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+This file details the changelog of Capstone.
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 4.0.1: January 10th, 2019
+
+
+[ Core ]
+
+- Fix some issues for packaging (Debian, Gentoo).
+- Better support for building with Mingw.
+- cstool has new option -s to turn on skipdata mode.
+- cstool -v now report build settings of the core.
+- Add suite/capstone_get_setup.c so users can integrate with their own code
+ to retrieve Capstone settings at build time.
+
+
+[ Arm ]
+
+- Fix 4.0 regression: the `tbh [r0, r1, lsl #1]` instruction sets the operand.shift.value back again (see #1317)
+- Remove ARM_REG_PC group for BX instruction.
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Fix: endbr32 and endbr64 instructions are now properly decoded in both CS_MODE_32 and CS_MODE_64 (#1129)
+
+
+[ M680X ]
+
+- Fix some issues reported by clang-analyzer (#1329).
+
+
+[ Python ]
+
+- Fix skipdata setup.
+- Add getter/setter for skipdata_mnem, skipdata_callback.
+
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 4.0: December 18th, 2018
+
+
+[ Core ]
+
+- New APIs: cs_regs_access()
+- Add new options for cs_option(): CS_OPT_MNEMONIC & CS_OPT_UNSIGNED & CS_OPT_SYNTAX_MASM.
+- Various updates & bugfixes for all architectures.
+- Add 4 new architectures: EVM, M68K, M680X & TMS320C64x.
+- Add new group types: CS_GRP_PRIVILEGE & CS_GRP_BRANCH_RELATIVE.
+- Add new error types: CS_ERR_X86_MASM.
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Add XOP code condition type in x86_xop_cc.
+- Add some info on encoding to cs_x86 in cs_x86_encoding.
+- Add register flags update in cs_x86.{eflags, fpu_flags}
+- Change cs_x86.disp type from int32_t to int64_t.
+- Add new groups: X86_GRP_VM & X86_GRP_FPU.
+- Lots of new instructions (AVX)
+
+
+[ ARM64 ]
+
+- Add instruction ARM64_INS_NEGS & ARM64_INS_NGCS.
+
+
+[ Mips ]
+
+- Add mode CS_MODE_MIPS2.
+
+
+[ PPC ]
+
+- Change cs_ppc_op.imm type from int32_t to int64_t.
+- Add new groups: PPC_GRP_ICBT, PPC_GRP_P8ALTIVEC, PPC_GRP_P8VECTOR & PPC_GRP_QPX.
+- Lots of new instructions (QPX among them)
+
+
+[ Sparc ]
+
+- Change cs_sparc_op.imm type from int32_t to int64_t.
+
+
+[ Binding ]
+
+- New bindings: PowerShell & VB6
+
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0.5: July 18th, 2018
+
+
+[ Core ]
+
+- Fix the include path for Android builds when building cstool.
+- Add posibility to disable universal build for Mac OS.
+- cstool: Separate instruction bytes by spaces.
+- Fix code path of pkg-config in Cmake.
+- Update XCode project for XCode 9.1.
+- Add Cortex-M support to cstool.
+- Cmake forces to be build using MT with MSVC.
+- Better support for Mac OS kernel.
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Fix some issues in handling EVEX & VEX3 instructions.
+- Fix immediate operand for AND instruction in ATT mode.
+- Fix ATT syntax when imm operand is 0.
+- Better handle XACQUIRE/XRELEASE.
+- Fix imm operand of RETF.
+
+
+[ ARM ]
+
+- Fix an integer overlow bug.
+
+
+[ ARM64 ]
+
+- Bug fix for incorrect operand type in certain load/store instructions.
+
+
+[ Mips ]
+
+- Mode CS_MODE_MIPS32R6 automatically sets CS_MODE_32
+
+
+[ PPC ]
+
+- Fix endian check.
+
+
+[ Sparc ]
+
+- Fix an integer overlow bug.
+
+
+[ SystemZ ]
+
+- Fix an integer overlow bug.
