1 Release 3.25.0 (?? Apr 2025)
2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
5 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
6 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
7 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, AMD64/MacOSX 10.12, X86/FreeBSD, AMD64/FreeBSD
8 and ARM64/FreeBSD There is also preliminary support for X86/macOS 10.13,
9 AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux.
11 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
13 * The valgrind gdbserver now supports the GDB remote protocol packet
14 'x addr,len' (available in GDB release >= 16).
15 The x packet can reduce the time taken by GDB to read memory from valgrind.
17 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
19 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ===================
21 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
23 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
24 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
25 but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
26 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
27 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
28 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
30 489913 WARNING: unhandled amd64-linux syscall: 444 (landlock_create_ruleset)
31 494246 syscall fsopen not wrapped
32 494327 Crash when running Helgrind built with #define TRACE_PTH_FNS 1
33 494337 All threaded applications cause still holding lock errors
34 495488 Add FreeBSD getrlimitusage syscall wrapper
35 496571 False positive for null key passed to bpf_map_get_next_key syscall.
36 469782 Valgrind does not support zstd-compressed debug sections
37 497130 Recognize new DWARF5 DW_LANG constants
38 497455 Update drd/scripts/download-and-build-gcc
40 To see details of a given bug, visit
41 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
42 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
45 Release 3.24.0 (31 Oct 2024)
46 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
48 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
49 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
50 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
51 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, AMD64/MacOSX 10.12, X86/FreeBSD, AMD64/FreeBSD
52 and ARM64/FreeBSD There is also preliminary support for X86/macOS 10.13,
53 AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux.
55 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
57 * Bad file descriptor usage now generates a real error with
58 --track-fds=yes that is suppressible and shows up in the xml output
59 with full execution backtrace. The warnings shown without using the
60 option are deprecated and will be removed in a future valgrind
63 * Ada name demangling is now supported in error messages.
65 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
67 * S390X added support for the DFLTCC instruction provided by the
68 deflate-conversion facility (z15/arch13).
70 * S390X added support for the instructions provided by the MSA facility
71 and MSA extensions 1-9.
73 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ===================
75 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
77 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
78 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
79 but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
80 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
81 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
82 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
84 202770 open fd at exit --log-socket=127.0.0.1:1500 with --track-fds=yes
85 276780 An instruction in fftw (Fast Fourier Transform) is unhandled by
86 valgrind: vex x86->IR: unhandled instruction bytes:
88 311655 --log-file=FILE leads to apparent fd leak
89 317127 Fedora18/x86_64 --sanity-level=3 : aspacem segment mismatch
90 337388 fcntl works on Valgrind's own file descriptors
91 377966 arm64 unhandled instruction dc zva392146 aarch64: unhandled
92 instruction 0xD5380001 (MRS rT, midr_el1)
93 391148 Unhandled AVX instruction vmovq %xmm9,%xmm1
94 392146 aarch64: unhandled instruction 0xD5380001 (MRS rT, midr_el1)
95 412377 SIGILL on cache flushes on arm64
96 417572 vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0xC5 0x79 0xD6 0xED 0xC5
97 440180 s390x: Failed assertion in disassembler
98 444781 MIPS: wrong syscall numbers used
99 447989 Support Armv8.2 SHA-512 instructions
100 445235 Java/Ada/D demangling is probably broken
101 453044 gbserver_tests failures in aarch64
102 479661 Valgrind leaks file descriptors
103 486180 [Valgrind][MIPS] 'VexGuestArchState' has no member named
104 'guest_IP_AT_SYSCALL'
105 486293 memccpy false positives
106 486569 linux inotify_init syscall wrapper missing POST entry in syscall_table
107 487439 SIGILL in JDK11, JDK17
108 487993 Alignment error when using Eigen with Valgrind and -m32
109 488026 Use of `sizeof` instead of `strlen
110 488379 --track-fds=yes errors that cannot be suppressed with --xml-file=
111 488441 Add tests for --track-fds=yes --xml=yes and fd suppression tests
112 489040 massif trace change to show the location increasing the stack
113 489088 Valgrind throws unhandled instruction bytes: 0xC5 0x79 0xD6 0xE0 0xC5
114 489338 arm64: Instruction fcvtas should round 322.5 to 323, but result is 322.
