ABI Compliance Checker - Change Log

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Version 1.99.8.1 (August 05, 2013)

abi-compliance-checker-1.99.8.1.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Optimized performance and memory usage (up to 90%) on input objects with a huge number of changes and deep data type trees (e.g. Linux kernel)
  • Partial support for GCC 4.8.{0-1}, waiting for a fix for the bug 57850 in the next GCC versions
  • Support for incomplete ABI dumps

• New Options
  • -affected-limit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed identification of template constructors and destructors
  • Do not show "this" first argument of methods in the report
  • Corrected descriptions of affected symbols in the report
  • Fixed false alarms on changed offset of parameters

• Other
  • Code refactoring

Version 1.99.7 (July 01, 2013)

abi-compliance-checker-1.99.7.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Added missed fields of template instance types to the ABI dump
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps
  • Added Struct_Field_Size_Increased rule
  • Support for vector types (GCC extension)
  • Removed duplicates from the ABI dump
  • Corrected visualization of v-table content in the report
  • Corrected identification of target headers
  • Corrected source-compatibility check
  • Performance optimization (5%)

• New Options
  • -check - to check completeness of the ABI dump

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed default arguments of methods (broken in 1.99.1 due to added "this" parameter)

• Other
  • Extended test suite

Version 1.99.1 (June 07, 2013)

abi-compliance-checker-1.99.1.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Support for ABI Dumper 0.97
  • Show added/removed inline virtual functions in the binary compatibility report
  • Added "this" hidden parameter to non-static class methods in the ABI dump

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed XmlDump module
  • Fixed CallConv module

• Other
  • Support for old ABI dumps

Version 1.99 (May 24, 2013)

abi-compliance-checker-1.99.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Support for ABI Dumper 0.95
  • Added 14 binary-compatibility rules
  • Added 10 source-compatibility rules
  • Improved model of type alignment
  • Changed version of ABI dump format to 3.0
  • Added _vptr member to virtual classes
  • Added constants defined by GCC to ABI dump
  • Improved analysis of constants

• New Options
  • -skip-symbols

• Bug Fixes
  • Increased severity of Field_Became_Non_Mutable rule

• Other
  • Support for old ABI dumps
  • Extended test suite (+11 test cases)
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.98.8 (February 07, 2013)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.8.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Show added and removed constants (#defines) in the report
  • Show changes in unnamed enumerations
  • Avoid false alarm about renamed field if old name of this field is defined to new (SC)
  • Recursive comparing of structured data types in *_Format rules
  • Added Typedef_BaseType_Format rule to check format changes in the typedef base type

• New Options
  • -tolerant
  • -tolerance

• Bug Fixes
  • Increased severity of Parameter_BaseType_And_Size BC rule (Low to Medium)
  • Increased severity of Added_Field SC rule (Safe to Low)
  • Corrected handling of the tool error codes in the test suite
  • Corrected handling of relative paths in descriptor options
  • Skipping linker-related options in gcc_options option of the descriptor
  • Corrected internal mangler for C++ functions
  • Corrected conditions for enabling of C++ compatibility mode
  • Corrected handling of C++ keywords in C-code
  • Corrected -extended option
  • Corrected Typedef_BaseType rule
  • Corrected parsing of default function arguments
  • Do not check presence of archive utilities if not used
  • Other fixes

• Other
  • Extended test suite
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.98.7 (December 14, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.7.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Extended extra info dumped by -extra-info option
  • Extended additional info dumped by -extra-dump option
  • Added specifiers for structs, unions and enums in the report and ABI dump
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected -debug option
  • Corrected creating of archives with ABI dumps
  • Corrected parsing of includes in header files
  • Corrected processing of undefined symbols
  • Corrected -app option
  • Corrected processing of default paths to system libraries
  • Corrected Makefile
  • Other fixes

• Other
  • Code cleaning and refactoring

Version 1.98.6 (December 04, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.6.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release.

• Improvements
  • Extended -extra-info and -extra-dump options

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected processing of input XML descriptor
  • Corrected "Parameter_Default_Value_Removed" rule
  • Other fixes

• Other
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.98.5 (November 30, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.5.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Support for Mac OS X 10.8
  • Support for OpenBSD
  • Support for old GCC versions <= 4.2
  • Added "throw" and "weak" attributes of methods to ABI dump

• New Options
  • -extra-info
  • -extra-dump
  • -force

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected order of user-defined include paths
  • Corrected internal C++ mangler
  • Removed false positives of the "Parameter_Type_Format" rule
  • Other fixes