+
+
+[ Python binding ]
+
+- Raise error on accessing irrelevant data fields if skipdata & detail modes are enable.
+
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0.5-rc3: July 31st, 2017
+
+
+[ Core ]
+
+- Fix compilation for MacOS kernel extension
+- cstool to support armbe and arm64be modes
+- Add nmake.bat for Windows build
+- Fix an integer overflow for Windows kernel driver
+- Support to embedded Capstone into MacOS kernel
+- cstool: fix mips64 mode
+- Fix a compiling error in MS Visual Studio 2015
+- Install pkgconfig file with CMake build
+- Fix SOVERSION property of CMake build
+- Properly handle switching to Endian mode at run-time for Arm, Arm64, Mips & Sparc
+- Fix MingW build
+- Better handle CMake installation for Linux 64bit
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Support BND prefix of Intel MPX extension
+- Correct operand size for CALL/JMP in 64bit mode with prefix 0x66
+- LOCK NOP is a valid instruction
+- Fix ATT syntax for instruction with zero offset segment register
+- LES/LDS are invalid in 64bit mode
+- Fix number of operands for some MOV instructions
+
+
+[ ARM ]
+
+- Fix POP reg to update SP register
+- Update flags for UADD8 instruction
+
+
+[ ARM64 ]
+
+- Better performance with new lookup table
+- Handle system registers added in ARMv8.1/2
+
+
+[ Java binding ]
+
+- Better handle input with invalid code
+
+
+[ Visual Basic binding ]
+
+- New binding
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0.5-rc2: March 2nd, 2017
+
+
+[ Core ]
+
+- Fix build for Visual Studio 2012
+- Fix X86_REL_ADDR macro
+- Add CS_VERSION_MAJOR, CS_VERSION_MINOR, CS_VERSION_EXTRA
+- Better support for embedding Capstone into Windows kernel drivers
+- Support to embedded Capstone into MacOS kernel
+- Support MacOS 10.11 and up
+- Better support for Cygwin
+- Support build packages for FreeBSD & DragonflyBSD
+- Add a command-line tool "cstool"
+- Properly handle switching to Endian mode at run-time for Arm, Arm64, Mips & Sparc
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Some random 16-bit code can be handled wrongly.
+- Remove abundant operand type X86_OP_FP
+- Fix instructions MOVQ, LOOP, LOOPE, LOOPNE, CALL/JMP rel16, REPNE LODSD, MOV *AX, MOFFS, FAR JMP/CALL
+- Add X86_REG_EFLAGS for STC and STD
+- Fix instruction attributes for SYSEXIT, MOVW, ROL, LGS, SLDT
+- Rename registers ST0-ST7 to be consistent with asm output
+
+
+[ ARM ]
+
+- Properly handle IT instruction
+- Fix LDRSB
+- Fix writeback for LDR
+- Fix Thumb BigEndian setup
+
+
+[ ARM64 ]
+
+- Fix arith extender
+- Fix writeback for LDR
+- Rename enum arm64_mrs_reg to arm64_sysreg
+
+
+[ PowerPC ]
+
+- Print 0 offset for memory operand
+
+
+[ Sparc ]
+
+- Fix POPC instruction
+
+
+[ Python binding ]
+
+- Better PyPy support
+- Add __version__
+- Better support for Python 3
+- Fix CS_SKIPDATA_CALLBACK prototype
+- Cast skipdata function inside binding to simplify the API
+
+
+[ Java binding ]
+
+- Better handle input with invalid code
+
+
+[ PowerShell ]
+
+- New binding
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0.4: July 15th, 2015
+
+
+[ Library ]
+
+- Improve cross-compile for Android using Android NDK.
+- Support cross-compile for AArch64 Android (with Linux GCC).
+- Removed osxkernel_inttypes.h that is incompatible with BSD license.
+- Make it possible to compile with CC having a space inside (like "ccache gcc").
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Fix a null pointer dereference bug on handling code with special prefixes.
+- Properly handle AL/AX/EAX operand for OUT instruction in AT&T syntax.