115 489676 vgdb handle EINTR and EAGAIN more consistently
116 490651 Stop using -flto-partition=one
117 491394 (vgModuleLocal_addDiCfSI): Assertion 'di->fsm.have_rx_map &&
118 di->fsm.rw_map_count' failed
119 492210 False positive on x86/amd64 with ZF taken directly from addition
120 492214 statx(fd, NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH) is supported since Linux 6.11
121 but not supported in valgrind
122 492422 Please support DRM_IOCTL_SYNCOBJ_HANDLE_TO_FD
123 492663 Valgrind ignores debug info for some binaries
124 493418 Add bad fd usage errors for --track-fds in ML_(fd_allowed)
125 493454 Missing FUSE_COMPATIBLE_MAY_BLOCK markers
126 493507 direct readlink syscall from PRE handler is incompatible with
127 FUSE_COMPATIBLE_MAY_BLOCK
128 493959 s390x: Fix regtest failure for none/tests/s390x/op00
129 493970 s390x: Store/restore FPC upon helper call causes slowdown
130 494218 Remove FREEBSD_VERS from configure and build
131 494252 s390x: incorrect disassembly for LOCHI and friends
132 494960 Fixes and tweaks for gsl19test
133 495278 PowerPC instruction dcbf should allow the L field values of 4, 6 on
134 ISA 3.0 and earlier, just ignore the value
135 495469 aligned_alloc and posix_memalign missing MALLOC_TRACE with returned
137 495470 s390x: 3.24.0.RC1 missing file and regtest failure
138 n-i-bz Improve messages for sigaltstack errors, use specific
141 To see details of a given bug, visit
142 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
143 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
145 (3.24.0.RC1: 27 Oct 2024)
148 Release 3.23.0 (26 Apr 2024)
149 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
151 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
152 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
153 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
154 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, AMD64/MacOSX 10.12, X86/FreeBSD, AMD64/FreeBSD
155 and ARM64/FreeBSD There is also preliminary support for X86/macOS 10.13,
156 AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux.
158 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
160 * --track-fds=yes will now also warn about double closing of file
161 descriptors. Printing the context where the file descriptor was
162 originally opened and where it was previously closed.
164 * --track-fds=yes also produces "real" errors now which can be
165 suppressed and work with --error-exitcode. When combined with
166 --xml the xml-output now also includes FdBadClose and FdNotClosed
167 error kinds (see docs/internals/xml-output-protocol5.txt).
169 * The option --show-error-list=no|yes now accepts a new value all.
170 This indicates to also print the suppressed errors.
171 This is useful to analyse which errors are suppressed by which
173 The valgrind monitor command 'v.info all_errors' similarly now
174 accepts a new optional argument 'also_suppressed' to show
175 all errors including the suppressed errors.
177 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
179 * Added ARM64 support for FreeBSD.
181 * ARM64 now supports dotprod instructions (sdot/udot).
183 * AMD64 better supports code build with -march=x86-64-v3.
184 fused-multiple-add instructions (fma) are now emulated more
185 accurately. And memcheck now handles __builtin_strcmp using 128/256
186 bit vectors with sse4.1, avx/avx2.
188 * S390X added support for NNPA (neural network processing assist)
189 facility vector instructions VCNF, VCLFNH, VCFN, VCLFNL, VCRNF and
192 * X86 recognizes new binutils-2.42 nop patterns.
194 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ===================
196 * The none tool now also supports xml output.
198 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
200 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
201 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
202 but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
203 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
204 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
205 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
208 283429 ARM leak checking needs CLEAR_CALLER_SAVED_REGS
209 281059 Cannot connect to Oracle using valgrind
210 328563 make track-fds support xml output
211 362680 --error-exitcode not honored when file descriptor leaks are found
212 369723 __builtin_longjmp not supported in clang/llvm on Android arm64 target
213 390269 unhandled amd64-darwin syscall: unix:464 (openat_nocancel)
214 401284 False positive "Source and destination overlap in strncat"
215 428364 Signals inside io_uring_enter not handled
216 437790 valgrind reports "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
217 value" in memchr of macOS 10.12-10.15
218 460616 disInstr(arm64): unhandled instruction 0x4E819402 (dotprod/ASIMDDP)
219 463458 memcheck/tests/vcpu_fnfns fails when glibc is built for x86-64-v3
220 463463 none/tests/amd64/fma fails when executed on a x86-64-v3 system
221 466762 Add redirs for C23 free_sized() and free_aligned_sized()
222 466884 Missing writev uninit padding suppression for _XSend
223 471036 disInstr_AMD64: disInstr miscalculated next %rip on RORX imm8, m32/64, r32/6
224 471222 support tracking of file descriptors being double closed
225 474160 If errors-for-leak-kinds is specified, exit-on-first-error should only exit
226 on one of the listed errors.
