ChangeLog

This file details the changelog of Capstone.

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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.

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[Version 1.0]: December 18th, 2013

- Initial public release.