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* What's new
+- A serious problem associated with user-space probing in shared libraries
+ was corrected, making it now possible to experiment with probe shared
+ libraries. Assuming dwarf debugging information is installed, use this
+ twist on the normal syntax:
+
+ probe process("/lib64/libc-2.8.so").function("....") { ... }
+
+ This would probe all threads that call into that library. Running
+ "stap -c CMD" or "stap -x PID" naturally restricts this to the target
+ command+descendants only.
+
+- For scripts that sometimes terminate with excessive "skipped" probes,
+ rerunning the script with "-t" (timing) will print more details about
+ the skippage reasons.
+
- Symbol tables and unwind (backtracing) data support were formerly
compiled in for all probed modules as identified by the script
(kernel; module("name"); process("file")) plus those listed by the