227 475498 Add reallocarray wrapper
228 476025 Vbit expected test results for Iop_CmpGT64Ux2 are wrong
229 476320 Build failure with GCC
230 476331 clean up generated/distributed filter scripts
231 476535 Difference in allocation size for massif/tests/overloaded-new between
232 clang++/libc++ and g++/libstdc++
233 476548 valgrind 3.22.0 fails on assertion when loading debuginfo file
235 476708 valgrind-monitor.py regular expressions should use raw strings
236 476780 Extend strlcat and strlcpy wrappers to GNU libc
237 476787 Build of Valgrind 3.21.0 fails when SOLARIS_PT_SUNDWTRACE_THRP is
239 476887 WARNING: unhandled amd64-freebsd syscall: 578
240 477198 Add fchmodat2 syscall on linux
241 477628 Add mremap support for Solaris
242 477630 Include ucontext.h rather than sys/ucontext.h in Solaris sources
243 477719 vgdb incorrectly replies to qRcmd packet
244 478211 Redundant code for vgdb.c and Valgrind core tools
245 478624 Valgrind incompatibility with binutils-2.42 on x86 with new nop patterns
246 (unhandled instruction bytes: 0x2E 0x8D 0xB4 0x26
247 478837 valgrind fails to read debug info for rust binaries
248 479041 Executables without RW sections do not trigger debuginfo reading
249 480052 WARNING: unhandled amd64-freebsd syscall: 580
250 480126 Build failure on Raspberry Pi 5 / OS 6.1.0-rpi7-rpi-v8
251 480405 valgrind 3.22.0 "m_debuginfo/image.c:586 (set_CEnt):
252 Assertion '!sr_isError(sr)' failed."
253 480488 Add support for FreeBSD 13.3
254 480706 Unhandled syscall 325 (mlock2)
255 481127 amd64: Implement VFMADD213 for Iop_MAddF32
256 481131 [PATCH] x86 regtest: fix clobber lists in generated asm statements
257 481676 Build failure on Raspberry Pi 5 Ubuntu 23.10 with clang
258 481874 Add arm64 support for FreeBSD
259 483786 Incorrect parameter indexing in FreeBSD clock_nanosleep syscall wrapper
260 484002 Add suppression for invalid read in glibc's __wcpncpy_avx2() via wcsxfrm()
261 484426 aarch64: 0.5 gets rounded to 0
262 484480 False positives when using sem_trywait
263 484935 [patch] Valgrind reports false "Conditional jump or move depends on
264 uninitialised value" errors for aarch64 signal handlers
265 485148 vfmadd213ss instruction is instrumented incorrectly (the remaining
266 part of the register is cleared instead of kept unmodified)
267 485487 glibc built with -march=x86-64-v3 does not work due to ld.so strcmp
268 485778 Crash with --track-fds=all and --gen-suppressions=all
269 n-i-bz Add redirect for memccpy
271 To see details of a given bug, visit
272 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
273 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
275 (3.23.0.RC1: 19 Apr 2024)
276 (3.23.0.RC2: 24 Apr 2024)
278 Release 3.22.0 (31 Oct 2023)
279 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
281 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
282 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
283 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
284 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, AMD64/MacOSX 10.12, X86/FreeBSD and
285 AMD64/FreeBSD. There is also preliminary support for X86/macOS 10.13,
286 AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux.
288 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
290 * A new configure option --with-gdbscripts-dir lets you install
291 the gdb valgrind python monitor scripts in a specific location.
