What's Changed

• Clear old cache with incompatible format by @rbalint in #1377

Full Changelog: v0.8.6...v0.8.6.1

Highlights

• Support zstd cache compression
• Shortcut touch -r and similar operations

What's Changed

• readme: Stop saying that firebuild can't intercept static binaries because it can now! \o/ :-) by @rbalint in #1363
• ci: Use [email protected] by @rbalint in #1364
• copilot: Update instructions by @rbalint in #1365
• Shortcut touch -r and similar operations by @rbalint in #1366
• build: Add vscode settings by @rbalint in #1367
• supervisor: Don't silently ignore touch -r edge cases by @rbalint in #1368
• Add zstd compression for cache objects and blobs with configurable level by @Copilot in #1341
• Add _codeql to .gitignore by @rbalint in #1372
• Add support for openat2() syscall by @Copilot in #1371
• Register PATH entries as NOTEXIST during exec*p() resolution by @Copilot in #1370
• config: Skip shortcutting unlikely shortcutting points by @rbalint in #1373
• ci: Bump firebuild-action to v4.2 by @rbalint in #1374
• interceptor: Add support for GLibc 2.43's openat2() by @rbalint in #1375

Full Changelog: v0.8.5.1...v0.8.6

What's Changed

• supervisor: Add sphinx's -E option later if -M is set by @rbalint in #1353
• supervisor: Extend error with output of qemu-user binary by @rbalint in #1354
• interceptor: Mark utimensat() and futimens() as safe to intercept remapped by @rbalint in #1355
• readme: Update README.md that qemu-packages are available from firebuild/stable by @rbalint in #1356
• supervisor: Properly shortcut chmod command when it did not create file by @rbalint in #1357
• interceptor: Allow intercepting close() when already intercepting fclose() by @rbalint in #1358
• macos: Don't workaround recursively intercepting close() in fclose() on macOS by @rbalint in #1360
• supervisor: Pass static binaries to qemu with full path as argument by @rbalint in #1359

Full Changelog: v0.8.5...v0.8.5.1

Highlights

• Support intercepting and shortcutting static programs, too, by using qemu-user
• Shortcut Sphinx documentation generator
• Support rewriting build commands to enable better caching

What's Changed

• Add bash completion rules by @rbalint in #1306
• ci: Use firebuild/apt-eatmydata-action instead of prefixing apt with eatmydata by @rbalint in #1307
• tests: Wrap valgrind command directly with close_fds_exec by @rbalint in #1309
• ci: Don't test on Ubuntu 20.04 by @rbalint in #1308
• Portuguese debconf templates translation by @rbalint in #1310
• ci: Update Bitrise's Brew step to version 1 by @rbalint in #1311
• macos: Pass -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=macosx to cmake on macOS by @rbalint in #1312
• debian: Lintian fixes by @rbalint in #1313
• bitrise: Drop cache restoring and saving steps by @rbalint in #1317
• tests: Clean up in "file operations" more thoroughly by @rbalint in #1316
• macos: Handle "compatibility-version" in TBD parsing by @rbalint in #1320
• Add RPM packaging and test it in CI by @rbalint in #1318
• Handle truncate() by @rbalint in #1321
• Added po-debconf Catalan translation by @rbalint in #1322
• Fix bash rebuild autopkgtest on Ubuntu by @rbalint in #1323
• ci: Run CI every Monday at 4:10 AM by @rbalint in #1325
• test: Wait for each cloned process in test_cmd_clone by @rbalint in #1324
• interceptor: Refactor receiving full fbb messages from the supervisor by @rbalint in #1326
• macos: Stop intercepting deprecated posix_spawn_file_actions_add(f)chdir_np by @rbalint in #1328
• Improvements to make code editing more pleasant with VS Code by @rbalint in #1327
• supervisor: Fix intercepting qemu-user running dynamically linked executables by @rbalint in #1329
• Allow rewriting executed intercepted commands and arguments in the supervisor by @rbalint in #1330
• interceptor: Rewrite posix_spawn()'s path parameter, too, not just argv by @rbalint in #1331
• Intercept getrlimit(), setrlimit() and prlimit() calls by @rbalint in #1332
• macos: Decrease parallel sleep's parallelism to fix connect() error by @rbalint in #1333
• Support shortcutting sphinx-build by @rbalint in #1335
• Various small fixes by @rbalint in #1336
• Use qemu-user to intercept static binaries by @rbalint in #1334
• Inline small blobs in object cache to reduce indirection overhead by @Copilot in #1337
• debian: Suggest the out-of-archive qemu-user-interposable package by @rbalint in #1340
• supervisor: Pass -fno-pch-timestamp to clang when -emit-pch is passed by @rbalint in #1339
• github: Add instructions for Copilot to make working with it more efficient by @rbalint in #1344
• ci: Configure and build with Xcode without firebuild temporarily by @rbalint in #1346
• Add magic "FBB\0" header to cache object files and bump cache format version by @Copilot in #1343
• supervisor: Write the magic header and the cache entry in a single call by @rbalint in #1349
• supervisor: Factor out common parts of PipeRecorder::add_data_from_*() by @rbalint in #1350

