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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -* 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 @@ -18,8 +20,23 @@ 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 |