292 For example a distro could use it to install the scripts in a
293 safe load location --with-gdbscripts-dir=%{_datadir}/gdb/auto-load
294 It is also possible to configure --without-gdb-scripts-dir so no
295 .debug_gdb_scripts section is added to the vgpreload library and
296 no valgrind-monitor python scripts are installed at all.
298 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
300 * Support has been added for FreeBSD 14 and FreeBSD 15.
301 * Add support for the folllowing FreeBSD system calls:
302 close_range, kqueuex, membarrier, timerfd_create,
303 timerfd_settime and timerfd_gettime (all added in FreeBSD 15).
305 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ===================
307 * Memcheck now tests and warns about the values used for
308 alignment and size. These apply to various functions: memalign,
309 posix_memalign and aligned_alloc in C and various overloads
310 of operators new and delete in C++. The kinds of error that can
312 - invalid alignment, for instance the alignment is usually required
314 - mismatched alignment between aligned allocation and aligned
316 - mismatched size when sized delete is used
317 - bad size for functions that have implementation defined behaviour
318 when the requested size is zero
321 - You can now profile part of a program's execution using the new
322 `CACHEGRIND_START_INSTRUMENTATION` and `CACHEGRIND_STOP_INSTRUMENTATION`
323 client requests, along with the new `--instr-at-start` option. The
324 behaviour is the same as Callgrind's equivalent functionality.
326 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
328 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
329 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
330 but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
331 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
332 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
333 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
335 390871 ELF debug info reader confused with multiple .rodata* sections
336 417993 vbit-test fail on s390x with Iop_Add32: spurious dependency on uninit
337 426751 Valgrind reports "still reachable" memory using musl
338 (alpine running inside docker)
339 432801 Valgrind 3.16.1 reports a jump based on uninitialized memory somehow
340 related to clang and signals
341 433857 Add validation to C++17 aligned new/delete alignment size
342 433859 Add mismatched detection to C++ 17 aligned new/delete
343 460192 Add epoll_pwait2
344 461074 DWARF2 CFI reader: unhandled DW_OP_ 0x11 (consts) DW_OP_ 0x92 (bregx)
345 465782 s390x: Valgrind doesn't compile with Clang on s390x
346 466105 aligned_alloc problems, part 2
347 467441 Add mismatched detection to C++ 14 sized delete
348 469049 link failure on ppc64 (big endian) valgrind 3.20
349 469146 massif --ignore-fn does not ignore inlined functions
350 469768 Make it possible to install gdb scripts in a different location
351 470121 Can't run callgrind_control with valgrind 3.21.0 because of perl errors
352 470132 s390x: Assertion failure on VGM instruction
353 470520 Multiple realloc zero errors crash in MC_(eq_Error)
354 470713 Failure on the Yosys project: valgrind: m_libcfile.c:1802
355 (Bool vgPlain_realpath(const HChar *, HChar *)):
356 Assertion 'resolved' failed
357 470830 Don't print actions vgdb me ... continue for vgdb --multi mode
358 470978 s390x: Valgrind cannot start qemu-kvm when "sysctl vm.allocate_pgste=0"
359 471311 gdb --multi mode stdout redirecting to stderr
360 471807 Add support for lazy reading and downloading of DWARF debuginfo
361 472219 Syscall param ppoll(ufds.events) points to uninitialised byte(s)
362 472875 none/tests/s390x/dfp-1 failure
363 472963 Broken regular expression in configure.ac
364 473604 Fix bug472219.c compile failure with Clang 16
365 473677 make check compile failure with Clang 16 based on GCC 13.x
366 473745 must-be-redirected function - strlen
367 473870 FreeBSD 14 applications fail early at startup
368 473944 Handle mold linker split RW PT_LOAD segments correctly
369 474332 aligned_alloc under Valgrind returns nullptr when alignment is not a multiple of sizeof(void *)
370 475650 DRD does not work with C11 threads
371 475652 Missing suppression for __wcsncpy_avx2 (strncpy-avx2.S:308)?
