diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index b78a4602da..478416e80d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,81 @@ This file details the changelog of Capstone. --------------------------------- +Version 2.1 + +[ API changes ] + +- API version has been bumped to 2.1. +- Change prototype of the API cs_close() to be able to invalidate closed handle. + See http://capstone-engine.org/version_2.1_API.html for more information. +- Extend cs_support() to handle more query types, not only about supported + architectures. This change is backward compatible, however, so existent code + do not need to be modified to support this. +- New query type CS_SUPPORT_DIET for cs_support() to ask about diet status of + the engine. +- New error code CS_ERR_DIET to report errors about newly added diet mode. +- New error code CS_ERR_VERSION to report issue of incompatible versions between + bindings & core engine. + + +[ Core changes ] + +- On memory usage, Capstone uses about 40% less memory, while still faster + than version 2.0. +- All architectures are much smaller: binaries size reduce at least 30%. + Especially, X86-only binary reduces from 1.9MB to just 720KB. +- Support "diet" mode, in which engine size is further reduced (by around 40%) + for embedding purpose. The price to pay is that we have to sacrifice some + non-critical data fields. See http://capstone-engine.org/diet.html for more + details. + + +[ Architectures ] + +- Update all 5 architectures to support more instructions & bug fixes. +- +- Arm + - Support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). + - Support friendly register, so instead of output sub "r12,r11,0x14", + we have "sub ip,fp,0x14". +- Arm64: support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). +- PowerPC: + - New instructions: FMR & MSYNC. +- Mips: + - New instruction: DLSA +- X86: + - Properly handle AVX-512 instructions. + - New instructions: PSETPM, SALC, INT1, GETSEC. + - Fix some memory leaking issues in case of prefixed instructions such + as LOCK, REP, REPNE. + + +[ Python binding ] + +- Verify the core version at initialization time. Refuse to run if its version + is different from the core's version. +- New API disasm_lite() added to Cs class. This light API only returns tuples of + ((address, size, mnemonic, op_str), rather than list of CsInsn objects. This + improves performance by around 30% in some benchmarks. +- Added new API cs_version_bind() returning binding's version, which might + differ from the core's API version if binding is out-of-date. +- Fixed some memory leaking bugs for Cython binding. +- Fix a bug crashing Cython code when accessing @regs_read/regs_write/groups. + + +[ Java binding ] + +- Fix some memory leaking bugs. +- Added version() API & support diet mode. +- Better support for detail option. + + +[ Miscellaneous ] + +- make.sh now can be used to uninstall the core engine. This is done with: + $ sudo ./make.sh uninstall + +---------------------------------- Version 2.0: January 22nd, 2014 Release 2.0 deprecates verison 1.0 and brings a lot of crucial changes.