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Wed Mar 11 11:25:34 2009  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 1.1 release
	* Dynamically resize thread caches -- nice perf. improvement (kash)
	* Add VDSO support to give better stacktraces in linux (ppluzhnikov)
	* Improve heap-profiling sampling algorithm (ford)
	* Rewrite leak-checking code: should be faster and more robust (sanjay)
	* Use ps2 instead of ps for dot: better page cropping for gv (csilvers)
	* Disable malloc-failure warning messages by default (csilvers)
	* Update config/Makefile to disable tests on a per-OS basis (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Get perftools compiling under MSVC 7.1 again (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Get perftools compiling under cygwin again (csilvers)
	* PORTING: automatically set library flags for solaris x86 (csilvers)
	* Add TCMALLOC_SKIP_SBRK to mirror TCMALLOC_SKIP_MMAP (csilvers)
	* Add --enable flags to allow selective building (csilvers)
	* Put addr2line-pdb and nm-pdb in proper output directory (csilvers)
	* Remove deprecated DisableChecksIn (sanjay)
	* DOCUMENTATION: Document most MallocExtension routines (csilvers)
	
Tue Jan  6 13:58:56 2009  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 1.0 release
	* Exactly the same as 1.0rc2

Sun Dec 14 17:10:35 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 1.0rc2 release
	* Fix compile error on 64-bit systems (casting ptr to int) (csilvers)

Thu Dec 11 16:01:32 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 1.0rc1 release
	* Replace API for selectively disabling heap-checker in code (sanjay)
	* Add a pre-mmap hook (daven, adlr)
	* Add MallocExtension interface to set memory-releasing rate (fikes)
	* Augment pprof to allow any string ending in /pprof/profile (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Rewrite -- and fix --  malloc patching for windows (dvitek)
	* PORTING: Add nm-pdb and addr2line-pdb for use by pprof (dvitek)
	* PORTING: Improve cygwin and mingw support (jperkins, csilvers)
	* PORTING: Fix pprof for mac os x, other pprof improvements (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Fix some PPC bugs in our locking code (anton.blanchard)
	* A new unittest, smapling_test, to verify tcmalloc-profiles (csilvers)
	* Turn off TLS for gcc < 4.1.2, due to a TLS + -fPIC bug (csilvers)
	* Prefer __builtin_frame_address to assembly for stacktraces (nlewycky)
	* Separate tcmalloc.cc out into multiple files -- finally! (kash)
	* Make our locking code work with -fPIC on 32-bit x86 (aruns)
	* Fix an initialization-ordering bug for tcmalloc/profiling (csilvers)
	* Use "initial exec" model of TLS to speed up tcmalloc (csilvers)
	* Enforce 16-byte alignment for tcmalloc, for SSE (sanjay)
	
Tue Sep 23 08:56:31 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.99.2 release
	* COMPILE FIX: add #include needed for FreeBSD and OS X (csilvers)

Sat Sep 20 09:37:18 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.99.1 release
	* BUG FIX: look for nm, etc in /usr/bin, not /usr/crosstool (csilvers)

Thu Sep 18 16:00:27 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.99 release
	* Add IsHeapProfileRunning (csilvers)
	* Add C shims for some of the C++ header files (csilvers)
	* Fix heap profile file clean-up logic (maxim)
	* Rename linuxthreads.c to .cc for better compiler support (csilvers)
	* Add source info to disassembly in pprof (sanjay)
	* Use open instead of fopen to avoid memory alloc (csilvers)
	* Disable malloc extensions when running under valgrind (kcc)
	* BUG FIX: Fix out-of-bound error by reordering a check (larryz)
	* Add Options struct to ProfileData (cgd)
	* Correct PC-handling of --base in pprof (csilvers)
	* Handle 1 function occurring twice in an image (sanjay)
	* Improve stack-data cleaning (maxim)
	* Use 'struct Foo' to make header C compatible (csilvers)
	* Add 'total' line to pprof --text (csilvers)
	* Pre-allocate buffer for heap-profiler to avoid OOM errors (csilvers)
	* Allow a few more env-settings to control tcmalloc (csilvers)
	* Document some of the issues involving thread-local storage (csilvers)
	* BUG FIX: Define strtoll and friends for windows (csilvers)