372 476108 vg_replace_malloc DELETE checks size
373 n-i-bz Allow arguments with spaces in .valgrindrc files
374 n-i-bz FreeBSD fixed reading of Valgrind tools own debuginfo
376 To see details of a given bug, visit
377 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
378 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
380 (3.22.0.RC1: 17 Oct 2023)
381 (3.22.0.RC2: 26 Oct 2023)
383 Release 3.21.0 (28 Apr 2023)
384 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
386 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
387 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
388 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
389 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, AMD64/MacOSX 10.12, X86/FreeBSD and
390 AMD64/FreeBSD. There is also preliminary support for X86/macOS 10.13,
391 AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux.
393 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
395 * When GDB is used to debug a program running under valgrind using
396 the valgrind gdbserver, GDB will automatically load some
397 python code provided in valgrind defining GDB front end commands
398 corresponding to the valgrind monitor commands.
399 These GDB front end commands accept the same format as
400 the monitor commands directly sent to the Valgrind gdbserver.
401 These GDB front end commands provide a better integration
402 in the GDB command line interface, so as to use for example
403 GDB auto-completion, command specific help, searching for
404 a command or command help matching a regexp, ...
405 For relevant monitor commands, GDB will evaluate arguments
406 to make the use of monitor commands easier.
407 For example, instead of having to print the address of a variable
408 to pass it to a subsequent monitor command, the GDB front end
409 command will evaluate the address argument. It is for example
411 (gdb) memcheck who_points_at &some_struct sizeof(some_struct)
414 $2 = (some_struct_type *) 0x1130a0 <some_struct>
415 (gdb) p sizeof(some_struct)
417 (gdb) monitor who_point_at 0x1130a0 40
419 * The vgdb utility now supports extended-remote protocol when
420 invoked with --multi. In this mode the GDB run command is
421 supported. Which means you don't need to run gdb and valgrind
422 from different terminals. So for example to start your program
423 in gdb and run it under valgrind you can do:
425 (gdb) set remote exec-file prog
427 (gdb) target extended-remote | vgdb --multi
430 * The behaviour of realloc with a size of zero can now
431 be changed for tools that intercept malloc. Those
432 tools are memcheck, helgrind, drd, massif and dhat.
433 Realloc implementations generally do one of two things
434 - free the memory like free() and return NULL
435 (GNU libc and ptmalloc).
436 - either free the memory and then allocate a
437 minimum sized block or just return the
438 original pointer. Return NULL if the
439 allocation of the minimum sized block fails
440 (jemalloc, musl, snmalloc, Solaris, macOS).
441 When Valgrind is configured and built it will
442 try to match the OS and libc behaviour. However
443 if you are using a non-default library to replace
444 malloc and family (e.g., musl on a glibc Linux or
445 tcmalloc on FreeBSD) then you can use a command line
446 option to change the behaviour of Valgrind:
447 --realloc-zero-bytes-frees=yes|no [yes on Linux glibc, no otherwise]
449 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
451 * Make the address space limit on FreeBSD amd64 128Gbytes
452 (the same as Linux and Solaris, it was 32Gbytes)
454 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ===================
457 - When doing a delta leak_search, it is now possible to only
458 output the new loss records compared to the previous leak search.
459 This is available in the memcheck monitor command 'leak_search'
460 by specifying the "new" keyword or in your program by using
461 the client request VALGRIND_DO_NEW_LEAK_CHECK.
462 Whenever a "delta" leak search is done (i.e. when specifying
463 "new" or "increased" or "changed" in the monitor command),
464 the new loss records have a "new" marker.
465 - Valgrind now contains python code that defines GDB memcheck
466 front end monitor commands. See CORE CHANGES.
467 - Performs checks for the use of realloc with a size of zero.
468 This is non-portable and a source of errors. If memcheck
469 detects such a usage it will generate an error
470 realloc() with size 0
471 followed by the usual callstacks.
472 A switch has been added to allow this to be turned off:
473 --show-realloc-size-zero=yes|no [yes]
476 - The option ---history-backtrace-size=<number> allows to configure
477 the number of entries to record in the stack traces of "old"
478 accesses. Previously, this number was hardcoded to 8.
479 - Valgrind now contains python code that defines GDB helgrind
480 front end monitor commands. See CORE CHANGES.
483 - `--cache-sim=no` is now the default. The cache simulation is old and
484 unlikely to match any real modern machine. This means only the `Ir`
485 event are gathered by default, but that is by far the most useful
487 - `cg_annotate`, `cg_diff`, and `cg_merge` have been rewritten in
488 Python. As a result, they all have more flexible command line
489 argument handling, e.g. supporting `--show-percs` and
490 `--no-show-percs` forms as well as the existing `--show-percs=yes`
491 and `--show-percs=no`.
