This file details the changelog of Capstone. --------------------------------- Version 2.0: January 22nd, 2014 Release 2.0 deprecates verison 1.0 and brings a lot of crucial changes. [ API changes ] - API version has been bumped to 2.0 (see cs_version() API) - New API cs_strerror(errno) returns a string describing error code given in its only argument. - cs_version() now returns combined version encoding both major & minor versions. - New option CS_OPT_MODE allows to change engine’s mode at run-time with cs_option(). - New option CS_OPT_MEM allows to specify user-defined functions for dynamically memory management used internally by Capstone. This is useful to embed Capstone into special environments such as kernel or firware. - New API cs_support() can be used to check if this lib supports a particular architecture (this is necessary since we now allow to choose which architectures to compile in). - The detail option is OFF by default now. To get detail information, it should be explicitly turned ON. The details then can be accessed using cs_insn.detail pointer (to newly added structure cs_detail) [ Core changes ] - On memory usage, Capstone uses much less memory, but a lot faster now. - User now can choose which architectures to be supported by modifying config.mk before compiling/installing. [ Architectures ] - Arm - Support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). - Support friendly register, so instead of output sub "r12,r11,0x14", we have "sub ip,fp,0x14". - Arm64: support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). - PowerPC: newly added. - Mips: support friendly register, so instead of output "srl $2,$1,0x1f", we have "srl $v0,$at,0x1f". - X86: bug fixes. [ Python binding ] - Python binding is vastly improved in performance: around 3 ~ 4 times faster than in 1.0. - Cython support has been added, which can further speed up over the default pure Python binding (up to 30% in some cases) - Function cs_disasm_quick() & Cs.disasm() now use generator (rather than a list) to return succesfully disassembled instructions. This improves the performance and reduces memory usage. [ Java binding ] - Better performance & bug fixes. [ Miscellaneous ] - Fixed some installation issues with Gentoo Linux. - Capstone now can easily compile/install on all *nix, including Linux, OSX, {Net, Free, Open}BSD & Solaris. ---------------------------------- [Version 1.0]: December 18th, 2013 - Initial public release.