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authorDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2010-02-02 08:28:16 -0500
committerDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2010-02-02 08:28:16 -0500
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+* What's new
+- In order to limit potential impact from future security problems,
+ the stap-server process does not permit its being launched as root.
+
+- New : systemtap now supports probes for Hardware Breakpoints on x86
+ and x86_64. For syntax details, see man page for stapprobes.
+
* What's new in version 1.1
- New tracepoint based tapset for memory subsystem.
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See initscript/README.stap-server for details.
-- Some of the of the compile server client, server and certificate
- management tools have been moved from $bindir to $libexecdir/systemtap.
+- Some of the compile server client, server and certificate management
+ tools have been moved from $bindir to $libexecdir/systemtap.
You should use the new stap-server script or the stap-server initscript
for server management where possible. The stap-server script provides the same
functionality as the stap-server initscript except that the servers are