+- Print immediate operand in positive form in some algorithm instructions.
+- Properly decode some SSE instructions.
+
+
+[ PowerPC ]
+
+- Fixed a memory corruption bug.
+- Fixed a memory corruption bug for the engine built in DIET mode.
+
+
+[ Mips ]
+
+- Fixed instruction ID of SUBU instruction.
+- Fixed a memory corruption bug.
+
+
+[ Arm ]
+
+- Fixed a memory corruption bug on IT instruction.
+
+
+[ XCore ]
+
+- Fixed a memory corruption bug when instruction has a memory operand.
+
+
+[ Python ]
+
+- Support Virtualenv.
+- setup.py supports option --user if not in a virtualenv to allow for local usage.
+- Properly handle the destruction of Cs object in the case the shared library
+ was already unloaded.
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0.3: May 08th, 2015
+
+
+[ Library ]
+
+- Support to embed into Mac OS X kernel extensions.
+- Now it is possible to compile Capstone with older C compilers, such as
+ GCC 4.8 on Ubuntu 12.04.
+- Add "test_iter" to MSVC project.
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- All shifted instructions SHL, SHR, SAL, SAR, RCL, RCR, ROL & ROR now support
+ $1 as first operand in *AT&T* syntax (so we have "rcll $1, %edx" instead of
+ "rcll %edx").
+- CMPXCHG16B is a valid instruction with LOCK prefix.
+- Fixed a segfault on the input of 0xF3.
+
+
+[ Arm ]
+
+- BLX instruction modifies PC & LR registers.
+
+
+[ Sparc ]
+
+- Improved displacement decoding for sparc banching instructions.
+
+
+[ Python binding ]
+
+- Fix for Cython so it can properly initialize.
+- X86Op.avx_zero_mask now has c_bool type, but not c_uint8 type.
+- Properly support compile with Cygwin & install binding (setup.py).
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0.2: March 11th, 2015
+
+
+[ Library ]
+
+- On *nix, only export symbols that are part of the API (instead of all
+ the internal symbols).
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Do not consider 0xF2 as REPNE prefix if it is a part of instruction encoding.
+- Fix implicit registers read/written & instruction groups of some instructions.
+- More flexible on the order of prefixes, so better handle some tricky
+ instructions.
+- REPNE prefix can go with STOS & MOVS instructions.
+- Fix a compilation bug for X86_REDUCE mode.
+- Fix operand size of instructions with operand PTR []
+
+
+[ Arm ]
+
+- Fix a bug where arm_op_mem.disp is wrongly calculated (in DETAIL mode).
+- Fix a bug on handling the If-Then block.
+
+
+[ Mips ]
+
+- Sanity check for the input size for MIPS64 mode.
+
+
+[ MSVC ]
+
+- Compile capstone.dll with static runtime MSVCR built in.
+
+
+[ Python binding ]
+
+- Fix a compiling issue of Cython binding with gcc 4.9.
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0.1: February 03rd, 2015
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- Properly handle LOCK, REP, REPE & REPNE prefixes.
+- Handle undocumented immediates for SSE's (V)CMPPS/PD/SS/SD instructions.
+- Print LJUMP/LCALL without * as prefix for Intel syntax.
+- Handle REX prefix properly for segment/MMX related instructions (x86_64).
+- Instruction with length > 15 is consider invalid.
+- Handle some tricky encodings for instructions MOVSXD, FXCH, FCOM, FCOMP,
+ FSTP, FSTPNCE, NOP.
+- Handle some tricky code for some X86_64 instructions with REX prefix.
+- Add missing operands in detail mode for PUSH , POP , IN/OUT reg, reg
+- MOV32ms & MOV32sm should reference word rather than dword.
+
+
+[ Arm64 ]
+
+- BL & BLR instructions do not read SP register.
+- Print absolute (rather than relative) address for instructions B, BL,
+ CBNZ, ADR.
+
+
+[ Arm ]
+
+- Instructions ADC & SBC do not update flags.