Mon Jun  9 16:47:03 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.98 release
	* Add ProfilerStartWithOptions() (cgd)
	* Change tcmalloc_minimal to not do any stack-tracing at all (csilvers)
	* Prefer mmap to sbrk for 64-buit debug mode (sanjay)
	* Fix accounting for some tcmalloc stats (sanjay)
	* Use setrlimit() to keep unittests from killing the machine (odo)
	* Fix a bug when sbrk-ing near address 4G (csilvers)
	* Make MallocHook thread-safe (jyasskin)
	* Fix windows build for MemoryBarrier (jyasskin)
	* Fix CPU-profiler docs to mention correct libs (csilvers)
	* Fix for GetHeapProfile() when heap-profiling is off (maxim)
	* Avoid realloc resizing ping-pongs using hysteresis (csilvers)
	* Add --callgrind output support to pprof (klimek)
	* Fix profiler.h and heap-profiler.h to be C-compatible (csilvers)
	* Break malloc_hook.h into two parts to reduce dependencies (csilvers)
	* Better handle systems that don't implement mmap (csilvers)
	* PORTING: disable system_alloc_unittest for msvc (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Makefile tweaks to build better on cygwin (csilvers)
	
Mon Apr 21 15:20:52 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.97 release
	* Refactor GetHeapProfile to avoid using malloc (maxim)
	* Fix heap-checker and heap-profiler hook interactions (maxim)
	* Fix a data race in MemoryRegionMap::Lock (jyasskin)
	* Improve thread-safety of leak checker (maxim)
	* Fix mmap profile to no longer deadlock (maxim)
	* Fix rpm to have devel package depend on non-devel (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Fix clock-speed detection for Mac OS X (csilvers)

Tue Mar 18 14:30:44 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.96 release
	* major atomicops rewrite; fixed atomic ops code for linux/ppc (vchen)
	* nix the stacktrace library; now build structure is simpler (csilvers)
	* Speed up heap-checker, and reduce extraneous logging (maxim)
	* Improve itimer code for NPTL case (cgd)
	* Add source code annotations for use by valgrind, etc (kcc)
	* PORTING: Fix high resolution timers for Mac OS X (adlr)

Tue Feb 19 12:01:31 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.95.1 release  (bugfix release)
	* x86_64 compile-fix: nix pread64 and pwrite64 (csilvers)
	* more heap-checker debug logging (maxim)
	* minor improvement to x86_64 CycleClock (gpike)

Tue Feb 12 12:28:32 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.95 release
	* Better -- not perfect -- support for linux-ppc (csilvers)
	* Fix race condition in libunwind stacktrace (aruns)
	* Speed up x86 spinlock locking (m3b)
	* Improve heap-checker performance (maxim)
	* Heap checker traverses more ptrs inside heap-alloced objects (maxim)
	* Remove deprecated ProfilerThreadState function (cgd)
	* Update libunwind documentation for statically linked binaries (aruns)

Mon Dec  3 23:51:54 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.94.1 release  (bugfix release)
	* Fix missing #includes for x86_64 compile using libunwind (csilvers)

Thu Nov 29 07:59:43 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.94 release
	* PORTING: MinGW/Msys support -- runs same code as MSVC does (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Add NumCPUs support for Mac OS X (csilvers)
	* Work around a sscanf bug in glibc(?) (waldemar)
	* Fix Windows MSVC bug triggered by thread deletion (csilvers)
	* Fix bug that triggers in MSVC /O2: missing volatile (gpike)
	* March-of-time support: quiet warnings/errors for gcc 4.2, OS X 10.5
	* Modify pprof so it works without nm: useful for windows (csilvers)
	* pprof: Support filtering for CPU profiles (cgd)
	* Bugfix: have realloc report to hooks in all situations (maxim)
	* Speed improvement: replace slow memcpy with std::copy (soren)
	* Speed: better iterator efficiency in RecordRegionRemoval (soren)
	* Speed: minor speed improvements via better bitfield alignment (gpike)
	* Documentation: add documentation of binary profile output (cgd)
	
