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The annotated tag, release-0.9.8 has been created
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  replaces  release-0.9.7
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        on  Thu Jun 11 16:13:28 2009 -0700

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Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli (6):
      PR10007: Avoid probing syscall entry points in the testsuite.
      Fix kprobes.exp.
      Revert "Fix kprobes.exp."
      Initialize aptr in runtime/map.c and keep gcc-4.4 happy
      More testsuite tweaks to make it work with SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
      PR10206: Include NOTYPE symbols in stap-symbols.h

Dave Brolley (15):
      Module signing and verification using a separate file for the module signature.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Describe new module signing capability.
      Make sure pw struct is initialized.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Initialize euid before using it.
      Ensure that pw is not used if it is NULL.
      Typo in invocation of stap-start-server
      Replace entire default path for stap_exec_prefix.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Problems using server scripts when not on PATH.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Correct typo in BUILD_SERVER test in configure.ac.

David Smith (10):
      Cache and retrieve syscall arguments when needed.
      Fixed itrace on RHEL5 (PR10091).
      Fixed uaddr tapset function for ppc64 by adding task_pt_regs() definition.
      Add stap-server buildreqs: nss-tools and pkgconfig.
      PR10091 fixes.
      PR10171 workaround.
      Avoid 1 case of holding a semaphore while mmap callbacks are being made.
      Avoid holding semaphore while making mmap callbacks.
      Better sdt.exp test cleanup.
      Fixed cut-and-paste error.

Elliott Baron (1):
      PR10209: extend configury for --disable-translator

Eugeniy Meshcheryakov (12):
      Fix arguments to mktemp with less than 6 X's
      Make test example for xmlto more complex, to make it fail on Debian
      Remove latex2html detection, it is not used anymore
      Run autoreconf
      Remove latex2html from BuildRequires
      Only disable building of PDF version of refdocs if xmlto is bad
      Run autoreconf
      Fix --enable-refdocs
      run autoreconf
      Revert "Remove latex2html detection, it is not used anymore"
      Revert "Remove latex2html from BuildRequires"
      Run autoreconf

Frank Ch. Eigler (16):
      new NEWS section
      git_version: fall back to git-describe w/o --long, and even git-rev-parse HEAD for old gits
      fix kprobe.* probes so they don't break -p4 if script also has kernel.* probes
      new AUTHOR; fixed my commit --author typo via .mailmap
      add verboser strerrors if posix_spawn failed
      whitespace tweak in tcl code
      syscalls testsuite: use different escape sequence
      fix permissions of some testsuite files
      some versions of bundled elfutils needs m4 for building
      PR10182: clean uprobes.ko during rpm upgrade
      ttyspy.stp: new sample script
      ttyspy: struct pid->number[0]->nr arrived with 2.6.24 not later
      dummy empty change
      build compatibility fix for gcc 3.4
      gcc 3.4.6 compatibility: s/{true,false}/{1,0} in runtime/unwind.c
      remove erroneous dependency (systemtap-sdt-devel -> systemtap)

Jim Keniston (1):
      PR5273: uprobes_i386.c instruction table

JoeLynn Keniston (1):
      Create nd_syscalls2.stp

Josh Stone (76):
      Tweak error message in kprobe.function registration
      Don't terminate when a dwarfless kprobe fails
      Fill out the pp() for dwarfless kprobes
      Simplify dwarfless kprobe stmt vs. name logic
      Enable kprobe.function.return.maxactive
      Add two new AUTHORS
      Warn if trying to dereference an enum
      Handle more types of types in declaration_resolve
      Use sockaddr instead of timeval in @cast test
      Add Vim modelines for new C/C++ sources
      Use stap_system() in mod-signing code
      Separate built-in timer tapsets
      Merge profile_builder into timer_builder
      Separate the begin/end/error/never tapsets
      Use a single entry function for begin/end/error
      Separate the procfs tapset
      Group all kprobe_derived_FOO together
      Separate the permon tapset
      Separate the kernel.mark tapset
      Separate task_finder and the itrace tapset
      Separate the utrace tapset
      Merge branch 'tapsets-cleanup'
      AUTHORS bump for Malte Nuhn
      Simplify buildok/context_test.stp
      Don't attempt NSS if the module failed to build
      Refactor anonymous lookups in translate_components
      PR10054: Unify the translate_components errors
      Allow @cast failures to get optimized away
      Consolidate dwflpp setup
      Move dfwlpp into its own file
      [tracepoints] Print pointer arguments with %p
      [tracepoints] ternary is nicer for arg format
      Remove unused dwflpp methods
      Don't shadow dwlfpp::dwfl in loc2c_emit_address
      Merge the dwflpp::query_cu_..._address methods
      Break the dwflpp dependence on query_module
      Break the dwflpp dependence on query_cu
      Simplify our unordered_map typedefs
      Privatize many dwflpp members
      Merge branch 'tapsets-cleanup'
      Make all tapsets' TOK_FOO constant
      YAAU (Yet Another AUTHORS Update)
      PR10177: init/kill time in sleepy context only
      Restore staprun's support for REAL_UID/GID
      Use embedded-C for empty functions
      Move the "pure" tag into the body of __is_user_regs
      PR10190: Suppress warnings for optional kprobes
      Fix another kernel/kprobe.function conflict
      Add JoeLynn Keniston to AUTHORS
      Convert nd_syscalls2 to kprobe.function
      Kill trailing whitespace in nd_syscalls[2]
      Clean up nd_syscalls2 formatting
      Fix a few variables in nd_syscalls2
      Move the blacklist functions into dwflpp
      Cache the last result of dwarf_getscopes
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sourceware.org/git/systemtap
      More nd_syscalls2 cleanup, and add SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
      Complete a few TODO probe points in nd_syscalls2
      Clean up the formatting of $arch/syscalls.stp
      Add $arch/nd_syscalls.stp
      Fix uninitialized shdr in probe_table
      Let query_module abort early for simple matches
      Remove dwflpp::default_name
      Fix uninitialized shdr in probe_table
      Simplify process.mark parameter parsing
      Remove the spurious sdt @cast expansion
      Remove sdt_var_expanding_visitor's now-unused dw
      Remove probe_table's unused location member
      Add bounds-checking to sdt $argN
      Fix condition propagation across aliases
      PR10260: Clean up all resources after init errors
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sourceware.org/git/systemtap
      Reformat the module signing NEWS
      Add nd_syscalls NEWS
      Pick up some NEWS items from the release notes
      Version bumps for the 0.9.8 release

