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  • v1.5.1 Changes

    December 09, 2020

    ➕ Added

    • DAP: Scope and variable requests, including call injection (#2111, #2158, #2160, #2184, #2185, @polinasok)
    • 👍 DAP: Support removing breakpoints and breakpoint conditions (#2188, @polinasok)
    • 👍 DAP: Support next, stepIn, stepOut requests (#2143, @polinasok)
    • DAP: Miscellaneous improvements (#2167, #2186, #2238, #2233, #2248, @eliben, @suzmue, @polinasok)
    • 💻 Command line flag -r to redirect standard file descriptors of the target process (#2146, #2222, @aarzilli)
    • -size flag for examinemem command (##2147, @hitzhangjie)
    • 💻 Command line flag to disable ASLR (#2202, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support for DWARFv5 loclists (#2097, @aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 👌 Support for Go version >= 1.15.4 (#2235, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix displaying AVX registers (#2139, @aarzilli)
    • Panic during next, step when there is no current goroutine (#2164, @chainhelen)
    • 🐧 Reading a deferred call's arguments on linux/arm64 (#2210, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Miscellaneous bug fixes (#2135, #2131, #2142, #2140, #2127, #2113, #2172, #2181, #2195, #2193, #2220, #2179, #2206, #2223, @aarzilli)

    🔄 Changed

    • 📦 dlv test switches to the package directory like go test does (#2128, @aarzilli)
    • Delve will no longer resolve symbolic links when searching for split debug_info if the executable path is not /proc/pid/exe (#2170, @aarzilli)
    • Starlark scripts can now be interrupted using Ctrl-C even if they are not making any API calls (#2149, @aarzilli)
    • 0️⃣ An error message will be displayed more prominently if a connection is rejected due to the --only-same-user flag (which is enabled by default) (#2211, @aarzilli)
    • Substitute path rules are applied to the argument of break and trace (#2213, @aarzilli)
    • 🖨 The output of xcode-select --print-path will be used to determine the location of debugserver instead of a hardcoded path (#2229, @aaronsky)
    • 👌 Improvements to documentation and error messages (#2148, #2154, #2196, #2228, @aurkenb, @pohzipohzi, @chainhelen, @andreimatei)

  • v1.5.0 Changes

    July 29, 2020

    ➕ Added

    • 👍 Go 1.15 support (#2011, @aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added the reload command that restarts the debugging session after recompiling the program (#1971, @alexsaezm)
    • 👍 Better support for printing pointers in the C part of a cgo program (#1997, @aarzilli)
    • 👍 Some support for DWARFv5 (#2090, @aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixed trace subcommand when the -p option is used (#2069, @chainhelen)
    • 🖨 Nil pointer dereference when printing tracepoints (#2071, @aarzilli)
    • 🖨 Internal debugger error when printing the goroutine list of a corrupted or truncated core file (#2070, @aarzilli)
    • 🔌 Do not corrupt the list of source files whenever a plugin (or dynamically loaded library) is loaded (#2075, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed current file/line reported after a segfault on macOS that was wrong under certain circumstances (#2081, @aarzilli)
    • 👍 Internal debugger error when reading global variables of types using unsupported debug_info features (#2105, #2106, #2110, @aarzilli, @b00f)

    🔄 Changed

    • 👌 Support for stack trace requests in DAP and other DAP improvements (#2056, #2093, #2099, #2103, @polinasok)
    • 📦 Delve will step inside a private runtime function call when it is already inside the runtime package (#2061, @aarzilli)
    • ⚡️ Updated cosiner/argv dependency to v0.1.0 (#2088, @gadelkareem)
    • 👌 Improvements to documentation and error messages (#2068, #2084, #2091, @aarzilli, @bhcleek, @letientai299)

  • v1.4.1 Changes

    May 22, 2020

    ➕ Added

    • 👌 Support for linux/386 added (@chainhelen)
    • 🚀 DAP server initial release (@polinasok, @eliben, @hyangah)
    • 🆕 New command examinemem (or x) allows users to examine raw memory (@chainhelen)
    • 🆕 New command display allows users to print value of an expression every time the program stops (@aarzilli)
    • 🆕 New flag --tty allows users to supply a TTY for the debugged program to use (@derekparker)
    • 👍 Coredump support added for Arm64 (@ossdev07)
    • 🖨 Ability to print goroutine labels (@aarzilli)
    • 👍 Allow printing registers for arbitrary stack frames (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Add disassemble-flavor to config to specify assembly syntax (@chainhelen)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 👍 Allow function calls on non-struct types (@derekparker)
    • 📜 Dwarf line parsing bug fix (@klemens-morgenstern)
    • 👌 Improved error message when building Delve on unsupported systems (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improved error message when trying to execute a binary in an invalid format for host system (@derekparker)
    • 🛠 Fix panic in Delve when using call command with some invalid input (@chainhelen)

