Subject Libabigail 1.0.rc3 is out!

[Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org>]

Hello,

Libabigail  1.0.rc3 has been released.

You can download it at http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/libabigail/libabigail-1.0.rc3.tar.gz.

Libabigail is a library which aims at constructing, manipulating,
serializing and de-serializing ABI-relevant artifacts.

It also comes with a set of associated command line tools to compare the
ABI of ELF binaries resulting from the compilation of C or C++ programs.

Typical use cases of libabigail tools include detecting ABI incompatible
changes across several releases of shared libraries, for instance.

Users can of course write their own tools using the library.

The library comes with extensive API documentation available online at
https://sourceware.org/libabigail/apidoc.  The tools are documented
online as well at https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/libabigail-tools.html.

Below is a summary of the significant changes brought to you in this
new release:

    Dodji Seketeli:
	  Upate build instructions on the website
	  Bug 19138 - Failure to relate variables address from DWARF and ELF
	  Include missing <algorithm> to abg-dwarf-reader.cc
	  Make enum values take 64 bits on all platforms
	  Use worker threads pattern to speed up some tests
	  Sort the tests run in tests/ by running the slowest ones first
	  Bug 19434 - invalid character in attribute value
	  Bug 19141 - Libabigail doesn't support common ELF symbols
	  Pass parm of elf_symbol::add_alias by reference
	  Bug 19204 - libabigail aborts on DWARF referencing non-existing DIE
	  Comparing aliases of the same symbol must be done by pointer
	  Do not crash when looking up a type from global scope
	  Fix abicompat's handling of library types not used by the application
	  Fix synthesizing of pointer type
	  Fix synthesizing of reference type
	  Bug 19596 - Incorrect exit status for incompatible ABI change
	  Use proper WIFEXITED and WEXITSTATUS macros to get exit code
	  Bug 19604 - abidiff --suppressions doesn't complain about invalid file name
	  Make abipkgdiff return correct exit code on usage error
	  Make abipkgdiff check for the presence of suppression spec files
	  Talk about mandatory properties in suppress_* directives
	  Add a comment about libabigail needing elfutils 0.159 at least.
	  Bug 19606 - Need better error message for invalid options
	  Prefix abidiff error message with the 'abidiff' program name
	  Emit more informational messages on unrecognized options
	  Bug 19619 - failing to suppress added aliased function reports for C++
	  Add function lookup by linkage name to libabigail::corpus
	  Bug 19638 - DWARF reader fails to link clone function to its declaration
	  Add --verbose option to abidiff
	  Bug 19658 - Type canonicalization slow for the 2nd binary loaded
	  Add missing inequality operators for ABI artifacts
	  Fix crash when handling templates with empty patterns
	  Implement string interning for Libabigail
	  Some small speed optimizations
	  Bug 19706 - Core dump from abidiff with suppression
	  Update mentions to the build dependencies in the doc
	  Make libabigail link with pthread
	  Add --verbose to abidw
	  Fixup virtual member functions with linkage and no underlying symbol
	  Bug 19596 - Suppressed removed symbol changes still considered incompatible
	  Bug 19778 - diff_has_ancestor_filtered_out() loops forever
	  Bug 19780 - abipkgdiff doesn't support parallel execution
	  Fix reference to test file in Makefile.am
	  Walk function_type_diff tree in a deterministic way

    Mark Wielaard:
	  Fix GCC6 -Wmisleading-indentation warnings.
	  Make make more silent.
	  Remove defined but not used functions pointed out by GCC6.

    Ondrej Oprala:
	  Escape the value of the filepath attribute.

Many thanks to those who contributed to this release with bug reports,
comments or code.

Happy Hacking and may all significant binary interface changes of your
libraries be noticed!

-- 
		Dodji