Keiichi KII (1):
      PR 6930: Add additional testcases for flight recorder mode

Kent Sebastian (1):
      PR10082: refactor duplicated code

Key Meyer (2):
      traceio sample: tolerate more than a few hundred processes
      traceio: add human-readable byte-count output

Malte Nuhn (1):
      context tapset: sid() function to return task session leader pid

Mark Wielaard (27):
      Add grapher executable and doc generated files and dirs to .gitignore files.
      Handle kprobe struct field symbol_name as either char * or const char *.
      Make sure user_string_n() results are always zero terminated strings.
      Fix funtion -> function typo in alternatives.exp.
      Don't recurse into DW_AT_declaration subprograms in iterate_over_labels.
      systemtap.syscall tests do use + and * as metachars.
      Search for only under $(SRCDIR)/tapsets for tapsets.xml and cleanup.
      Check whether certutil as provided by nss-tools is installed.
      Get .probes section through dwarf debuginfo file if necessary.
      Use actual sock in tcp_test, instead of unexisting sk variable.
      Implement caller:string() in terms of symname() and caller_addr().
      PR10139 Mark .probes section SHF_ALLOC.
      Fixed comma space, space dot typos in various man pages.
      Set explicit longer, 60 second, timeout for alternatives.exp.
      flightrec3.exp uses cpus as array, so rename skipped.exp cpus var to nr_cpus.
      Mark all testsuite/parseko/cmdline21.stp as executable.
      Tidy/tighten DEBUG_UNWIND ptrType a bit.
      Merge branch 'master' of git://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      PR10172 sdt.h on powerpc Error: junk at end of line: `0'
      Fetch and store both debug_frame and eh_frame tables.
      Pass and use ptrType and is_ehframe to unwind adjustStartLoc.
      Use debug_frame table, then fallback to eh_frame when necessary.
      Properly read eh_frame and pass is_ehframe correctly.
      Fix gcc warning about Dwarf_Addr initialization.
      Add ucontext-symbols and ucontext-unwind tapset functions to the manual.
      Fix nd_syscall2 open.return typo.
      Detect kretprobe trampoline and use fallback unwinder.

Masami Hiramatsu (1):
      PR 6930: fix flightrec2.exp to handle filesize correctly

Petr Muller (2):
      Fix few typos in stapprobes manpages found by a spellchecker.
      Fixed few typos in various man pages found by a spellchecker.

Przemyslaw Pawelczyk (11):
      Correct fd variable name in fadvise64 probe points.
      Fix typo in mq_timedreceive probe point.
      Complete the names-to-numbers conversion in nd_syscalls.stp.
      Correct misnamed variables in syscalls.stp.
      Unify formatting of syscalls.stp and syscalls2.stp.
      Fix alignment of probe aliases in syscalls(|2).stp.
      Unify formatting of nd_syscalls.stp.
      Remove return probes for exit[_group] in nd_syscalls.stp.
      Add missing probe points in nd_syscalls.stp.
      Uncomment 'name' variable in nd_syscall.lseek probe point.
      Fix nd_syscalls.stp for architectures using SYSCALL_WRAPPERS.

Stan Cox (3):
      * tapsets.cxx (dwarf_builder::probe_table): New.  Derived from
      * tapsets.cxx (probe_table): Make mark_name and sess refs.
      * tapsets.cxx (sdt_var_expanding_visitor::process_name): New.

Sunzen Wang (4):
      Fix inconsistent indentation for including header file in aux_syscalls.stp.
      Fix: Enhance -p option checking so as to just accept valid number
      Enhance -s option checking to only accept valid size number
      Enhance -x option checking to only accept valid pid

Wenji Huang (8):
      Add function of returning the char in given position of string
      PR10099: Extend %M directive to support hexdumping large buffers
      PR10081: improve error message for verifying build-id
      PR10102: tolerate mismatched optional probe
      Add manual for stringat function
      Tweak alternatives.exp
      PR10102: tolerate the failure related to optional probe
      Adapt sid to latest kernel

William Cohen (13):
      Have stap-fine-or-start-server look in the right directory.
      Correct TMPFILE and TMPFILE2 file names.
      Don't print out the commands.
      Provide more details in testsuite.examples/README on how to submit examples.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Initialize variables in GraphWidget::on_motion_notify_event().
      Include grapher in installed file list.
      Revert "Include grapher in installed file list."
      Disable building grapher code in rpm.
      Add the schedtimes.stp and associated schedtimes.meta files to the examples.
      Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
      Suggest rpms to install using debuginfo-install.
      Add debuginfo-install suggestion for kernel probing.

ddomingo (5):
      added tcp_connections.stp
      added ioblktime.stp to guide
      added tcpdumplike.stp to Network for Fedora build only
      moves starthere tag higher to remove more content preventing publican build
      removed unnecessary perl statements

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