Fri Aug 17 12:32:56 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.93 release
	* PORTING: everything compiles on Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD (see INSTALL)
	* PORTING: cpu-profiler works on most platforms (much better GetPC())
	* PORTING: heap-profiler works on most platforms
	* PORTING: improved windows support, including release builds
	* No longer build or run ptmalloc tests by default
	* Add support for using memfs filesystem to allocate memory in linux
	* WINDOWS: give debug library and release library different names
	
Tue Jul 17 22:26:27 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.92 release
	* PERFORMANCE: use a packed cache to speed up tcmalloc
	* PORTING: preliminary windows support! (see README.windows)
	* PORTING: better support for solaris, OS X, FreeBSD (see INSTALL)
	* Envvar support for running the heap-checker under gdb
	* Add weak declarations to maybe_threads to fix no-pthreads compile bugs
	* Some 64bit fixes, especially with pprof
	* Better heap-checker support for some low-level allocations
	* Fix bug where heap-profiles would sometimes get truncated
	* New documentation about how to handle common heap leak situations
	* Use computed includes for hash_map/set: easier config
	* Added all used .m4 templates to the distribution

Wed Apr 18 16:43:55 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.91 release
	* Brown-paper-bag bugfix: compilation error on some x86-64 machines

Fri Apr 13 14:50:51 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.90 release
	* (As the version-number jump hints, this is a major new release:
	  almost every piece of functionality was rewritten.  I can't do
	  justice to all the changes, but will concentrate on highlights.)
	*** USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
	* Ability to "release" unused memory added to tcmalloc
	* Exposed more tweaking knobs via environment variables (see docs)
	* pprof tries harder to map addresses to functions
	* tcmalloc_minimal compiles and runs on FreeBSD 6.0 and Solaris 10
	*** INTERNAL CHANGES:
	* Much better 64-bit support
	* Better multiple-processor support (e.g. multicore contention tweaks)
	* Support for recent kernel ABI changes (e.g. new arg to mremap)
	* Addition of spinlocks to tcmalloc to reduce contention cost
	* Speed up tcmalloc by using __thread on systems that support TLS
	* Total redesign of heap-checker to improve liveness checking
	* More portable stack-frame analysis -- no more hard-coded constants!
	* Disentangled heap-profiler code and heap-checker code
	* Several new unittests to test, e.g., thread-contention costs
	* Lots of small (but important!) bug fixes: e.g., fixing GetPC on amd64
	*** KNOWN PROBLEMS:
	* CPU-profiling may crash on x86_64 (64-bit) systems.  See the README
	* Profiling/heap-checking may deadlock on x86_64 systems.  See README

Wed Jun 14 15:11:14 2006  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.8 release
	* Experimental support for remote profiling added to pprof (many)
	* Fixed race condition in ProfileData::FlushTable (etune)
	* Better support for weird /proc maps (maxim, mec)
	* Fix heap-checker interaction with gdb (markus)
	* Better 64-bit support in pprof (aruns)
	* Reduce scavenging cost in tcmalloc by capping NumMoveSize (sanjay)
	* Cast syscall(SYS_mmap); works on more 64-bit systems now (menage)
	* Document the text output of pprof! (csilvers)
	* Better compiler support for no-THREADS and for old compilers (csilvers)
	* Make libunwind the default stack unwinder for x86-64 (aruns)
	* Somehow the COPYING file got erased.  Regenerate it (csilvers)

