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  <div class="section" id="release-history">
<h1>Release history<a class="headerlink" href="#release-history" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-7">
<h2>macholib 1.7<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-7" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Added support for ARM64, LC_ENCRYPTION_INFO_64 and LC_LINKER_OPTION</p>
<p>Patch by Matthias Ringwald.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Load commands now have a &#8220;describe&#8221; method that returns more information
about the command.</p>
<p>Patch by David Dorsey.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The MAGIC value in the header was always represented in the native
byte order, instead of as the value read from the binary.</p>
<p>Patch by David Dorsey.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Added various new constants to &#8220;macholib.mach_o&#8221;.</p>
<p>Patch by David Dorsey.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-6-1">
<h2>macholib 1.6.1<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-6-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>?</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-6">
<h2>macholib 1.6<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-6" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Add support for <a class="reference external" href="mailto:'&#37;&#52;&#48;loader_path">'<span>&#64;</span>loader_path</a>&#8216; link command in
macholib.dyld:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Added function <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macholib.dyld.dyld_loader_search</span></tt></li>
<li>This function is used by <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macholib.dyld.dyld_find</span></tt>,
and that function now has an new (optional) argument
with the path to the loader.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Also add support for <a class="reference external" href="mailto:'&#37;&#52;&#48;loader_path">'<span>&#64;</span>loader_path</a>&#8216; to macholib.MachoGraph,
using the newly added <a class="reference external" href="mailto:'&#37;&#52;&#48;loader_path">'<span>&#64;</span>loader_path</a>&#8216; support in the
dyld module.</p>
<p>Due to this suppport the <em>macho_standalone</em> tool can
now rewrite binaries that contain an <a class="reference external" href="mailto:'&#37;&#52;&#48;loader_path">'<span>&#64;</span>loader_path</a>&#8216; load
command.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-5-2">
<h2>macholib 1.5.2<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-5-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Issue #93: Show the name of the affected file in the exception message
for Mach-O headers that are too large to relocate.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-5-1">
<h2>macholib 1.5.1<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-5-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>There were no &#8216;classifiers&#8217; in the package metadata due to
a bug in setup.py.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-5">
<h2>macholib 1.5<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-5" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>macholib 1.5 is a minor feature release</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">No longer use 2to3 to provide Python 3 support</p>
<p>As a side-effect of this macholib no longer supports
Python 2.5 and earlier.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Adds suppport for some new macho load commands</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fix for py3k problem in macho_standalone.py</p>
<p>Patch by Guanqun Lu.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Fix for some issues in macho_dump.py</p>
<p>Patch by Nam Nguyen</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">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.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Issue #6: Fix for LC_ENCRYPTION_INFO linker commands</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Use the mach header information to print the cpu type of a
binary, instead of trying to deduce that from pointer width
and endianness.</p>
<p>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.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The mapping <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macholib.macho_dump.ARCH_MAP</span></tt> is undocumented
and no longer used by macholib itself. It will be removed
in the next release.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The command-line tools <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macho_find</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macho_dump</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macho_standalone</span></tt> are deprecated. Use &#8220;python -mmacholib&#8221;
instead. That is:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>$ python -mmacholib dump /usr/bin/grep

$ python -mmacholib find ~

$ python -mmacholib standalone myapp.app
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This makes it clearer which version of the tools are used.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-4-3">
<h2>macholib 1.4.3<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-4-3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>macholib 1.4.3 is a minor feature release</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Added strings for &#8216;x86_64&#8217; and &#8216;ppc64&#8217; to
macholib.mach_o.CPU_TYPE_NAMES.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">macho_find and macho_dump were broken in the 1.4.2 release</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">added &#8216;macholib.util.NOT_SYSTEM_FILES&#8217;, a list of
files that aren&#8217;t system path&#8217;s even though they are
located in system locations.</p>
<p>Needed to work around a bug in PySide (see issue #32 in the
py2app tracker)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-4-2">
<h2>macholib 1.4.2<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-4-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>macholib 1.4.2 is a minor bugfix release</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The support for new load commands that was added in 1.4.1
contained a typo that caused problems on OSX 10.7 (Lion).</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-4-1">
<h2>macholib 1.4.1<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-4-1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>macholib 1.4.1 is a minor feature release</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Add support for a number of new MachO load commands that were added
during the lifetime of OSX 10.6: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LC_LOAD_UPWARD_DYLIB</span></tt>,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LC_VERSION_MIN_IPHONEOS</span></tt> and
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LC_FUNCTION_STARTS</span></tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-4">
<h2>macholib 1.4<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>macholib 1.4 is a feature release</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Documentation is now generated using <a class="reference external" href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx">sphinx</a>
and can be viewed at &lt;<a class="reference external" href="http://packages.python.org/macholib">http://packages.python.org/macholib</a>&gt;.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The repository has moved to bitbucket</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">There now is a testsuite</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Private functionality inside modules was renamed to
a name starting with an underscore.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">if this change affects your code you are relying on undefined
implementation features, please stop using private functions.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The basic packable types in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macholib.ptypes</span></tt> 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).</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="50%" />
<col width="50%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><strong>Old name</strong></th>
<th class="head"><strong>New name</strong></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="row-even"><td>p_byte</td>
<td>p_int8</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>p_ubyte</td>
<td>p_uint8</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>p_short</td>
<td>p_int16</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>p_ushort</td>
<td>p_uint16</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>p_int</td>
<td>p_int32</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>p_uint</td>
<td>p_uint32</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>p_long</td>
<td>p_int32</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>p_ulong</td>
<td>p_uint32</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>p_longlong</td>
<td>p_int64</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>p_ulonglong</td>
<td>p_uint64</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Macholib.ptypes.p_ptr</span></tt> is no longer present as it had an unclear
definition and isn&#8217;t actually used in the codebase.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">The semantics of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dyld.dyld_default_search</span></tt> were changed a bit,
it now first searches the framework path (if appropriate) and then
the linker path, irrespective of the value of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">DYLD_FALLBACK*</span></tt>
environment variables.</p>
<p>Previous versions would change the search order when those variables
was set, which is odd and doesn&#8217;t correspond with the documented
behaviour of the system dyld.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">It is once again possible to install using python2.5</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">The source distribution includes all files, this was broken
due to the switch to mercurial (which confused setuptools)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-3">
<h2>macholib 1.3<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-3" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>macholib 1.3 is a feature release.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Experimental Python 3.x support</p>
<p>This version contains lightly tested support for Python 3.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="macholib-1-2-2">
<h2>macholib 1.2.2<a class="headerlink" href="#macholib-1-2-2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>macholib 1.2.2 is a bugfix release.</p>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Macholib should work better with 64-bit code
(patch by Marc-Antoine Parent)</li>
</ul>
</div>
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