[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.7.8

YAMAZAKI MASAMITSU(山崎 真光) yamazaki-msmt at nec.com
Thu Oct 30 00:21:29 PDT 2025


Hi,

We're pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile 1.7.8.
Thank you everyone for your help to maintain the tool.

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

New features:
- Support for kernels up to v6.17 (x86_64)

Commits since 1.7.7:
65e0b54 [v1.7.8] Update version (YAMAZAKI Masamitsu)
a443eb6 [PATCH v2] dwarf_info: Fix an infinite recursion bug for Rust 
symbols (Tao Liu)
f1f3561 [PATCH] dwarf_info: Make get_symbol_addr_all() support kernel 
address randomization (Tao Liu)
65bf4c9 [PATCH v2] Fix a data race in multi-threading mode 
(--num-threads=N) (Tao Liu)
c1a9301 [PATCH] Add confidential VM unaccepted free pages support on 
Linux 6.16 and later (Zhiquan Li)
b86575b [PATCH] Mark start of 1.7.8 development phase with version 
1.7.7++ (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, to shorten the size of the dumpfile and the time of
creating it.
https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile

Thanks,
Masa


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