• Other
  • Extended test suite
  • Code cleaning
  • Docs cleaning

Version 1.98.4 (October 18, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.4.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Optimization of memory usage (5%-10%) and performance (5%-10%)
  • Added "Used Reserved Field" rule of binary compatibility analysis
  • Improved design of the operating system compatibility report
  • Added meta descriptors for 334 libraries

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue with diagnostics of added virtual functions
  • Corrected the list of functions affected by the compatibility problem
  • Avoid false alarm about removed function if this function became macro (SC)
  • Corrected parser of C header files
  • Other fixes

• Other
  • Extended test suite
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.98.3 (July 19, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.3.tar.gz

ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• New Features
  • Implemented a model of calling conventions on x86 and x86_64
  • Improved diagnostics of changes in function parameters and return value (distribution on registers and stack)

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected parser of C++ header files to detect non-member functions inside namespaces

• Other
  • Added requirement for Ctags (5.8 or newer)
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.98.2 (June 26, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.2.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• New Features
  • Support for reading ABI dumps in XML format
  • Automatic enabling of c++0x support if needed to compile headers

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected XML and Perl (default) formats of ABI dumps
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps
  • Improved -dump-system option

• Other
  • Improved documentation

Version 1.98.1 (June 18, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.1.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release.

• Bug Fixes
  • Removed symbols marked as LOCAL in a shared library from lists of added/removed symbols in source-compatibility report
  • Fixed a false positive with some removed extern "C" symbols in source-compatibility report
  • Fixed a bug with removed debug/ directory when using -use-dumps and -debug options together
  • Added support for skip_including section of target system XML descriptors (modules/Targets) used by -dump-system option
  • Extended XML ABI dumps by size attribute of library symbols

Version 1.98.0 (June 14, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.98.0.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• New Features
  • Implemented XML format of ABI dumps

• New Options
  • -dump-format

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps
  • Other fixes

Version 1.97.8 (June 08, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.97.8.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release with a few new features.

• Improvements
  • Redesigned format of ABI dump
  • Optimization of memory usage (5%-10%) and performance (5%-10%)
  • Improved support for GCC 4.0-4.5
  • Added <add_namespaces> section of the XML descriptor

• New Options
  • -open
  • -sort

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps
  • Fixed a bug with auto-detection of include paths when comparing two XML descriptors
  • Corrected output of -debug option
  • Corrected --dump-system and --cmp-systems options
  • Other fixes

• Other
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.97.5 (May 14, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.97.5.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a bug-fix release.

• Improvements
  • Extended ABI dumps by source-level type declarations
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps
  • Optimization of memory usage (20%-30%) and performance (10%-20%)

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected auto-detection of a set of target headers to check/dump in --headers-only mode
  • Other fixes

• Other
  • Extended regression test suite
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.97.4 (April 16, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.97.4.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

Improved quality of the compatibility analysis.

• New Features
  • Added 16 new binary-compatibility rules
  • Added 17 new source-compatibility rules

• Bug Fixes
  • Added some missed typedef types to function signatures

• Other
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps
  • Support for GCC 4.7
  • Extended regression test suite
  • Code cleaning

Version 1.97.3 (April 03, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.97.3.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

This is a next major release. The tool now checks for both binary and source-level compatibility issues with C/C++ APIs.

• Completed Tasks
  • Implement source-level compatibility checks (1371)
  • Implement 2.0 architecture (1105)

• New Features
  • Added --browse=PROG option (2612)
  • Added --xml alias option for --report-format=xml (2611)
  • Added --binary option to generate binary-compatibility report only
  • Added --source option to generate source-compatibility report only
  • Added --bin-report-path option: path to binary-compatibility report
  • Added --src-report-path option: path to source-compatibility report

• Other Features
  • Improved debug mode (--debug)
  • Improved mark-up of the HTML report
  • Improved support for old ABI dumps

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected ABI dumps

Version 1.96.8 (February 17, 2012)

abi-compliance-checker-1.96.8.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

• Completed Tasks
  • Implement XML format for compatibility report (1984)
  • Testing on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan Beta2 (1955)

• New Features
  • Add hidden statistics line to compatibility report for operating systems (2403)
  • Add --headers-list option (2400)
  • Add --lang option (2223)
  • Support for symbolic links in /usr/include and /usr/lib (2022)
  • Add <skip_include_paths> section of XML-descriptor (2021)
  • Add <skip_including> section of XML-descriptor (2012)
  • Add --list-affected option to create plain list of incompatible symbols (1994)
  • Add --quiet option to print all errors and warnings to the log file instead of stderr and stdout (1983)
  • Add --stdout option to print results to stdout (1982)
  • Add an option to check binary compatibility in the extended sense (1855)
  • Improve diagnostic messages for added base classes with virtual functions (1849)
  • Add -update option to installer (1837)
  • Add a relative default directory to locate modules after installation (1836)
  • Compatibility rate = (high+1/2*medium+1/4*low) / number of symbols (1794)

