[lttng-dev] [RELEASE] LTTng-Tools 2.5.5 - Fumisterie

[Jérémie Galarneau]

Hi all,

As previously mentioned on this mailing list, LTTng 2.5 is entering
its end of life phase. LTTng-Tools 2.5.5 is a bug-fix release which
addresses a number of bugs reported during the LTTng 2.7.0 development
cycle.

2015-09-24 lttng-tools 2.5.5 (National Punctuation Day)
* Fix: take RCU read-side lock within hash table functions
* Fix: TimeoutExpired in Python tests not defined globally
* Fix: intialization of ust_metadata_poll_pipe to garbage value
* Fix: Use MSG_NOSIGNAL when calling sendmsg()
* Fix: incorrect variable being checked in libc-wrapper test
* Fix: Crash on lttng list -j/-l/-p when no events are present
* Fix: Unbalanced rcu_read_unlock() on stream file creation failure
* Fix: Unbalanced rcu_read_unlock() on directory creation failure
* Fix: Memory leak in relay_add_stream error path
* Fix: set session should not set non-existent session
* Fix: Follow struct dirent allocation guidelines of READDIR(3)
* Update comments regarding the power of 2 constraint on sub-buffer sizes
* Build: add Flex version check
* Build: add Bison version check
* Fix: handle sys_futex() FUTEX_WAIT interrupted by signal
* Fix: metadata push -EPIPE should be recoverable
* Fix: destroy session removes the default config file
* Build: bump autoconf version requirement to 2.64
* Fix: Memory leak in setup of relayd_path
* Fix: Memory allocated by xmlNodeGetContent() must be freed by xmlFree()
* Fix: get_cmdline_by_pid path length assumes a max pid of 65535
* Fix: Mark config string declarations as extern
* Fix: live_test regression on large number of cpus
* Fix: set UST register timeout to -1 as test default
* Tests: Don't rely on implicit scalar expression dereference
* Fix python bindings' Makefile for out-of-tree builds
* Fix: zero memory passed to create channel kernel ioctl
* Fix: Possible call to execvp with NULL argument on allocation failure
* Fix: Save jul event filter bytecode
* Fix: out of tree build by adding missing ini.c include
* Test: java-jul:missing static test files for dist and out of tree build
* Tests: remove unecessary log4j test
* Fix: out-of-tree build: missing xsd file for save-load test execution

As always, please report any issue you may encounter to bugs.lttng.org
or on this mailing list.

Project website: https://lttng.org

Download links:
https://lttng.org/files/lttng-tools/lttng-tools-2.5.5.tar.bz2
GPG sig: https://lttng.org/files/lttng-tools/lttng-tools-2.5.5.tar.bz2.asc

Regards,
Jérémie

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Jérémie Galarneau
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com