492 - `cg_annotate` has some functional changes.
493 - It's much faster, e.g. 3-4x on common cases.
494 - It now supports diffing (with `--diff`, `--mod-filename`, and
495 `--mod-funcname`) and merging (by passing multiple data files).
496 - It now provides more information at the file and function level.
497 There are now "File:function" and "Function:file" sections. These
498 are very useful for programs that use inlining a lot.
499 - Support for user-annotated files and the `-I`/`--include` option
500 has been removed, because it was of little use and blocked other
502 - The `--auto` option is renamed `--annotate`, though the old
503 `--auto=yes`/`--auto=no` forms are still supported.
504 - `cg_diff` and `cg_merge` are now deprecated, because `cg_annotate`
505 now does a better job of diffing and merging.
506 - The Cachegrind output file format has changed very slightly, but in
507 ways nobody is likely to notice.
510 - Valgrind now contains python code that defines GDB callgrind
511 front end monitor commands. See CORE CHANGES.
514 - Valgrind now contains python code that defines GDB massif
515 front end monitor commands. See CORE CHANGES.
518 - A new kind of user request has been added which allows you to
519 override the 1024 byte limit on access count histograms for blocks
520 of memory. The client request is DHAT_HISTOGRAM_MEMORY.
522 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
524 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
525 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
526 but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
527 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
528 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
529 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
531 170510 Don't warn about ioctl of size 0 without direction hint
532 241072 List tools in --help output
533 327548 false positive while destroying mutex
534 382034 Testcases build fixes for musl
535 351857 confusing error message about valid command line option
536 374596 inconsistent RDTSCP support on x86_64
537 392331 Spurious lock not held error from inside pthread_cond_timedwait
538 397083 Likely false positive "uninitialised value(s)" for __wmemchr_avx2 and __wmemcmp_avx2_movbe
539 400793 pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock false positive
540 419054 Unhandled syscall getcpu on arm32
541 433873 openat2 syscall unimplemented on Linux
542 434057 Add stdio mode to valgrind's gdbserver
543 435441 valgrind fails to interpose malloc on musl 1.2.2 due to weak symbol name and no libc soname
544 436413 Warn about realloc of size zero
545 439685 compiler warning in callgrind/main.c
546 444110 priv/guest_ppc_toIR.c:36198:31: warning: duplicated 'if' condition.
547 444487 hginfo test detects an extra lock inside data symbol "_rtld_local"
548 444488 Use glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size tunable
549 444568 drd/tests/pth_barrier_thr_cr fails on Fedora 38
550 445743 "The impossible happened: mutex is locked simultaneously by two threads"
551 while using mutexes with priority inheritance and signals
552 449309 Missing loopback device ioctl(s)
553 459476 vgdb: allow address reuse to avoid "address already in use" errorsuse" errors
554 460356 s390: Sqrt32Fx4 -- cannot reduce tree
555 462830 WARNING: unhandled amd64-freebsd syscall: 474
556 463027 broken check for MPX instruction support in assembler
557 464103 Enhancement: add a client request to DHAT to mark memory to be histogrammed
558 464476 Firefox fails to start under Valgrind
559 464609 Valgrind memcheck should support Linux pidfd_open
560 464680 Show issues caused by memory policies like selinux deny_execmem
561 464859 Build failures with GCC-13 (drd tsan_unittest)
562 464969 D language demangling
563 465435 m_libcfile.c:66 (vgPlain_safe_fd): Assertion 'newfd >= VG_(fd_hard_limit)' failed.
564 466104 aligned_alloc problems, part 1
565 467036 Add time cost statistics for Regtest
566 467482 Build failure on aarch64 Alpine
567 467714 fdleak_* and rlimit tests fail when parent process has more than
568 64 descriptors opened
569 467839 Gdbserver: Improve compatibility of library directory name
570 468401 [PATCH] Add a style file for clang-format
571 468556 Build failure for vgdb
572 468606 build: remove "Valgrind relies on GCC" check/output
573 469097 ppc64(be) doesn't support SCV syscall instruction
574 n-i-bz FreeBSD rfork syscall fail with EINVAL or ENOSYS rather than VG_(unimplemented)
576 To see details of a given bug, visit
577 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
578 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
580 * ==================== KNOWN ISSUES ===================
582 * configure --enable-lto=yes is know to not work in all setups.
