[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.6.9 is available

[HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁)]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile-1.6.9.
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this release.
Your comments/patches are always welcome.

Download:
The latest makedumpfile can be downloaded from the following URL.
https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile/releases

Main new features: 
- Support for recent arm64 kernels and 52-bit kernel VA
- Support for mips64 architecture
- Add --dry-run option and report of write byte size
- Support for newer kernels up to v5.12 (x86_64)

decc5ef97412 [PATCH] Support newer kernels up to v5.12 (Kazuhito Hagio)
a8250642a4ff [PATCH] x86_64: fix a use-after-free bug in -e option (Kazuhito Hagio)
974a507447e8 [PATCH] mips64: Retrieve MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS from vmcoreinfo (Youling Tang)
f8348d3efa53 [PATCH] fix build on sparc64 (Fabrice Fontaine)
0ef2ca6c9fa2 [PATCH] Show write byte size in report messages (Kazuhito Hagio)
a0216b678a95 [PATCH 3/3] arm64: support flipped VA and 52-bit kernel VA (Kazuhito Hagio)
67d0e1d68f28 [PATCH 2/3] arm64: Make use of NUMBER(VA_BITS) in vmcoreinfo (Kazuhito Hagio)
d8b701796f04 [PATCH 1/3] Use vmcoreinfo note in /proc/kcore for --mem-usage option (Kazuhito Hagio)
7f185d29aa17 [PATCH v2] Add initial mips64 support (Youling Tang)
01b4bd354c4a [PATCH] Makefile: Fix a compile error on Debian with pthread (Jiang Wang)
6f3e75a558ed [PATCH 2/2] Add shorthand --show-stats option to show report stats (Julien Thierry)
3422e1d6bc35 [PATCH 1/2] Add --dry-run option to prevent writing the dumpfile (Julien Thierry)
54aec3878b3f [PATCH] make use of 'uts_namespace.name' offset in VMCOREINFO (Alexander Egorenkov)
44b073b7ec46 [PATCH 2/2] printk: use committed/finalized state values (John Ogness)
c617ec633392 [PATCH 1/2] printk: add support for lockless ringbuffer (John Ogness)

Thanks,
Kazu