+- BL & BLX do not read SP, but PC register.
+- Alias LDR instruction with operands [sp], 4 to POP.
+- Print immediate operand of MVN instruction in positive hexadecimal form.
+
+
+[ PowerPC ]
+
+- Fix some compilation bugs when DIET mode is enable.
+- Populate SLWI/SRWI instruction details with SH operand.
+
+
+[ Python binding ]
+
+- Fix a Cython bug when CsInsn.bytes returns a shorten array of bytes.
+- Fixed a memory leak for Cython disasm functions when we immaturely quit
+ the enumeration of disassembled instructions.
+- Fix a NULL memory access issue when SKIPDATA & Detail modes are enable
+ at the same time.
+- Fix a memory leaking bug when when we stop enumeration over the disassembled
+ instructions prematurely.
+- Export generic operand types & groups (CS_OP_xxx & CS_GRP_xxx).
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 3.0: November 19th, 2014
+
+[ API ]
+
+- New API: cs_disasm_iter & cs_malloc. See docs/README for tutorials.
+- Renamed cs_disasm_ex to cs_disasm (cs_disasm_ex is still supported, but
+ marked obsolete to be removed in future)
+- Support SKIPDATA mode, so Capstone can jump over unknown data and keep going
+ from the next legitimate instruction. See docs/README for tutorials.
+- More details provided in cs_detail struct for all architectures.
+- API version was bumped to 3.0.
+
+
+[ Bindings ]
+
+- Python binding supports Python3 (besides Python2).
+- Support Ocaml binding.
+- Java: add close() method to be used to deinitialize a Capstone object when
+ no longer use it.
+
+
+[ Architectures ]
+
+- New architectures: Sparc, SystemZ & XCore.
+- Important bugfixes for Arm, Arm64, Mips, PowerPC & X86.
+- Support more instructions for Arm, Arm64, Mips, PowerPC & X86.
+- Always expose absolute addresses rather than relative addresses (Arm, Arm64,
+ Mips, PPC, Sparc, X86).
+- Use common instruction operand types REG, IMM, MEM & FP across all
+ architectures (to enable cross-architecture analysis).
+- Use common instruction group types across all architectures (to enable
+ cross-architecture analysis).
+
+
+[ X86 ]
+
+- X86 engine is mature & handles all the malware tricks (that we are aware of).
+- Added a lot of new instructions (such as AVX512, 3DNow, etc).
+- Add prefix symbols X86_PREFIX_REP/REPNE/LOCK/CS/DS/SS/FS/GS/ES/OPSIZE/ADDRSIZE.
+- Print immediate in positive form & hexadecimal for AND/OR/XOR instructions.
+- More friendly disassembly for JMP16i (in the form segment:offset)
+
+
+[ Mips ]
+
+- Engine added supports for new hardware modes: Mips32R6 (CS_MODE_MIPS32R6) &
+ MipsGP64 (CS_MODE_MIPSGP64).
+- Removed the ABI-only mode CS_MODE_N64.
+- New modes CS_MODE_MIPS32 & CS_MODE_MIPS64 (to use instead of CS_MODE_32 &
+ CS_MODE_64).
+
+
+[ ARM ]
+
+- Support new mode CS_MODE_V8 for Armv8 A32 encodings.
+- Print immediate in positive form & hexadecimal for AND/ORR/EOR/BIC instructions
+
+
+[ ARM64 ]
+
+- Print immediate in hexadecimal for AND/ORR/EOR/TST instructions.
+
+
+[ PowerPC ]
+
+- Do not print a dot in front of absolute address.
+
+
+[ Other features ]
+
+- Support for Microsoft Visual Studio (so enable Windows native compilation).
+- Support CMake compilation.
+- Cross-compile for Android.
+- Build libraries/tests using XCode project
+- Much faster, while consuming less memory for all architectures.
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 2.1.2: April 3rd, 2014
+
+This is a stable release to fix some bugs deep in the core. There is no update
+to any architectures or bindings, so bindings version 2.1 can be used with this
+version 2.1.2 just fine.