New Contributors

• @Copilot made their first contribution in #1337

Full Changelog: v0.8.4...v0.8.5

Highlights

• Support GNU Make 4.4
• Use Viz.js for generating call graph in the browser

What's Changed

• interceptor: Allow intercepting some orignal 64bit time and offset related remapped functions by @rbalint in #1288
• report: Use Viz.js for generating call graph in the browser by @rbalint in #1291
• Bitrise: Save built firebuild as a build artifact by @rbalint in #1293
• Load libfirebuild from full path on macOS and when testing on Linux by @rbalint in #1290
• interceptor: Sort environment variables if they were fixed up by the interceptor by @rbalint in #1292
• ci: Build the package on Ubuntu 24.04, too by @rbalint in #1294
• tests: Work around xcodebuild ... -find gcc preventing caching by @rbalint in #1295
• ci: Stop testing on macos-12 runners by @rbalint in #1298
• ci: Close fds up to 200 in close_fds_exec by @rbalint in #1302
• interceptor: Intercept posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np() by @rbalint in #1299
• Support GNU Make 4.4 by @rbalint in #1300
• interceptor: Drop obsolete, commented out CMakeList part by @rbalint in #1303

Full Changelog: v0.8.3...v0.8.4

Highlights

• Support GLibc 2.39
• Experimental OS X support
• Fixed and nicer report in Chrome and other WebKit based browsers
• Even faster Rust build acceleration
• Support time64-enabled 32 bit systems
• Allow selecting passed through environment variables with regular expressions
• Over 100 fixes and improvements

