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diff --git a/python/macholib/doc/changelog.rst b/python/macholib/doc/changelog.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d73299f91 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/macholib/doc/changelog.rst @@ -0,0 +1,242 @@ +Release history +=============== + +macholib 1.7 +------------ + +* Added support for ARM64, LC_ENCRYPTION_INFO_64 and LC_LINKER_OPTION + + Patch by Matthias Ringwald. + +* Load commands now have a "describe" method that returns more information + about the command. + + Patch by David Dorsey. + +* The MAGIC value in the header was always represented in the native + byte order, instead of as the value read from the binary. + + Patch by David Dorsey. + +* Added various new constants to "macholib.mach_o". + + Patch by David Dorsey. + +macholib 1.6.1 +-------------- + +* ? + +macholib 1.6 +------------ + +* Add support for '@loader_path' link command in + macholib.dyld: + + - Added function ``macholib.dyld.dyld_loader_search`` + + - This function is used by ``macholib.dyld.dyld_find``, + and that function now has an new (optional) argument + with the path to the loader. + +* Also add support for '@loader_path' to macholib.MachoGraph, + using the newly added '@loader_path' support in the + dyld module. + + Due to this suppport the *macho_standalone* tool can + now rewrite binaries that contain an '@loader_path' load + command. + + +macholib 1.5.2 +-------------- + +* Issue #93: Show the name of the affected file in the exception message + for Mach-O headers that are too large to relocate. + + +macholib 1.5.1 +-------------- + +* There were no 'classifiers' in the package metadata due to + a bug in setup.py. + +macholib 1.5 +-------------- + +macholib 1.5 is a minor feature release + +* No longer use 2to3 to provide Python 3 support + + As a side-effect of this macholib no longer supports + Python 2.5 and earlier. + +* Adds suppport for some new macho load commands + +* Fix for py3k problem in macho_standalone.py + + Patch by Guanqun Lu. + +* Fix for some issues in macho_dump.py + + Patch by Nam Nguyen + +* Issue #10: Fix for LC_DATA_IN_CODE linker commands, without + this fix py2app cannot build application bundles when + the source binaries have been compiled with Xcode 4.5. + +* Issue #6: Fix for LC_ENCRYPTION_INFO linker commands + +* Use the mach header information to print the cpu type of a + binary, instead of trying to deduce that from pointer width + and endianness. + + Changed the code because of issue #6, in which a user tries to + dump a iOS binary which results in bogus output in the previous + releases. + +* The mapping ``macholib.macho_dump.ARCH_MAP`` is undocumented + and no longer used by macholib itself. It will be removed + in the next release. + + +* The command-line tools ``macho_find``, ``macho_dump`` and + ``macho_standalone`` are deprecated. Use "python -mmacholib" + instead. That is:: + + $ python -mmacholib dump /usr/bin/grep + + $ python -mmacholib find ~ + + $ python -mmacholib standalone myapp.app + + This makes it clearer which version of the tools are used. + +macholib 1.4.3 +-------------- + +macholib 1.4.3 is a minor feature release + +* Added strings for 'x86_64' and 'ppc64' to + macholib.mach_o.CPU_TYPE_NAMES. + +* macho_find and macho_dump were broken in the 1.4.2 release + +* added 'macholib.util.NOT_SYSTEM_FILES', a list of + files that aren't system path's even though they are + located in system locations. + + Needed to work around a bug in PySide (see issue #32 in the + py2app tracker) + + + +macholib 1.4.2 +-------------- + +macholib 1.4.2 is a minor bugfix release + +* The support for new load commands that was added in 1.4.1 + contained a typo that caused problems on OSX 10.7 (Lion). + +macholib 1.4.1 +-------------- + +macholib 1.4.1 is a minor feature release + +Features: + +- Add support for a number of new MachO load commands that were added + during the lifetime of OSX 10.6: ``LC_LOAD_UPWARD_DYLIB``, + ``LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX``, ``LC_VERSION_MIN_IPHONEOS`` and + ``LC_FUNCTION_STARTS``. + +macholib 1.4 +------------- + +macholib 1.4 is a feature release + +Features: + +- Documentation is now generated using `sphinx <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx>`_ + and can be viewed at <http://packages.python.org/macholib>. + +- The repository has moved to bitbucket + +- There now is a testsuite + +- Private functionality inside modules was renamed to + a name starting with an underscore. + + .. note:: if this change affects your code you are relying on undefined + implementation features, please stop using private functions. + +- The basic packable types in ``macholib.ptypes`` were renamed to better + represent the corresponding C type. The table below lists the old + an new names (the old names are still available, but are deprecated and + will be removed in a future release). + + +--------------+--------------+ + | **Old name** | **New name** | + +==============+==============+ + | p_byte | p_int8 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_ubyte | p_uint8 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_short | p_int16 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_ushort | p_uint16 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_int | p_int32 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_uint | p_uint32 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_long | p_int32 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_ulong | p_uint32 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_longlong | p_int64 | + +--------------+--------------+ + | p_ulonglong | p_uint64 | + +--------------+--------------+ + + ``Macholib.ptypes.p_ptr`` is no longer present as it had an unclear + definition and isn't actually used in the codebase. + + +Bug fixes: + +- The semantics of ``dyld.dyld_default_search`` were changed a bit, + it now first searches the framework path (if appropriate) and then + the linker path, irrespective of the value of the ``DYLD_FALLBACK*`` + environment variables. + + Previous versions would change the search order when those variables + was set, which is odd and doesn't correspond with the documented + behaviour of the system dyld. + +- It is once again possible to install using python2.5 + +- The source distribution includes all files, this was broken + due to the switch to mercurial (which confused setuptools) + +macholib 1.3 +------------ + +macholib 1.3 is a feature release. + +Features: + +- Experimental Python 3.x support + + This version contains lightly tested support for Python 3. + +macholib 1.2.2 +-------------- + +macholib 1.2.2 is a bugfix release. + +Bug fixes: + +- Macholib should work better with 64-bit code + (patch by Marc-Antoine Parent) |