2 - Alpha release 1 for Ksplice 0.9.8
5 - Fixed a bug where Ksplice relocations were sometimes written pointing
6 to the middle of patched sections
7 - Fixed a Makefile bug where the Ksplice core module was compiled twice
8 - Renamed or reorganized several data structures in the Ksplice kernel code
9 - Changed the Ksplice module names from primary/helper to old_code/new_code
12 - Fixed a Makefile bug that prevented the initial prebuild from succeeding
13 - Documented the ksplice-create --series, --git, and --build-modules options
14 - Added support for changing CRCs of exported symbols
15 - Added pre-post matching of altinstructions and other table sections
16 - Fixed a build failure due to depmod when using a kbuild output directory
19 - Added support for building updates from Git commits in ksplice-create
20 - Prevent reversing Ksplice updates that have been partially cold applied
23 - Added support for patching kernels built in a separate Kbuild output
25 - Added additional metadata to the Ksplice update tarballs
26 - Updated Ksplice for kernel 2.6.28
29 - Added hooks for calling functions at various points during the update process
30 - Added support for applying an update only to loaded target modules
31 - Added support for building updated target modules along with a Ksplice update
32 - Added run-pre matching of the bug table, exception table, and exported
34 - Improved robustness of the stack check with respect to optimized tail calls
35 - Fixed several bugs in the run-pre matching disassembly code
36 - Added patching of rodata sections that did not change in size
37 - Added patching of bug table entries whose line numbers changed
38 - Added an experimental API for shadow data structures
41 - Added run-pre matching of string sections
42 - Fixed safety_record handling for patch reversals
43 - Improved performance substantially in both userspace and kernelspace
44 - Added support for patching kernels whose text is mapped read-only
45 - Added support for patching compilation units involving markers
46 - Improved the udis86 disassembler's support for disassembling the kernel
49 - Replaced objdiff with an improved matching algorithm in objmanip keep-primary
50 - Added support for moving functions between compilation units
51 - Various safety improvements
54 - Added support for ARM architecture (requires an -ffunction-sections kernel)
55 - Rewrote the relocation handling code to ease porting to other architectures
56 - Modified the update build system so that it uses the kernel build system
57 - Switched the module control interface from /proc to /sys
58 - Switched the preferred debugging interface from printk to debugfs
59 - Restructured the kernel code to make it easier to merge Ksplice into Linux
60 - Simplified ksplice-create by moving all ELF manipulation to objmanip
61 - Added libudis86 for enhanced run-pre matching
62 - Added support for automatically modifying the exported symbol table
63 - Various safety improvements
66 - Updated the nop table for binutils 2.18
67 - Improved relocation handling on x86-64
70 - Removed some compiler warnings
73 - Added a workaround for Fedora System.map problem
74 - Improved the page table code
75 - Improved kernel stack check debugging
78 - Fixed architecture detection on ASP Linux
81 - Improved kernel stack check
84 - Improved kernel stack check
87 - Fixed 2.6.25 init_mm problem