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  • v1.2.0

    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

    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

    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)

  • v1.0.0-rc.2

    October 16, 2017

    ➕ Added

    • 🖨 Automatically print panic reason for unrecovered panics (@aarzilli)
    • Propagate frame offset to clients (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added vim-delve plugin to documentation (@sebdah)
    • 👍 Floating point register support in core files (@aarzilli)
    • 👍 Go 1.9 support, including lexical block support (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added whatis and config commands (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Add FrameOffset field to api.Stackframe (@aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 👍 Better interoperation with debugserver on macOS (@aarzilli / @dlsniper)
    • 🛠 Fix behavior of next, step and stepout with recursive functions (@aarzilli)
    • 📜 Parsing of maps with zero sized values (@aarzilli)
    • 📚 Typo in the documentation of types command (@custa)
    • ✅ Data races in tests (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed SetBreakpoint in native and gdbserial to return the breakpoint if it already exists (@dlsniper)
    • Return breakpoint if it already exists (@dlsniper)
    • Collect breakpoint information on exit from next/stepout/step (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed install instructions (@jacobvanorder)
    • 👉 Make headless server quit when the client disconnects (@aarzilli)
    • Store the correct concrete value for interface variables (previously we would always have a pointer type, even when the concrete value was not a pointer) (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix interface and slice equality with nil (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix file:line location specs when relative paths are in .debug_line (@hyangah)
    • 🛠 Fix behavior of next/step/stepout in several edge-cases (invalid return addresses, no current goroutine, after process exists, inside unknown code, inside assembly files) (@aarzilli)
    • 👉 Make sure the debugged executable we generated is deleted after exit (@alexbrainman)
    • ✅ Make sure rr trace directories are deleted when we delete the executable and after tests (@aarzilli)
    • Return errors for commands sent after the target process exited instead of panicing (@derekparker)
    • 🛠 Fixed typo in clear-checkpoint documentation (@iamzhout)

    🔄 Changed

    • Switched from godeps to glide (@derekparker)
    • 👍 Better performance of linux native backend (@aarzilli)
    • Collect breakpoints information if necessary after a next, step or stepout command (@aarzilli)
    • Autodereference escaped variables (@aarzilli)
    • 👉 Use runtime.tlsg to determine G struct offset (@heschik)
    • 🏁 Use os.StartProcess to implement Launch on windows (@alexbrainman)
    • Escaped variables are dereferenced instead of being reported as &v (@aarzilli)
    • Report errors when we fail to load the executable on attach (@aarzilli)
    • 💻 Distinguish between nil and empty slices and maps both in the API and on the command line interface (@aarzilli)
    • Skip deferred functions on next and stepout (as long as they are not called through a panic) (@aarzilli)

  • v1.0.0-rc.1

    May 06, 2017

    ➕ Added

    • ➕ Added support for core files (@heschik)
    • ➕ Added support for lldb-server and debugserver as backend, using debugserver by default on macOS (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added support for Mozilla RR as backend (@aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • Detach should correctly kill child process we created (@aarzilli)
    • Correctly return error when reading/writing memory of exited process (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix race condition in test (@hyangah)
    • 🛠 Fix version extraction to support proposals (@allada)
    • 🛠 Tolerate spaces better after command prefixes (@aarzilli)

    🔄 Changed

    • ⚡️ Updated Mac OSX install instructions (@aarzilli)
    • ♻️ Refactor of core code in proc (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improve list command (@aarzilli)

  • v0.12.2

    April 13, 2017

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fix infinite recursion with pointer loop (@aarzilli)
    • 🏁 Windows: Handle delayed events (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix Println call to be Printf (@derekparker)
    • 🛠 Fix build on OSX (@koichi)
    • Mark malformed maps as unreadable instead of panicing (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed broken benchmarks (@derekparker)
    • 👌 Improve reliability of certain tests (@aarzilli)