    🔄 Changed

    • 👌 Improved output from dlv trace and trace REPL commands (@derekparker)
    • 🐎 Conditional breakpoint performance improvements (@aarzilli)
    • 🐎 Thread register loading performance improvement on gdbserial backend (@derekparker)
    • ⬇️ Reduce default log level to error (@aarzilli)
    • Linux memory read/write optimization using process_vm_read/write (@cuviper)
    • Terminal output of commands divided into categories (@aarzilli)
    • 👉 Use less permissive file settings on history file (@derekparker)
    • Autogenerated interface method calls wrappers now automatically stepped through (@aarzilli)

  • v1.4.0 Changes

    February 11, 2020

    ➕ Added

    • 👌 Support for Linux/ARM64 (#1733, #1780 @hengwu0, @tykcd996)
    • 👌 Support for Go 1.14 (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added an API call that can be used by Delve front-ends to map between package names and build paths (#1784, @aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added a field to goroutine objects returned by the API listing the goroutine's pprof labels (#1836, @nd)
    • 👍 Better support for inlined functions (#1717, #1742, #1807 @aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixed target program crash after step-instruction (#1738, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed miscellaneus bugs related to debugging Position Indepentent Executables and plugins (#1775, @aarzilli)
    • 🚚 Always remove breakpoints during detach (#1772, @hengwu0)
    • 🛠 Fixed Delve's exit status after the program has ended (#1781, @derekparker)
    • 🛠 Fixed nil pointer dereference in FunctionReturnLocations (#1789, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improved performance of goroutines -t command (#1830, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed occasional "Access Denied" error during attach on Windows (#1826, @alexbrainman)
    • 🛠 Fixed parsing of the disassemble command (#1837, @chainhelen)

    🔄 Changed

    • Check that local connections originate from the same User ID as the one that started Delve's instance (#1764, @stapelberg)
    • Mapping between package names and package paths is done using the DW_AT_go_package_name where available (#1757, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improvements to documentation and error messages (#1806, #1822, #1827, #1843, #1848, #1850, #1853 @spacewander, @chainhelen, @stigok)
    • 🔨 Miscellaneous code refactorings (#1746, #1777, #1834 @derekparker, @aarzilli)

  • v1.3.2 Changes

    October 21, 2019

    ➕ Added

    • 🆕 New example for starlark documentation (@aarzilli)
    • 👍 Allow calls to optimized functions (@aarzilli)
    • Option to bypass smart stacktraces (@aarzilli)
    • Ability to call method of embedded field (@chainhelen)
    • ➕ Added make unininstall command (@chainhelen)
    • 👉 User can re-record recorded targets (@aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fix version reporting (current latest tagged as 1.3.1, reporting 1.3.0) (@derekparker)
    • 🛠 Fix nil pointer deref on proc.GetG (@aarzilli)
    • 🏷 Better handling of DW_TAG_inlined_subroutine without debug_line info (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix panic on invalid config values (@TerrySolar)
    • 🛠 Fix debug_line state machine behavior with multi-sequence units (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix starlark iteration on maps > 64 entries (@alxn)
    • 📜 debug_frame parser fixed parsing augmentation (@chainhelen)
    • Round TLS segment size to its alignment (@heschik)

    🔄 Changed

    • 📚 Documentation bumped required Go version (@codekaup)
    • Disassemble now works without a selected goroutine (@aarzilli)
    • Correctly mark closure variables as shadowed (@aarzilli)
    • ⬆️ Bump CI to use Go 1.13 (@aarzilli)

