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authorTim Moore <timoore@redhat.com>2009-12-23 09:14:02 +0100
committerTim Moore <timoore@redhat.com>2009-12-23 09:14:02 +0100
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-* What's new
+* What's new in version 1.1
+
+- New tracepoint based tapset for memory subsystem.
- The loading of signed modules by staprun is no longer allowed for
ordinary, unprivileged users. This means that only root, members of
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See initscript/README.stap-server for details.
-- Any output line that starts with "ERROR", as in error("foo"), will
- promote a "Pass 5: run failed", and the return code is 1.
+- Some of the 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
+ run by the invoking user by default as opposed to servers started by the
+ stap-server initscript which are run by the user stap-server
+ by default. See stap-server(8) for more information.
+
+ You may continue to use these tools by adding $libexecdir/systemtap to
+ your path. You would need to do this, for example, if you are not root,
+ you want to start a compile server and you are not running systemtap from a
+ private installation. In this case you still need to use stap-start-server.
+
+- Any diagnostic output line that starts with "ERROR", as in
+ error("foo"), will promote a "Pass 5: run failed", and the return
+ code is 1.
- Systemtap now warns about global variables being referenced from other
script files. This aims to protect against unintended local-vs-global