[diamon-discuss] [RELEASE] LTTng-UST 2.7.5 (Linux user-space tracer) (EOL)

[diamon-discuss] [RELEASE] LTTng-UST 2.7.5 (Linux user-space tracer) (EOL)

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

LTTng-UST, the Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation Userspace Tracer,
is a low-overhead application tracer. The library "liblttng-ust" enables
tracing of applications and libraries.

Now that the 2.9 release of lttng-ust is out, lttng-ust 2.7.5 marks the end
of life of the stable-2.7 lttng-ust release branch. This version only adds
bugfixes.

Project website: http://lttng.org
Documentation: http://lttng.org/docs
Download link: http://lttng.org/download

Changelog:
2016-12-07 (National Earmuff Day) lttng-ust 2.7.5
        * Fix: loglevel and model_emf_uri build fix
        * Fix: loglevel and model_emf_uri with g++ compiled probes
        * Fix: Out of tree build of liblttng-ust-java
        * Fix: perform statedump before replying to sessiond
        * Fix: honor send timeout on unix socket connect
        * Fix: perform TLS fixup in all UST entry points from each thread
        * Fix: remove unlock in getcpu
        * Fix: perf counters ABI rdpmc detection
        * Fix: perf counter context deadlock
        * Fix: many-events registration/unregistration speed
        * Fix: pre-fault TLS in ust-malloc instrumentation
        * Fix: reset vtid cache before releasing urcu locks
        * Fix: cleanup local_apps.allowed flag on lib cleanup
        * Fix: remove invalid free
        * Fix: perf counters: sign-extend pmc register
        * Fix: allow non-LGPL modules to use tracepoints
        * Fix: strerror_r behavior is glibc specific
        * Fix: don't generate 0-len array in tracepoint probes
        * Fix: log4j example: set logger level to prevent unexpected level inheritance
        * Fix: initialize RCU callbacks with mixed LGPL/non-LGPL objects
        * Fix: incorrect structure layout with mixed LGPL/non-LGPL objects
        * Fix: don't call __builtin_return_address(0) on 32-bit powerpc
        * Fix: tracepoint header: declare tracepoint_dlopen_ptr
        * Fix: update debug message about weak-hidden symbols
        * Fix: tracepoint-rcu header: use tracepoint_dlopen_ptr
        * Fix: work-around gcc optimisation oddness on 32-bit powerpc
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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com