  • v1.3.1

    August 27, 2019

  • v1.3.0 Changes

    August 27, 2019

    ➕ Added

    • 👍 Go 1.13 support (#1546, @aarzilli)
    • 💻 Starlark scripting language in the command line client (#1466, #1605, @aarzilli, @derekparker)
    • 🎉 Initial support for FreeBSD (#1480, @rayrapetyan)
    • 💻 Command line flag to continue process immediately after launch/attach (#1585, @briandealwis)
    • 🔧 Configuration option for the maximum recursion depth used when printing variables (#1626, @msaf1980)
    • next command now takes a numerical option specifying how many times it should be repeated (#1629, @jeremyfaller)
    • 🔊 Command line options to redirect logs to a file or file descriptor (#1525, @aarzilli)
    • Ability to read goroutine ancestors if they are enabled by passing GODEBUG="tracebackancestors=N" (requires Go >= 1.11) (#1514, #1570, @aarzilli)
    • 💻 Breakpoint autocompletion for the command line client (#1612, @qingyunha)
    • ➕ Added reverse step-instruction command for rr backend (#1596, @dpapastamos)
    • 👌 Support debugging programs using plugins on Linux with Go 1.12 or later (#1413, #1414, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improved function call injection (#1503, #1504, #1548, #1591, #1602, @aarzilli)
    • 🆕 New variable flag to mark variables that have a fake or no-longer-valid address, because they are either stored in registers or in a stack frame that has been removed from the stack (#1619, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support relative file paths when specifying breakpoint locations (#1478, @chainhelen)
    • GetVersion API response now reports currently used backend (#1641, @aarzilli)
    • so as alias for stepout (#1646, @stmuk)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixed values of registers smaller than 64bit (#1583, @derekparker)
    • 🛠 Fixed reading maps with removed entries in Go 1.12 (#1532, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed possible crash on Linux caused by function call injection (#1538, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed errors reading DWARF sections (#1574, #1582, #1603, @aarzilli)
    • Prompt to shutdown headless instance after the target process has exited (#1621, @briandealwis)
    • 🚦 Stacktraces when a SIGSEGV (or other signal) happens during a cgo call (#1647, @aarzilli)
    • Error restarting program with next/step/stepout under some circumstances (#1657, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Other bug fixes (#1487, #1488, #1490, #1500, #1497, #1469, #1553, #1595, #1594, #1620, #1622, #1624, #1637, #1664, #1665, #1668, @derekparker, @aarzilli, @dpapastamos, @pjot726)

    🔄 Changed

    • Delve will refuse to work with a version of Go that is either too old or too new (can be disabled with --check-go-version=false) (#1533, @aarzilli)
    • 🖨 When the value of a variable is determined to be a symbolic constant the numerical value of the symbolic constant will also be printed (#1530, @aarzilli)
    • Catch fatal runtime errors (such as the deadlock detector triggering) automatically (#1502, @aarzilli)
    • Replaced glide (which we weren't using anymore) with go mod vendor in make script (#1606, @derekparker)
    • ✂ Removed support for reading interfaces in older versions (prior to 1.7) of Go (#1501, @aarzilli)
    • ✂ Removed support for location expression ":0" and associated API functionality (#1588, @aarzilli)
    • Calling an unknown method through the JSON-RPC API will now return an error while previously it would simply be ignored (#1571, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improved documentation and error messages (#1492, #1520, #1524, #1561, #1562, #1556, #1559, #1567, #1638, #1649, #1662, @derekparker, @Ladicle, @qaisjp, @justinclift, @tschundler, @two, @aarzilli, @dr2chase)

  • v1.2.0 Changes

    February 19, 2019

    ➕ Added

    • 👍 Go 1.12 support
    • 👌 Improved trace command to show return values and trace pre-built executables or tests (#1379, #1380, #1381, @derekparker)
    • 🏁 Windows Minidump support (#1386, #1387, #1402, @aarzilli)
    • 👍 Better support for split DWARF symbol files (#1405, #1420, @derekparker, @slp)
    • 🍎 Function call support on macOS (#1324, @derekparker)
    • deferred command to view the arguments of a deferred call (#1285, #1265, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support for debugging Position Independent Executables (#1358, @aarzilli)
    • Type conversions of byte and rune arrays into strings (#1372, @chainhelen)
    • 🔧 Configuration option (source-list-line-color) to change the color of line numbers in listings (#1364, @Russtopia)
    • 🆕 New expression iface.(data) to access the concrete value of interface variable iface, without having to write a full type assertion (#1340, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support for specifying multiple source files as arguments for debug, trace and test (#1339, @chainhelen)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 👉 Make edit command work with vim and neovim (#1451, @the4thamigo-uk)
    • 👌 Support Linux kernels prior to 2.6.34 (i.e. without PTRACE_GETREGSET) (#1435, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed substitute-path configuration option on Windows (#1418, @zavla)
    • 👍 Better performance for ListGoroutines API call (#1440, #1408, @slp, @aarzilli)
    • 👍 Better performance when loading the value of very large sparse maps (#1392, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Other bug fixes (#1377, #1384, #1429, #1434, #1445, @aarzilli)

