[ANNOUNCE] makedumpfile 1.7.9

HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Sun Apr 19 19:00:47 PDT 2026


Hi,

We're pleased to announce the release of makedumpfile 1.7.9.
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:
- Support for kernels up to v7.0 (x86_64)

Commits since 1.7.8:
eb42d63 [v1.7.9] Update version (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,
Kazu


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