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Noteworthy changes in strace 5.4 (2019-11-28)
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* Improvements
  * Implemented -DD and -DDD options that move strace into a separate
    process group and session, respectively.
  * Enhanced seccomp-bpf tracee syscall filtering support by implementing
    new "binary match" BPF program generation strategy and automatically
    choosing the strategy that generates the shortest BPF program.
  * Implemented decoding of BPF_BTF_GET_NEXT_ID bpf syscall command.
  * Enhanced decoding of BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_ELEM bpf syscall command.
  * Implemented PTP_CLOCK_GETCAPS2, PTP_EXTTS_REQUEST2, PTP_PEROUT_REQUEST2,
    PTP_ENABLE_PPS2, and PTP_SYS_OFFSET2 ioctl decoding.
  * Updated lists of BPF_*, CAN_*, KEXEC_*, KVM_*, MADV_*, MSG_*, P_*, PR_*,
    PTP_*, SCTP_*, and V4L2_* constants.
  * Implemented ability to build ARM EABI mpers support using a separate
    compiler on aarch64.
  * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.4.
  * Enhanced manual page.

* Bug fixes
  * Fixed -b execve when --seccomp-bpf option is specified.
  * Fixed decoding of BPF_PROG_LOAD bpf syscall command.
  * Fixed build on no-MMU architectures.
  * Fixed build on antique systems that do not provide necessary definitions
    of AUDIT_ARCH_* constants.

Contributors
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This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports.  These include:

* Andreas Schwab
* Baruch Siach
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Elvira Khabirova
* Eugene Syromyatnikov
* Fanda Uchytil
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Paul Chaignon

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.