583 See bug 469049. Workaround: Build without LTO.
585 (3.21.0.RC1: 14 Apr 2023)
586 (3.21.0.RC2: 21 Apr 2023)
588 Release 3.20.0 (24 Oct 2022)
589 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
591 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
592 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
593 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
594 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, AMD64/MacOSX 10.12, X86/FreeBSD and
595 AMD64/FreeBSD. There is also preliminary support for X86/macOS 10.13,
596 AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux.
598 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
600 * The option "--vgdb-stop-at=event1,event2,..." accepts the new value abexit.
601 This indicates to invoke gdbserver when your program exits abnormally
602 (i.e. with a non zero exit code).
603 * Fix Rust v0 name demangling.
604 * The Linux rseq syscall is now implemented as (silently) returning ENOSYS.
605 * Add FreeBSD syscall wrappers for __specialfd and __realpathat.
606 * Remove FreeBSD dependencies on COMPAT10, which fixes compatibility with
608 * The option --enable-debuginfod=<no|yes> [default: yes] has been added on
610 * More DWARF5 support as generated by clang14.
612 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
614 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
615 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
616 but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
617 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
618 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
619 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
621 131186 writev reports error in (vector[...])
622 434764 iconv_open causes ld.so v2.28+ to use optimised strncmp
623 446754 Improve error codes from alloc functions under memcheck
624 452274 memcheck crashes with Assertion 'sci->status.what == SsIdle' failed
625 452779 Valgrind fails to build on FreeBSD 13.0 with llvm-devel (15.0.0)
626 453055 shared_timed_mutex drd test fails with "Lock shared failed" message
627 453602 Missing command line option to enable/disable debuginfod
628 452802 Handle lld 9+ split RW PT_LOAD segments correctly
629 454040 s390x: False-positive memcheck:cond in memmem on arch13 systems
630 456171 [PATCH] FreeBSD: Don't record address errors when accessing the 'kern.ps_strings' sysctl struct
631 n-i-bz Implement vgdb invoker on FreeBSD
632 458845 PowerPC: The L field for the dcbf and sync instruction should be
634 458915 Remove register cache to fix 458915 gdbserver causes wrong syscall return
635 459031 Documentation on --error-exitcode incomplete
636 459477 XERROR messages lacks ending '\n' in vgdb
637 462007 Implicit int in none/tests/faultstatus.c
639 To see details of a given bug, visit
640 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
641 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
643 (3.20.0.RC1: 20 Oct 2022)
646 Release 3.19.0 (11 Apr 2022)
647 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
649 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
650 PPC32/Linux, PPC64BE/Linux, PPC64LE/Linux, S390X/Linux, MIPS32/Linux,
651 MIPS64/Linux, ARM/Android, ARM64/Android, MIPS32/Android, X86/Android,
652 X86/Solaris, AMD64/Solaris, AMD64/MacOSX 10.12, X86/FreeBSD and
653 AMD64/FreeBSD. There is also preliminary support for X86/macOS 10.13,
654 AMD64/macOS 10.13 and nanoMIPS/Linux.
656 * ==================== CORE CHANGES ===================
658 * Fix Rust v0 name demangling.
659 * The Linux rseq syscall is now implemented as (silently) returning ENOSYS.
660 * Add FreeBSD syscall wrappers for __specialfd and __realpathat.
661 * Remove FreeBSD dependencies on COMPAT10, which fixes compatibility with HardenedBSD
663 * ================== PLATFORM CHANGES =================
666 - ignore the "v8.x" architecture levels, only look at actual CPU features
667 present. Fixes mismatch detected between RDMA and atomics features
668 preventing startup on some QEMU configurations.
669 - Implement LD{,A}XP and ST{,L}XP
670 - Fix incorrect code emitted for doubleword CAS.
673 - Fix sys_ipc semtimedop syscall
674 - Fix VFLRX and WFLRX instructions
675 - Fix EXRL instruction with negative offset
678 - Reimplement the vbpermq instruction support to generate less Iops and
679 avoid overflowing internal buffers.
