[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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