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@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@ * What's new since version 0.5.15? - New security model. To install a systemtap kernel module, a user -must be one of the following: the root user; a member of the 'stapdev' -group; or a member of the 'stapusr' group. Members of the stapusr group can -only use modules located in the /lib/modules/VERSION/systemtap -directory (where VERSION is the output of "uname -r"). + must be one of the following: the root user; a member of the + 'stapdev' group; or a member of the 'stapusr' group. Members of the + stapusr group can only use modules located in the + /lib/modules/VERSION/systemtap directory (where VERSION is the + output of "uname -r"). + +- .statement("...@file:line") probes now apply heuristics to allow an + approximate match for the line number. This works similarly to gdb, + where a breakpoint placed on an empty source line is automatically + moved to the next statement. A silly bug that made many $target + variables inaccessible to .statement() probes was also fixed. * What's new since version 0.5.14? |