Thu Apr 13 20:59:09 2006  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.7 release
	* Major rewrite of thread introspection for new kernels (markus)
	* Major rewrite of heap-checker to use new thread tools (maxim)
	* Add proper support for following data in thread registers (maxim)
	* Syscall support for older kernels, including _syscall6 (markus)
	* Support PIC mode (markus, mbland, iant)
	* Better support for running in non-threaded contexts (csilvers)

Fri Jan 27 14:04:27 2006  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.6 release
	* More sophisticated stacktrace usage, possibly using libunwind (aruns)
	* Update pprof to handle 64-bit profiles (dehnert)
	* Fix GetStackTrace to correctly return top stackframe (sanjay)
	* Add ANSI compliance for new and new[], including new_handler (jkearney)
	* More accuracy by reading ELF files directly rather than objdump (mec)
	* Add readline support for pprof (addi)
	* Add #includes for PPC (csilvers)
	* New PC-detection routine for ibook powerpc (asbestoshead)
	* Vastly improved tcmalloc unittest (csilvers)
	* Move documentation from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc

Mon Nov 14 17:28:59 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.5 release
	* Add va_start/va_end calls around vsnprintf() (csilvers)
	* Write our own __syscall_return(), since it's not defined
	  consistently on all 64-bit linux distros (markus)

Wed Oct 26 15:19:16 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.4 release
	* Decrease fragmentation in tcmalloc (lefevere)
	* Support for ARM in some of the thread-specific code (markus)
	* Turn off heap-checker for statically-linked binaries, which
	  cause error leak reports now (etune)
	* Many pprof improvements, including a command-line interface (jeff)
	* CPU profiling now automatically affects all threads in linux 2.6.
	  (Kernel bugs break CPU profiling and threads in linux 2.4 a bit.)
	  ProfilerEnable() and ProfilerDisable() are deprecated.  (sanjay)
	* tcmalloc now correctly intercepts memalign (m3b, maxim)
	* Syntax fix: added missing va_end()s.  Helps non-gcc compiling (etune)
	* Fixed a few coredumper bugs: race condition after PTRACE_DETACH,
	  ignore non-aligned stackframe pointers (markus, menage)
	* 64-bit cleanup, especially for spinlock code (etune) and mmap (sanjay)
	* Better support for finding threads in linux (markus)
	* tcmalloc now tracks those stack traces that allocate memory (sanjay)
	* Work around a weird setspecific problem (sanjay)
	* Fix tcmalloc overflow problems when an alloc is close to 2G/4G (sanjay)

Fri Jun 24 18:02:26 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.3 release
	* Add missing errno include for one of the unittests (csilvers)
	* Reduce tcmalloc startup memory from 5M to 256K (sanjay)
	* Add support for mallopt() and mallinfo (sanjay)
	* Improve stacktrace's performance on some 64-bit systems (etune)
	* Improve the stacktrace unittest (etune)

Tue May 31 08:14:38 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.2 release
	* Use mmap2() instead of mmap(), to map more memory (menage)
	* Do correct pthread-local checking in heap-checker! (maxim)
	* Avoid overflow on 64-bit machines in pprof (sanjay)
	* Add a few more GetPC() functions, including for AMD (csilvers)
	* Better method for overriding pthread functions (menage)
	* (Hacky) fix to avoid overwriting profile files after fork() (csilvers)
	* Crashing bugfix involving dumping heaps on small-stack threads (tudor)
	* Allow library versions with letters at the end (csilvers)
	* Config fixes for systems that don't define PATH_MAX (csilvers)
	* Confix fixes so we no longer need config.h after install (csilvers)
	* Fix to pprof to correctly read very big cpu profiles (csilvers)
	* Fix to pprof to deal with new commandline flags in modern gv's
	* Better error reporting when we can't access /proc/maps (etune)
	* Get rid of the libc-preallocate code (which could crash on some
	  systems); no longer needed with local-threads fix (csilvers)

Tue Feb 8 09:57:17 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: initial release:
	  The google-perftools package contains some utilities to improve
	  and analyze the performance of C++ programs.  This includes an
	  optimized thread-caching malloc() and cpu and heap profiling
	  utilities.