680 - Fix checking for scv support to avoid "Facility 'SCV' unavailable (12),
681 exception" messages in dmsg.
682 - Fix setting condition code for Vector Compare quad word instructions.
683 - Fix fix lxsibzx, lxsihzx and lxsihzx instructions so they only load
684 their respective sized data.
685 - Fix the prefixed stq instruction in PC relative mode.
687 * ==================== TOOL CHANGES ===================
690 - Speed up --track-origins=yes for large (in the range of hundreds to
691 thousands of megabytes) mmap/munmaps.
693 - Several fixes for new versions of libstd++ using new posix try_lock
696 * ==================== FIXED BUGS ====================
698 The following bugs have been fixed or resolved. Note that "n-i-bz"
699 stands for "not in bugzilla" -- that is, a bug that was reported to us
700 but never got a bugzilla entry. We encourage you to file bugs in
701 bugzilla (https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind) rather
702 than mailing the developers (or mailing lists) directly -- bugs that
703 are not entered into bugzilla tend to get forgotten about or ignored.
705 403802 leak_cpp_interior fails with some reachable blocks different than expected
706 435732 memcheck/tests/leak_cpp_interior fails with gcc11
707 444242 s390x: Valgrind crashes on EXRL with negative offset
708 444399 arm64: unhandled instruction 0xC87F2D89 (LD{,A}XP and ST{,L}XP).
710 444481 gdb_server test failures on s390x
711 444495 dhat/tests/copy fails on s390x
712 444552 memcheck/tests/sem fails on s390x with glibc 2.34
713 444571 PPC, fix the lxsibzx and lxsihzx so they only load their respective
715 444836 PPC, pstq instruction for R=1 is not storing to the correct address.
716 444925 fexecve syscall wrapper not properly implemented
717 445032 valgrind/memcheck crash with SIGSEGV when SIGVTALRM timer used and
719 445211 Fix out of tree builds
720 445300 [PATCH] Fix building tests with Musl
721 445011 SIGCHLD is sent when valgrind uses debuginfod-find
722 445354 arm64 backend: incorrect code emitted for doubleword CAS
723 445415 arm64 front end: alignment checks missing for atomic instructions
724 445504 Using C++ condition_variable results in bogus "mutex is locked simultaneously by two threads" warning
725 445607 Unhandled amd64-freebsd syscall: 247
726 445668 Inline stack frame generation is broken for Rust binaries
727 445916 Demangle Rust v0 symbols with .llvm suffix
728 446139 DRD/Helgrind with std::shared_timed_mutex::try_lock_until and try_lock_shared_until false positives
729 446138 DRD/Helgrind with std::timed_mutex::try_lock_until false positives
730 446281 Add a DRD suppression for fwrite
731 446103 Memcheck: `--track-origins=yes` causes extreme slowdowns for large mmap/munmap
732 446139 DRD/Helgrind with std::shared_timed_mutex::try_lock_until and try_lock_shared_until false
733 446251 TARGET_SIGNAL_THR added to enum target_signal
734 446823 FreeBSD - missing syscalls when using libzm4
735 447991 s390x: Valgrind indicates illegal instruction on wflrx
736 447995 Valgrind segfault on power10 due to hwcap checking code
737 449483 Powerpc: vcmpgtsq., vcmpgtuq,, vcmpequq. instructions not setting the
738 condition code correctly.
739 449672 ppc64 --track-origins=yes failures because of bad cmov addHRegUse
740 449838 sigsegv liburing the 'impossible' happened for io_uring_setup
741 450025 Powerc: ACC file not implemented as a logical overlay of the VSR
743 450437 Warn for execve syscall with argv or argv[0] being NULL
744 450536 Powerpc: valgrind throws 'facility scv unavailable exception'
745 451626 Syscall param bpf(attr->raw_tracepoint.name) points to unaddressable byte(s)
746 451827 [ppc64le] VEX temporary storage exhausted with several vbpermq instructions
747 451843 valgrind fails to start on a FreeBSD system which enforces W^X
749 To see details of a given bug, visit
750 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
751 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
753 (3.19.0.RC1: 02 Apr 2022)
754 (3.19.0.RC2: 08 Apr 2022)