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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1005
2009-01-27 00:36:52
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Name        : elfutils
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 0.139
Release     : 1.fc10
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/
Summary     : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects
Description :
Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker),
nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the
section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding
symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint
(to check for well-formed ELF files).

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Update Information:

This update fixes various minor bugs in elfutils libraries and tools.  It also
adds support for automatic gzip or bzip2 decompression of ELF files to libdwfl
and the tools that use it.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan 23 2009 Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> - 0.139-1
- Update to 0.139
  - libcpu: Add Intel SSE4 disassembler support
  - readelf: Implement call frame information and exception handling dumping.
             Add -e option.  Enable it implicitly for -a.
  - elflint: Check PT_GNU_EH_FRAME program header entry.
  - libdwfl: Support automatic gzip/bzip2 decompression of ELF files. (#472136)
* Thu Jan  1 2009 Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> - 0.138-2
- Fix libelf regression.
* Wed Dec 31 2008 Roland McGrath <rol...@redhat.com> - 0.138-1
- Update to 0.138
  - Install <elfutils/version.h> header file for applications to use in
    source version compatibility checks.
  - libebl: backend fixes for i386 TLS relocs; backend support for NT_386_IOPERM
  - libcpu: disassembler fixes (#469739)
  - libdwfl: bug fixes (#465878)
  - libelf: bug fixes
  - eu-nm: bug fixes for handling corrupt input files (#476136)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #465878 - crash on processing empty archive
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465878
  [ 2 ] Bug #469739 - eu-objdump: Assertion failed while disassembling 
libavcodec.so.52
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469739
  [ 3 ] Bug #476136 - Various SEGVs and ABRTs on binutils testcases
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476136
  [ 4 ] Bug #472136 - RFE: handle compressed kernel object files for 
systemtap-style offline searches
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472136
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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