What's Changed

• Drop references to *_generated.h by @rbalint in #1198
• ci: Make brew overwrite files by default by @rbalint in #1200
• Fix sanitizer errors by @rbalint in #1199
• MacOS fixes by @rbalint in #1201
• tests: Fix test_symbols script on OS X by @rbalint in #1202
• ci: Speed up installing test dependencies on MacOS by @rbalint in #1204
• Further OS X improvements by @rbalint in #1203
• Intercept missing underscore ( __* ) functions on OS X and related fixes by @rbalint in #1205
• interceptor: Don't check if *64 variant of already *64 syscalls are intercepted by @rbalint in #1206
• supervisor: Remove fd_ member from FileFD by @rbalint in #1207
• Various small fixes by @rbalint in #1208
• supervisor: Improve debugging output of vectors by @rbalint in #1209
• Allow recursive interception of signal handlers and some libc calls on macOS, too by @rbalint in #1210
• firebuild.conf handling improvements by @rbalint in #1212
• Fix intercepting __mac_syscall() by @rbalint in #1213
• macos: Install hopscotch-map with Homebrew by @rbalint in #1214
• Fix finding libfirebuild library on macOS by @rbalint in #1215
• interceptor: Intercept __opendir2 on macOS by @rbalint in #1216
• supervisor: Always ACK in handle_dlopen() by @rbalint in #1218
• Intercept scandir() variants by @rbalint in #1217
• interceptor: Allow interception inside dlopen() and dlmopen() by @rbalint in #1219
• supervisor: Update cache size and stats on SIG{INT|QUIT|SEGV|TERM} by @rbalint in #1220
• supervisor: Use memcmp() instead of strcmp() where the string lengths are known by @rbalint in #1221
• supervisor: Fix splitting read-only and not read-only locations by @rbalint in #1222
• build: Don't rebuild firebuild.1 man page in every incremental build by @rbalint in #1223
• supervisor: Move member initializations to constants to member definitions. by @rbalint in #1224
• Fix intercepting dlopen() on macOS and handle loading multiple shared libraries by @rbalint in #1225
• supervisor: Ignore dlopen()-ed shared libs which are not present as files on macOS by @rbalint in #1227
• Fix performance regression introduced with the dlopen() related changes by @rbalint in #1230
• When open("foo/bar", O_DIRECTORY) returns -1 with ENOTDIR. assume foo/bar to be regular file by @rbalint in #1229
• Improve kqueue and posix_spawn interception for macOS by @rbalint in #1228
• interceptor: Drop unused code left over from simplifying dlopen() interception by @rbalint in #1232
• Shortcut xcodebuild inside LTO-enabled linking by @rbalint in #1231
• Handle posix_spawn() with POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC attribute on macOS by @rbalint in #1233
• supervisor: Detect rustc when it is executed with its full path, too by @rbalint in #1234
• test: Increase integration test coverage a bit by @rbalint in #1236
• supervisor: Fix unused parameter in handle_kqueue by @rbalint in #1235
• test: Test posix file actions handling by @rbalint in #1237
• Extend ENOTDIR handling by @rbalint in #1239
• Ignore connecting to "/var/run/syslog" UNIX socket on macOS. by @rbalint in #1241
• build: Declare Homebrew dependencies in Brewfile by @rbalint in #1242
• interceptor: Intercept GLibc 2.39's pidfd_spawn() and pidfd_spawnp() by @rbalint in #1243
• ci: Add missing graphviz formula to Brewfile by @rbalint in #1244
• CI: Faster .deb builds by @rbalint in #1245
• ci: Really don't build dbgsym packages along with .debs by @rbalint in #1246
• supervisor: Ignore connect()-ing to the sockets listed in ignore_locations by @rbalint in #1247
• interceptor: Reset rusage timers when reporting rusage to the supervisor by @rbalint in #1248
• Add firebuild -q option by @rbalint in #1249
• Swedish debconf template translation by @rbalint in #1250
• supervisor: Check on macOS that the system allows interception by @rbalint in #1251
• interceptor: Sort loaded shared libraries in scproc_query by @rbalint in #1252
• interceptor: Identify posix_spawn_file_actions_t handles by their full content by @rbalint in #1253
• CI: Simplify the macos job by @rbalint in #1254
• build: Configure include and library paths in CMake by @rbalint in #1255
• ci: Use all avaliable processors on GitHub runners by @rbalint in #1257
• ci: Add Bitrise CI configuration by @rbalint in #1260
• ci: Build with xcodebuild, too, on macOS by @rbalint in #1259
• ci: Build and test Firebuild on macOS 14, too by @rbalint in #1258
• build: Use jinja2-cli Homebrew formula instead of the just removed python-jinja by @rbalint in #1262
• Fix posix_spawn pre-open handling by @rbalint in #1261
• report: Deduplicate used shared libs by @rbalint in #1263
• supervisor: Don't reopen inherited closed pipe by @rbalint in #1265
• debian: Switch order of autopkgtest tests by @rbalint in #1266
• supervisor: Ignore rustc's --out-dir directory's content by @rbalint in #1269
• interceptor: Fix use-after-free in readlink() interception by @rbalint in #1270
• supervisor: Fix unhandled case in ENOTDIR handling by @rbalint in #1271
• Small debuggability fixes by @rbalint in #1272
• ci: Upgrade to use actions/checkout@v4 to avoid deprecation warnings on GitHub by @rbalint in #1273
• interceptor: Intercept __send on arm64 Linux by @rbalint in #1274
• interceptor: Fix casting to the right passed size_t type in count_shared_libs_cb by @rbalint in #1275
• test: Fix running integration tests under different locales by @rbalint in #1276
• Fix armhf build with 64 bit time and file offset representation by @rbalint in #1277
• supervisor: Work around Clang ASan falsely detecting leaking config strings by @rbalint in #1279
• supervisor: Don't override SIGSEGV handler when dumping core is allowed by @rbalint in #1280
• Fix closing blob fds by @rbalint in #1281
• interceptor: Don't intercept __send on arm64 Linux starting with glibc 2.34 by @rbalint in #1282
• supervisor: Select passed through environment variables with regular expressions by @rbalint in #1283
• supervisor: Don't intercept sandbox-exec by @rbalint in #1284
• report: Tidy up the command details by @rbalint in #1285

Full Changelog: v0.8.2...v0.8.3

Highlights

• Support GNU Libc 2.38

What's Changed

• Fix 32bit builds in #1191
• ci: Upgrade docker job to run multiple releases on Ubuntu and add Debian #1192
• Autopkgtest with installed firebuild in #1194
• supervisor: Support GLibc 2.38 passing "--" right after "sh -c" in #1193

Full Changelog: v0.8.1...v0.8.2

Highlights

• Much reduced memory footprint
• Reduced report size
• Improved acceleration of Rust build scripts