• Bug Fixes
  • Some symbols with extern "C" linkage are missed in --headers-only mode (2401)
  • Changes in global data are not detected under Windows (2311)
  • False negative: change global data to be "const" (2310)
  • Removed middle enumeration value is reported as renamed (2114)
  • False positive: change parameter type from "const int" to "int" (2097)
  • Support for old ABI dump format of ACC 1.21.6 (2024)
  • The tool doesn't search for included headers in /usr/lib/qt4/include/ (2010)
  • False Negative: Header is incompatible with itself (1986)
  • Check libstdc++ in --headers-only mode (1960)
  • Restrict checked header files in the --headers-only mode (1944)
  • Problem with mangled C++-functions using old ABI dump formats in --headers-only mode (1899)
  • Incorrect size of method pointer in ABI dumps (1897)
  • False negative: add/remove "register" modifier of the parameter (1882)
  • Incorrect WORD size when using old ABI dump format (1881)
  • Conflict of a static method with a function of the same name in the ABI dump (1853)
  • Missed right bracket of "func-ptr" type in HTML report (1842)
  • Incorrect report for overridden methods (1824)
  • False negative: override a virtual that doesn't come from a primary base (1808)
  • False negative: change a function parameter to be "restrict" (1805)
  • False negative: change a field to be "volatile" (1803)
  • False negative: change "const"-ness of a return value (1802)
  • False negative: change "volatile" attribute of a method (1801)
  • False positive: removed symbols with inline virtual prototype in the leaf class with default constructor (1791)

Version 1.94 (September 09, 2011)

abi-compliance-checker-1.94.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

• Completed Tasks
  • Separated regression tests into the module (1105)

• Added Features
  • Add Makefile.pl installer (1759)

Version 1.93.8 (September 08, 2011)

abi-compliance-checker-1.93.8.tar.gz
ACC 2.0 pre-release.

• Completed Tasks
  • Separated rules DB (1105)
  • Testing on Symbian SDK (1531)
  • Testing on Windows SDK (1629)
  • Support for OS3000 (1632)

• Added Features
  • SONAME change in the OS comparison table (1527)
  • Add a compatibility percentage to the OS comparison table (1595)
  • Add "-debug" option (1596)
  • Add listing of symbols in OS comparison table (1597)
  • Use "zip" format of dumps in Windows (1598)
  • Add "-dump-system descriptor.xml" option (1602)
  • Analysis of static libraries (1635)
  • Add -sysinfo option (1681)
  • Add -component option (1682)
  • Add -nostdinc option (1683)
  • Add "weakly"- and "almost"-compatible verdicts (1178)
  • Add <skip_namespaces> to the library XML-descriptor (1740)
  • Search for modules/ directory in the system (1741)

• Bug Fixes
  • Missed typedefs in the ABI dump using GCC 4.4.1 (1526)
  • False negative: change enum member value from zero to non-zero (1592)
  • False negative: interchange the positions of two fields in a structure (1593)
  • False positive: add a field instead of padding fields (1594)
  • Problems with "copied" classes (1599)
  • Changes in "private" fields (1600)
  • Illegal modulus zero at abi-compliance-checker.pl (1651)
  • Incorrect order of include paths (1653)
  • Change constness of a class method (1529)
  • False negative: change "struct Type" to "union Type" (1738)
  • Change parameter type from "..." to "int" (1750)
  • Remove/add "const"-qualifier of a method (1751)
  • False negative: renamed parameters (1753)

• Other
  • Improved debug mode (1596)

Version 1.23.5 (July 01, 2011)

abi-compliance-checker-1.23.5.tar.gz
This is a next bug fix release. Tested on 335 libraries

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected exit codes: 0 - compatible, 1 - incompatible, 2 - error, ... (1351)
  • Corrected diagnostic messages for C++ functions with changed signature (1361)
  • Fixed regression with C++ non-member functions (1368)
  • Removed false positive with overridden private methods (1369)
  • Corrected functionality for checking binary compatibility of operating systems
  • Removed false positive for removed default version of a symbol (1386)
  • Adapted -dump-system option for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan (1400)
  • Fixed hanging execution on "#include "../../file.h" (1448)
  • Fixed incorrect automatic include paths (1458)

Version 1.23 (June 07, 2011)

abi-compliance-checker-1.23.tar.gz
This release is sponsored by Nokia.