+
+[ Core changes]
+
+- Support cross-compilation for all iDevices (iPhone/iPad/iPod).
+- X86: do not print memory offset in negative form.
+- Fix a bug in X86 when Capstone cannot handle short instruction.
+- Print negative number above -9 without prefix 0x (arm64, mips, arm).
+- Correct the SONAME setup for library versioning (Linux, *BSD, Solaris).
+- Set library versioning for dylib of OSX.
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 2.1.1: March 13th, 2014
+
+This is a stable release to fix some bugs deep in the core. There is no update
+to any architectures or bindings, so bindings version 2.1 can be used with this
+version 2.1.1 just fine.
+
+[ Core changes]
+
+- Fix a buffer overflow bug in Thumb mode (ARM). Some special input can
+ trigger this flaw.
+- Fix a crash issue when embedding Capstone into OSX kernel. This should
+ also enable Capstone to be embedded into other systems with limited stack
+ memory size such as Linux kernel or some firmwares.
+- Use a proper SONAME for library versioning (Linux).
+
+---------------------------------
+Version 2.1: March 5th, 2014
+
+[ API changes ]
+
+- API version has been bumped to 2.1.
+- Change prototype of 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 fix bugs.
+- 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.
+- New API version_bind() returns binding's version, which might differ from
+ the core's API version if the binding is out-of-date.
+- New API debug() returns information on Cython support, diet status & archs
+ compiled in.
+- Fixed some memory leaking bugs for Cython binding.
+- Fix a bug crashing Cython code when accessing @regs_read/regs_write/groups.
+- Support diet mode.
+
+
+[ Java binding ]
+
+- Fix some memory leaking bugs.
+- New API version() returns combined version.
+- Support diet mode.
+- Better support for detail option.
+
+
+[ Miscellaneous ]
+
+- make.sh now can 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.
+
+[ API changes ]
+
+- API version has been bumped to 2.0 (see cs_version() API)
+- New API cs_strerror(errno) returns a string describing error code given
+ in its only argument.
+- cs_version() now returns combined version encoding both major & minor versions.
+- New option CS_OPT_MODE allows to change engine’s mode at run-time with
+ cs_option().
+- New option CS_OPT_MEM allows to specify user-defined functions for dynamically
+ memory management used internally by Capstone. This is useful to embed Capstone
+ into special environments such as kernel or firware.
+- New API cs_support() can be used to check if this lib supports a particular
+ architecture (this is necessary since we now allow to choose which architectures
+ to compile in).
+- The detail option is OFF by default now. To get detail information, it should be
+ explicitly turned ON. The details then can be accessed using cs_insn.detail
+ pointer (to newly added structure cs_detail)
+
+
+[ Core changes ]
+
+- On memory usage, Capstone uses much less memory, but a lot faster now.
+- User now can choose which architectures to be supported by modifying config.mk
+ before compiling/installing.
+
+
+[ Architectures ]
+
+- 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: newly added.
+- Mips: support friendly register, so instead of output "srl $2,$1,0x1f",
+ we have "srl $v0,$at,0x1f".
+- X86: bug fixes.
+
+
+[ Python binding ]
+
+- Python binding is vastly improved in performance: around 3 ~ 4 times faster
+ than in 1.0.
+- Cython support has been added, which can further speed up over the default
+ pure Python binding (up to 30% in some cases)
+- Function cs_disasm_quick() & Cs.disasm() now use generator (rather than a list)
+ to return succesfully disassembled instructions. This improves the performance
+ and reduces memory usage.
+
+
+[ Java binding ]
+
+- Better performance & bug fixes.
+
+
+[ Miscellaneous ]
+
+- Fixed some installation issues with Gentoo Linux.
+- Capstone now can easily compile/install on all *nix, including Linux, OSX,
+ {Net, Free, Open}BSD & Solaris.
+
+----------------------------------
+[Version 1.0]: December 18th, 2013
+
+- Initial public release.
+