interface signature.
    • Recursive analysis of constant changes.
    • Separated stderr and stdout streams of the tool.
    • Added <skip_constants> section to the library descriptor for skipping checks of some constants.
    • Added --params option for adding function parameter names to the report.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected analysis of virtual table layout changes.
    • Corrected analysis of parameter type changes.
    • Corrected complex array type names.
    • Corrected typedef names.
    • Corrected analysis of structure layout changes.
    • Fixed tool hanging on some C++ headers (with many namespaces).
    • Corrected analysis of Glibc headers.
    • Corrected analysis of library language changes (if added some C++ headers).
    • Corrected descriptions of some compatibility problems.
    • Corrected analysis of added/withdrawn parameters in C headers.

Version 1.16 (05 May 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.16.tar.gz
This release includes many bug fixes and new features after integration to the Upstream Tracker system.

  • New features:
    • Added --strict option for treating all compatibility warnings as problems.
    • Added --dumpversion option for printing tool version and don't do anything else.
    • Ignoring hidden .svn, .git, .bzr, .hg, and CVS directories.
    • Improved header files sorting for protecting from compilation errors on the intermediate phase of temporary header file compilation.
    • Improved techniques for auto-detection of header file dependencies (include paths).
    • Ignoring problems related to changes of constants (defines) describing library version (*_VERSION_*, *_COPYRIGHT_* and other).
    • New internal test cases.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Checking of some previously missed C++ namespaces.
    • Removed hidden "void const** __vtt_parm" parameters from signatures of some constructors.
    • Corrected dumping of C++ classes ABI.
    • Corrected checking of pure virtual destructors.
    • Removed unnecessary built-in constants from the ABI dump.

Version 1.15 (26 March 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.15.tar.gz
This is generally a bug fix release with the changed license.

  • New features:
    • The license was changed to dual GNU GPL and LGPL.
    • Added <skip_headers> section in the descriptor.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected processing of <include_paths> section in the descriptor.
    • Corrected processing of relative paths in the <headers> and <include_paths> sections.
    • Directory with temporary files renamed from "temp" to hidden ".tmp_dir".
    • Corrected processing of shared object dependencies.
    • Corrected processing of some previously missed functions and conversion operators in C++.
    • Corrected internal test suite.
    • Corrected some error messages.

Version 1.14 (3 March 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.14.tar.gz

  • New features:
    • Added techniques for auto-detection of header file dependencies (include paths). Now providing of <include_paths> section in the descriptor is not necessary.
    • Ported to FreeBSD and Haiku.
    • Added check for gcc/g++ version (>=3.0.0).
    • Added sorting of interface problems by namespace in the report (C++).
    • Improved internal test suite.
    • Added log for describing tool actions and occurred errors.
    • Added exit error code (high/medium risk for ABI break).
  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected ABI dumping.
    • Corrected styles in the report design.

Version 1.13 (16 February 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.13.tar.gz
This is generally a bug fix release.

  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected processing of tab characters in the descriptor.
    • Corrected help message.
    • Corrected descriptor template structure.
    • Corrected error and warning messages.
    • Corrected processing of shared object dependencies.

Version 1.12 (4 December 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.12.tar.gz
This is generally a bug fix release.

  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected classification of compatibility problems in the report.
    • Priority of problems related to changes in the methods object was reduced.
    • Corrected complex template type names.
  • New features:
    • New help message.
    • Highlighting of [in-charge], [not-in-charge] constructors and destructors in the report was improved.
    • New option -time for enabling time measurements.
    • New internal test cases.

Version 1.11 (10 November 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.11.tar.gz

  • New Features:
    • Added ability to check portability of applications to the new library version ( --app option ).
    • Memory usage decreased twice.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Corrected checking of added middle structure members.
    • Corrected names of template types (with intrinsic, bool and string parameters).
    • Corrected highlighting of function signatures in the report.

Version 1.10 (2 November 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.10.tar.gz

  • New Features:
    • Checking added/dropped function parameters (C language only).
    • Improvements in the design of ABI compliance report.
    • New internal test cases.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Incorrect checking of redefined virtual functions and differences in parameter types.
    • More careful checking of withdrawn interfaces using shared library dependencies.

Version 1.9 (12 October 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.9.tar.gz

  • Improvements in the design of ABI compliance report.
  • Improvements in the algorithms for checking parameter/member type change.
  • Fixed incorrect names of typedefs and function pointer types.
  • Checking of some previously missed C++-functions.
  • Removed some false positives from the report (for anon-types).
  • New internal test cases.

Version 1.8 (29 September 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.8.tar.gz
It is the bug fix release after integration to the Moblin SigChk
and testing of Moblin-2.0 libraries for ABI compliance with Ubuntu-Moblin-Remix-9.10 libraries.

  • Bug fixes:
    • Size of ABI info dumps have been reduced through removing of unnecessary information.
    • Incorrect names of template instances and function pointer types.
    • Incorrect positions of function parameters in the section 'Interface Problems' in the report.
    • Removed some false positives from the report.
    • Incorrect handling of special symbols in the paths to header files and shared objects.
  • New features:
    • Added ability to specify a file with a list of interfaces that should be checked.

Version 1.7 (11 September 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.7.tar.gz

  • New features:
    • Checking of incorrect symbols versioning.
    • Checking the values of defines (constants).
    • Ability to check header files without shared objects. It is easy to run, but may provide a low quality ABI compliance report
      with a lot of false positives and without detecting of added/withdrawn interfaces.
    • Number of checked interfaces and data types in the report.
    • Added tests for checking new features.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Incorrect processing of duplicated headers in the input set (headers with the same name but different paths).
    • Incorrect header files include order.
    • Sorting in the ABI dumps.
    • Incorrect processing of redefined virtual methods.
    • Incorrect processing of anon types.
    • Absence of some necessary information about C++-functions in the ABI dumps.

Version 1.6 (31 August 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.6.tar.gz

  • Incorrect processing of relative paths in library descriptors has been corrected.
  • Displaying of machine hardware name instead of processor type in the ABI compliance report.
  • Many grammar/spelling errors have been fixed.
  • Section <internal_interfaces> in the library descriptor has been renamed to <skip_interfaces>.
  • Cosmetic changes in the code.

Version 1.5 (25 August 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.5.tar.gz

  • Section <internal_functions> in the library descriptor has been renamed to <internal_interfaces>
  • ABI dump has been renamed to *.abi.tar.gz (previously it was *.info.tar.gz)
  • Absent information about opaque types and internal interfaces has been added to the ABI dump
  • Some errors in the design of ABI compliance report have been fixed
  • Some glaring grammar/spelling errors have been fixed
  • Incorrect interface names in ABI compliance report have been corrected (for -separately option)

Version 1.4 (18 August 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.4.tar.gz

  • Added ability to check ABI compliance of library versions placed on different machines
  • Header files checking mode by default has been changed: checking all header files together instead of separate checking
  • The following bugs have been fixed:
    • Incorrect description for affected interfaces
    • Incorrect virtual table checking

Version 1.3 (14 August 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.3.tar.gz
This is the bug fix release. The following bugs have been fixed:

  • Incorrect number of binary compatibility problems in the report summary.
  • Incorrect design of problem descriptions in the report.

Version 1.2 (07 August 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.2.tar.gz
New email address for bug reports and feature requests.

Version 1.1 (06 August 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.1.tar.gz
Design of the ABI compliance report has been greatly improved.

Version 1.0 (31 July 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.0.0.tar.gz
Initial version of the tool.