What's Changed

• artwork: Fix the circle in the logo to be really round
• interceptor: Factor out some fd read write state handling from templates
• Report error code when a call reported only once fails
• interceptor: Treat successful copy_file_range() and sendfile() calls as reads and writes
• report: Include file name and process potentially writing the file in parallel
• report: List only directly and not transitively used filed in process details
• report: Deduplicate used file strings
• report: Register used files at the shortcut process when generating the report
• report: Deduplicate process environments
• supervisor: Run main loop until all interceptor connections and pipes are closed
• supervisor: Run all cleanup and destructors when FB_EXTRA_DEBUG is defined
• ci: Run coverage test on Debug build and increase required coverage
• interceptor: Intercept __vfork for glibc < 2.34
• supervisor: Show maximum resident set with "-d time"
• supervisor: Defer clearing obsolete finalized ExecedProcess data
• supervisor: Free whole finalized process subtrees when it is safe
• interceptor: Fix calling handle_exit()
• supervisor: Track the common ancestor of processes keeping files open for writing
• supervisor: Track the process exec_point() for files opened for writing
• interceptor: Perform seccomp() calls in not intercepted processes
• Use global buffer size for paths
• supervisor: Don't use alloca() in garbage collection loops

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.8.1

Highlights

• Rust + Cargo builds and Intel Fortran Compiler are now accelerated
• Javac and Javadoc are accelerated again
• Maximum cache entry size is now configurable
• Ccache is disabled by default within Firebuild-accelerated builds

What's Changed

• portability: Fixes to build on Mac OS X (interception is not functional yet)
• readme: Mention packages in the Arch Linux (AUR), Debian and Ubuntu archives
• interceptor: Intercept seccomp() calls and always return with EINVAL error
  Fixes intercepting and caching man commands
• supervisor: Add default quirk to ignore successful statfs() and fstatfs() calls
  Fixes shortcutting Doxygen
• tests: Fix building all binaries for valgrind-check target
• ci: Split running tests with valgrind to a separate job
• supervisor: Fall back to pread() when mmap() fails when hashing a file
  Fixes shortcutting Java and javadoc again after their behavior changes
• ci: Use firebuild to speed up firebuild builds on Linux
• ci: Use latest Clang and scan-build versions
• supervisor: Cache "sh" again by default and
• supervisor: Skip caching command when parent sh -c "" can be cached
• supervisor: Ignore missing configuration settings instead of crashing
• supervisor: Rename system_locations configuration entry to read_only_locations
• interceptor: Make relative or absolute unsuccessfully dlopen()-ed paths absolute
• supervisor: Treat unsuccessfully dlopen()-ed files using absolute filename as missing
  Fixes shortcutting Intel Fortran Compiler (ifort).
• supervisor: Fix saved bytes accounting
• supervisor: Verify stored bytes accounting in Debug builds
• supervisor: Fix invalid stored cache size
• supervisor: Don't report missing possible debug files when debugging cache during GC
• ci: Add CodeQL analysis
• supervisor: Intercept ccache, but set it to run the original compiler
  This allows relying on firebuild's caching by default even when ccache
  is installed.
• supervisor: Shortcut only ccache and not child gcc/g++/etc. command
• tests: Don't disable ccache in test helper scripts
  Ccache is now disabled within firebuild by default.
• Ignore communication with GNU Make's and Cargo's jobserver
  This lets shortcutting processes that read tokens from the jobserver.
• interceptor: Ignore getcap syscall
  It is used by Python and Node
• supervisor: Don't store hash of dependency directory listing for rustc
  This allows shortcutting Rust + Cargo builds
• interceptor: Report getrandom syscalls
• interceptor: utimensat syscall accepts NULL pathname
• supervisor: Allow configuring maximal cache entry size with default of 250MB
• report: Include why shortcutting attempts failed
• debian: Update short and long package description

Full Changelog: v0.2.12...v0.8.0

What's Changed

• Handle system(NULL)
• Detect inherited file backed fds that are not not seeked to the end in the interceptor
• report: Don't break line inside a single environment variable
• interceptor: Wide scanf variants return EOF, too, not WEOF
• interceptor: Fix syscall template to honor rettype and ifdef_guard
• supervisor: Prevent adding an fd with epoll_ctl() twice to avoid errors and crashes
• supervisor: Deduplicate dynamically allocated reasons of not shortcutting
• report: Include more verbose reasons for not not shortcutting
• report: Don't escape "/" in JSON strings
• report: Escape used files to not break the JSON format
• Dutch translation of debconf messages
• Spanish translation of the debconf template
• Brazilian Portuguese debconf templates translation

Full Changelog: v0.2.11...v0.2.12