[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.7.2

HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Wed Oct 19 18:00:03 PDT 2022


Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile 1.7.2.
Thank you everyone for your help to maintain the tool.

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

New features:
- LoongArch64 architecture support
- Support kernels up to v6.0 (x86_64)

Commits since 1.7.1:
9fefc68 [v1.7.2] Update version (Kazuhito Hagio)
e9ffebb [PATCH] README: Add a FAQ about public key and adjustments (Kazuhito Hagio)
a213694 [PATCH] xen: Fix wrong free issue in init_xen_crash_info() (Dietmar Hahn)
787a23e [PATCH] Add initial LoongArch64 support (Youling Tang)
36cdfd9 [PATCH] mips64: Replace hardcoded values with macros (Chetan Kankotiya)
09b5c87 [PATCH] Makefile: Avoid installing files in /etc (Guilherme G. Piccoli)
6d0d95e [PATCH] Avoid false-positive mem_section validation with vmlinux (Kazuhito Hagio)
4a4a2c2 [PATCH] Mark start of 1.7.2 development phase with version 1.7.1++ (Kazuhito Hagio)

Description of makedumpfile:
The makedumpfile is a tool for creating a dumpfile from /proc/vmcore
with filtering out unnecessary pages for analysis and compressing the
remaining pages, in order to shorten the size of the dumpfile and the
time of creating it.
https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile

Thanks,
Kazu


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