• New Features
  • Added 42 compatibility checks (total: 83)
  • Improved diagnostics of compatibility problems
  • Opened an issue tracker
  • Support for cross-compilers
  • Ported to Mac OS X (10.5) and MS Windows (Xp, Vista, 7)
  • Added a viewer of "real" v-table layouts for changed C++ classes
  • Added functionality to check OS backward compatibility
  • Supports for old-version dump formats (>=1.18)
  • Separated versioning of dump formats
  • Improved design of the compatibility report
  • Improved performance
  • Support for old GCC 3.4.4

• New Options
  • -cross-gcc: support for cross-compilers
  • -sysroot: specify the alternative system root directory
  • -dump-system, -cmp-systems: checking OS backward compatibility
  • -use-dumps: check for compatibility using the intermediate dumping
  • -show-retval: show symbol's return value type in the report
  • -old-dumps: support for old-version dumps
  • -test-dump: test for dumping functionality
  • -report-path: change the location of output compatibility report
  • -dump-path: change the location of output ABI dump
  • -log1-path, -log2-path: change the location of output logs

• Bug Fixes
  • Reduced false positives
  • Support for C-headers containing C++ keywords
  • Corrected automatic include paths for headers

Version 1.21.12 (April 29, 2011)

abi-compliance-checker-1.21.12.tar.gz (previous bug-fix releases: 1.21.9, 1.21.6)
This is a next bug fix release. Tested on 280 libraries.

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected automatic detection of include paths for header files.
  • Removed false positives with overridden virtual functions.
  • Corrected processing of typedef type names, fixed potential program hangup.
  • Added some missed problems relating to the return type changes of a function.
  • Corrected processing of a translation unit dump generated by modern GCC versions.
  • Corrected identifying of inline functions (using the -fkeep-inline-functions GCC option).
  • Corrected parser for C++: analysis of const global data and functions inside a namespace.
  • Corrected names and v-table checks for template types.
  • Corrected checks for changes in enumerations.
  • Corrected ABI dumping and sorting of dumps.
  • Corrected analysis of added/removed virtual functions.
  • Corrected help message and documentation.
  • Documentation has been moved to "doc/" subdirectory.
  • Using File::Temp for storing temporary files.
  • Support for latest GCC 4.6.0 and old GCC v3.x series.
  • Fixed infinite loop finding the path for "which" command in the system.
  • Corrected distinction of descriptor kinds (headers, libraries, directories and XML-descriptors).
  • Corrected processing of <include_paths> section in the XML-descriptors.

Version 1.21 (August 19, 2010)

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

• New Features
  • 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 --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 (August 30, 2010)

abi-compliance-checker-1.20.tar.gz
This is a next bug fix release. Tested on 145 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 (July 22, 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.19.tar.gz
This is a next bug fix release with several new features. Tested on 130 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 (June 25, 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.18.tar.gz
This is generally a bug fix release. Tested on 100 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 (June 16, 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 (June 09, 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 (June 08, 2010)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.17.tar.gz
This is generally a bug fix release. Tested on 75 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 (May 05, 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 (March 26, 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 (March 03, 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 (February 16, 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.

• New features
  • Added -version option.

Version 1.12 (December 04, 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 (November 10, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.11.tar.gz

• New Features
  • Added --app option to check portability of applications to the new library version.
  • 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 (November 02, 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 (October 12, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.9.tar.gz

• Improvements
  • Improved design of ABI compliance report.
  • Improved algorithms of checking parameter/field type change.

• Bug Fixes
  • 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).

• Other
  • New internal test cases.

Version 1.8 (September 29, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.8.tar.gz
It is the bug fix release after integration to the Moblin SigChk and testing Moblin-2.0 libraries for ABI compatibility 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 (September 11, 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 (August 31, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.6.tar.gz

• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected processing of relative paths in library descriptors
  • 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 (August 25, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.5.tar.gz

• Bug Fixes
  • Absent information about opaque types and internal interfaces has been added to the ABI dump
  • Some fixes in the design of ABI compliance report
  • Some fixes in grammar/spelling
  • The 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")
  • Corrected interface names in the ABI compliance report (for -separately option)

Version 1.4 (August 18, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.4.tar.gz

• Improvements
  • 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
• Bug Fixes
  • Incorrect description for affected interfaces
  • Incorrect virtual table checking

Version 1.3 (August 14, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.3.tar.gz
This is the bug fix release.

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

Version 1.2 (August 07, 2009)

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

Version 1.1 (August 06, 2009)

Abi-compliance-checker-1.1.tar.gz

• Improvements
  • Design of the ABI compliance report has been greatly improved

Version 1.0 (July 31, 2009)

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