    ➕ Added

    • Go 1.8 Compatability (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Add Go 1.8 to test matrix (@derekparker)
    • 👌 Support NaN/Inf float values (@aarzilli)
    • 🖐 Handle absence of stack barriers in Go 1.9 (@drchase)
    • ➕ Add gdlv to list of alternative UIs (@aarzilli)

    🔄 Changed

    • ⚡️ Optimized 'trace' functionality (@aarzilli)
    • ♻️ Internal refactoring to support multiple backends, core dumps, and more (@aarzilli) [Still ongoing]
    • 👌 Improve stacktraces (@aarzilli)
    • 👌 Improved documentation for passing flags to debugged process (@njason)

  • v0.12.1

    January 11, 2017

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Fixed version output format.

  • v0.12.0

    January 11, 2017

    ➕ Added

    • ➕ Added support for OSX 10.12.1 kernel update (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added flag to set working directory (#650) (@rustyrobot)
    • ➕ Added stepout command (@aarzilli)
    • 🏁 Implemented "attach" on Windows (@alexbrainman)
    • Implemented next / step / step-instruction on parked goroutines (@aarzilli)
    • ➕ Added support for App Engine (@dbenque)
    • 👍 Go 1.7 support
    • ➕ Added HomeBrew formula for installing on OSX.
    • Delve now will break on unrecovered panics. (@aarzilli)
    • Headless server can serve multiple clients.
    • Conditional breakpoints have been implemented. (@aarzilli)
    • Disassemble command has been implemented. (@aarzilli)
    • 📚 Much improved documentation (still a ways to go).

    🔄 Changed

    • 🖨 Pretty printing: type of elements of interface slices are printed.
    • 👌 Improvements in internal operation of "step" command.
    • 👍 Allow quoting in build flags argument.
    • "h" as alias for "help" command. (@stmuk)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 👌 Improved prologue detection for large stack frames (#690) (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fixed bugs involving stale executables during restart (#689) (@aarzilli)
    • Various improvements to variable evaluation code (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix bug reading process comm name (@ggndnn)
    • ➕ Add better detection for launching non executable files. (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix halt bug during tracing. (@aarzilli)
    • 🏁 Do not use escape codes on Windows when unsupported (@alexbrainman)
    • 🛠 Fixed path lookup logic on Windows. (@lukehoban)

  • v0.11.0

    January 26, 2016

  • v0.11.0-alpha

    January 26, 2016

    ➕ Added

    • 🏁 Windows support landed in master. Still work to be done, but 95% the way there. (@lukehoban)
    • step-instruction command added, has same behavior of the old step command.
    • (Backend) Implementation for conditional breakpoints, front end command coming soon. (@aarzilli)
    • 🖨 Implement expression evaluator, can now execute commands like print i == 2. (@aarzilli)

    🔄 Changed

    • step command no longer steps single instruction but goes to next source line, stepping into functions.
    • ♻️ Refactor of parseG command for clarity and speed improvements.
    • ⚡️ Optimize reading from target process memory with cache. (prefetch + parse) (@aarzilli)
    • Shorten file paths in trace output.
    • ➕ Added Git SHA to version output.
    • 👌 Support function spec with partial package paths. (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Bunch of misc variable evaluation fixes (@aarzilli)

    🛠 Fixed

    • 🛠 Misc fixes in preparation for Go 1.6. (@aarzilli, @derekparker)
    • 📜 Replace stdlib debug/dwarf with golang.org/x/debug/dwarf and fix Dwarf endian related parsing issues. (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix goroutines not working without an argument. (@aarzilli)
    • Always clear temp breakpoints, even if normal breakpoint is hit. (@aarzilli)
    • Infinite loading loop through maps. (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix OSX issues related to CGO memory corruption (array overrun in CGO). (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix OSX issue related to reporting multiple breakpoints hit at same time. (@aarzilli)
    • 🛠 Fix panic when using the trace subcommand.