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1# Changelog
2
3All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
4
5This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
6
7# 0.4.5
8
9#### New Protocol Extensions
10
11- `TargetDescriptionXmlOverride` - Allow targets to override the target description XML file (`target.xml`) specified by `Target::Arch::target_description_xml`. This is useful in cases where a `Target` is expected to be generic over multiple architectures. [\#43](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/43) (with help from [DrChat](https://github.com/DrChat))
12
13# 0.4.4
14
15#### Bugfixes
16
17-   use `write!` instead of `writeln!` in `output!` macro [\#41](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/issues/41)
18
19# 0.4.3
20
21#### New Arch Implementations
22
23-   Implement `RegId` for Mips/Mips64 [\#38](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/38) ([starfleetcadet75](https://github.com/starfleetcadet75))
24-   Implement `RegId` for MSP430 [\#38](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/38) ([starfleetcadet75](https://github.com/starfleetcadet75))
25
26# 0.4.2
27
28#### Packaging
29
30-   Exclude test object files from package [\#37](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/37) ([keiichiw](https://github.com/keiichiw))
31
32# 0.4.1
33
34#### New Arch Implementations
35
36-   Implement `RegId` for x86/x86_64 [\#34](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/34) ([keiichiw](https://github.com/keiichiw))
37
38#### Bugfixes
39
40-   Switch fatal error signal from `T06` to `S05`,
41-   specify cfg-if 0.1.10 or later [\#33](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/33) ([keiichiw](https://github.com/keiichiw))
42    -   `cargo build` fails if cfg-if is 0.1.9 or older
43
44#### Misc
45
46-   Don't hard-code u64 when parsing packets (use big-endian byte arrays + late conversion to `Target::Arch::Usize`).
47
48# 0.4.0
49
50This version includes a _major_ API overhaul, alongside a slew of new features and general improvements. While updating to `0.4.0` will require some substantial code modifications, it's well worth the effort, as `0.4.0` is the safest, leanest, and most featureful release of `gdbstub` yet!
51
52Fun fact: Even after adding a _bunch_ of new features and bug-fixes, the in-tree `example_no_std` has remained just as small! The example on the `semver-fix-0.2.2` branch is `20251` bytes, while the example on `0.4.0` is `20246` bytes.
53
54#### API Changes
55
56-   Rewrite the `Target` API in terms of "Inlineable Dyn Extension Traits" (IDETs)
57    -   _By breaking up `Target` into smaller pieces which can be mixed-and-matched, it not only makes it easier to get up-and-running with `gdbstub`, but it also unlocks a lot of awesome internal optimizations:_
58        -   Substantially reduces binary-size footprint by guaranteeing dead-code-elimination of parsing/handling unimplemented GDB protocol features.
59        -   Compile-time enforcement that certain groups of methods are implemented in-tandem (e.g: `add_sw_breakpoint` and `remove_sw_breakpoint`).
60-   Update the `Target` API with support for non-fatal error handling.
61    -   _The old approach of only allowing \*fatal\* errors was woefully inadequate when dealing with potentially fallible operations such as reading from unauthorized memory (which GDB likes to do a bunch), or handling non-fatal `std::io::Error` that occur as a result of `ExtendedMode` operations. The new `TargetResult`/`TargetError` result is much more robust, and opens to door to supporting additional error handling extensions (such as LLDB's ASCII Errors)._
62-   Update the `Connection` trait with new methods (`flush` - required, `write_all`, `on_session_start`)
63-   Lift `Registers::RegId` to `Arch::RegId`, and introduce new temporary `RegIdImpl` solution for avoiding breaking API changes due to new `RegId` implementations (see [\#29](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/29))
64-   Mark various `RegId` enums as `#[non_exhaustive]`, allowing more registers to be added if need be.
65-   Error types are now marked as `#[non_exhaustive]`.
66
67#### New Protocol Extensions
68
69-   `ExtendedMode` - Allow targets to run new processes / attach to existing processes / restart execution.
70    -   Includes support for `set disable-randomization`, `set environment`, `set startup-with-shell`, and `set cwd` and `cd`.
71-   `SectionOffsets` - Get section/segment relocation offsets from the target. [\#30](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/30) ([mchesser](https://github.com/mchesser))
72    -   Uses the `qOffsets` packet under-the-hood.
73
74#### Bugfixes
75
76-   Fix issues related to selecting the incorrect thread after hitting a breakpoint in multi-threaded targets.
77-   Ensure that `set_nodelay` is set when using a `TcpStream` as a `Connection` (via the new `Connection::on_session_start` API)
78    -   _This should result in a noticeable performance improvement when debugging over TCP._
79
80#### Misc
81
82-   Removed `btou` dependency.
83-   Removed all `UTF-8` aware `str` handling code.
84    -   _GDB uses a pure ASCII protocol, so including code to deal with UTF-8 resulted in unnecessary binary bloat._
85
86# 0.3.0 (formerly 0.2.2)
87
88This version contains a few minor breaking changes from `0.2.1`. These are only surface-level changes, and can be fixed with minimal effort.
89
90Version `0.3.0` is identical to the yanked version `0.2.2`, except that it adheres to `cargo`'s [modified SemVer rule](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html#the-version-field) which states that the pre-`0.x.y` breaking changes should still bump the minor version.
91
92Thanks to [h33p](https://github.com/h33p) for reporting this issue ([\#27](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/issues/27))
93
94#### API Changes
95
96-   Update `Target::resume` API to replace raw `&mut dyn Iterator` with a functionally identical concrete `Actions` iterator.
97-   Mark the `StopReason` enum as `#[non_exhaustive]`, allowing further types to be added without being considered as an API breaking change.
98
99#### New Protocol Extensions
100
101-   Add `Target::read/write_register` support (to support single register accesses) [\#22](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/22) ([thomashk0](https://github.com/thomashk0))
102-   Add `StopReason::Signal(u8)` variant, to send arbitrary signal codes [\#19](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/19) ([mchesser](https://github.com/mchesser))
103
104#### New Arch Implementations
105
106-   Add partial RISC-V support (only integer ISA at the moment) [\#21](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/21) ([thomashk0](https://github.com/thomashk0))
107-   Add i386 (x86) support [\#23](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/23) ([jamcleod](https://github.com/jamcleod))
108-   Add 32-bit PowerPC support [\#25](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/25) ([jamcleod](https://github.com/jamcleod))
109
110# 0.2.1
111
112#### New Arch Implementations
113
114-   Add x86_86 support [\#11](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/11) ([jamcleod](https://github.com/jamcleod))
115-   Add Mips and Mips64 support [\#13](https://github.com/daniel5151/gdbstub/pull/13) ([starfleetcadet75](https://github.com/starfleetcadet75))
116
117#### Misc
118
119-   Documentation improvements
120    -   Document PC adjustment requirements in `Target::resume`
121    -   Add docs on handling non-fatal invalid memory reads/writes in `Target::read/write_addrs`.
122
123# 0.2.0
124
125_start of changelog_
126