    🔄 Changed

    • 🔄 Changes to where the configuration is stored, conforming to XDG Base Directory Specification with fallbacks to the current directory when calls to user.Current fail (#1455 @GregorioMartinez, @acshekhara1)
    • 🚚 Project moved from github.com/derekparker/delve to github.com/go-delve/delve (@derekparker)
    • Switched dependency management to go.mod (@aarzilli, @derekparker, @zavla)
    • 🆕 New build scripts and support building on macOS without the native backend (@aarzilli, @kevin-cantwell)
    • Tolerate corrupted memory when reading the goroutine list (#1354, @aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improved documentation and error messages (@sbromberger, @aarzilli, @derekparker, @chainhelen, @dishmaev, @altimac)

  • v1.1.0 Changes

    August 16, 2018

    ➕ Added

    • 👍 Go 1.11 support (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improvements to Delve logging (@aarzilli, @derekparker)
    • 👉 Show global variables in disassembly (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support for inlined calls (@aarzilli, @derekparker, @jaym)
    • 👌 Support dwz compressed debug symbols (@slp)
    • 👌 Support for debug info in a separate file (@slp)
    • 🐧 Let target process access the tty when running in headless mode on linux/native and darwin/gdbserial (@aarzilli)
    • Commands up and down (@yasushi-saito)
    • 🖨 Flag to print stacktrace of all goroutines (@acshekhara1)
    • Command edit (@benc153)
    • 👍 Allow headless instances to keep running without a connected client (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Add StartLoc to api.Goroutine containing the starting location of each goroutine (@aarzilli)
    • 👍 Preliminary support for function call injection with Go 1.11 (@aarzilli)
    • Ability to read list of deferred calls of a goroutine (@aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixed crashes when configuration file can not be created (@derekparker, @yuval-k, @aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed reported location of the go statement of goroutines (@derekparker)
    • 👍 Allow evaluation of constants specified without the full package path (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed some integer arithmetics bugs in proc (@functionary)
    • 🔧 Respect load configuration after reslicing a map (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed race condition between Halt and process death in the linux native backend (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support core files generated by gdb (@psanford)
    • 🛠 Fixed evaluation of breakpoint conditions containing a single boolean variable (@aarzilli)
    • Miscellaneous bugs in the debug_line state machine (@aarzilli)

    🔄 Changed

    • ✂ Removed redundant/obsolete methods of proc.Process Halt and Kill, general cleanup of native backends (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improved documentation (@giuscri, @jsoref, @Carpetsmoker, @PatrickSchuster, @aarzilli, @derekparker, @ramya-rao-a, @dlsniper)
    • ↪ Workaround in the gdbserial backend for broken version 902 of debugserver (@aarzilli)
    • 🔄 Changed operators || and && to short-circuit the evaluation of their arguments, like in Go (@aarzilli)
    • Mark shadowed arguments as shadowed (@aarzilli)
    • 👍 Allow syntax "package/path".varname to specify the full package path of a variable, in case disambiguating between multiple packages with the same name is necessary (@aarzilli)

  • v1.0.0 Changes

    February 20, 2018

    ➕ Added

    • 🖨 Print DWARF location expression with whatis (@aarzilli)
    • Use DW_AT_producer to warn about optimized code (@aarzilli)
    • 👉 Use constants to describe variable value (@aarzilli)
    • Use DW_AT_decl_line to determine variable visibility (@aarzilli)
    • -offsets flag for stack command (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support CGO stacktraces (@aarzilli)
    • Disable optimizations in C compiler (@aarzilli)
    • 🔧 --output flag to configure output binary (@Carpetsmoker)
    • Support DW_OP_piece, DW_OP_regX, DW_OP_fbreg (@aarzilli)
    • Support DW_LNE_define_file (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support more type casts (@aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • Disable file path case normalization on OSX (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Support Mozilla RR 5.1.0 (@aarzilli)
    • Terminal no longer crashes when process exits during next (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix TestCoreFPRegisters on Go 1.9 (@aarzilli)
    • Avoid scanning system stack if it's not executing CGO (@aarzilli)
    • Locspec "+0" should always evaluate to the current PC (@aarzilli)
    • Handle DW_LNE_end_of_sequence correctly (@aarzilli)
    • Top level interface variables may have 0 address (@aarzilli)
    • 🏷 Handle DW_TAG_subprogram with a nochildren abbrev (@aarzilli)
    • StepBreakpoint handling (@aarzilli)

    🔄 Changed

    • 📚 Documentation improvements (@grahamking)
    • ✂ Removed limitation of exit notifications (@dlsniper)
    • 👉 Use go env GOPATH for install path
    • ✅ Disable test caching (@aarzilli)
    • 🏗 Disable -a and use all= for Go 1.10 building (@aarzilli)
    • Automatically deref interfaces on member access (@aarzilli)
    • Replace all uses of gosymtab/gopclntab with .debug_line section (@aarzilli)