v1.9.0

What's Changed

• Check for false positives in jmp_case_candidates by @CptGibbon in #198
• Replace obsolescent egrep with grep -E by @rad4day in #199
• Add --dwarf-start=0 option to remove the file path in the output by @lebr0nli in #205
• Enhance the constraints for argv and envp by @lebr0nli in #206

New Contributors

• @CptGibbon made their first contribution in #198
• @rad4day made their first contribution in #199
• @lebr0nli made their first contribution in #205

Full Changelog: v1.8.1...v1.9.0

v1.8.1

Refined gadget scoring (#190 )

See #187 for the differences of gadgets compare to v1.8.0.

v1.8.0

Consider posix_spawn as one-gadgets

This new feature adds at least 3 one-gadgets for libc >= 2.29!

Builds

Support up to libc-2.35.

v1.7.4

Bug Fixes

• Fix missing gadgets when two gadgets are too close (#122)
• Use strict keyword arguments representation for Ruby 2.8 (#127)
  • to suppress the "Using the last argument as keyword parameters is deprecated" warning since Ruby 2.7
• Add writable constraints to x86 archs (#156)

Enhancements

• Add libc-2.29, 2.30, 2.31, and 2.32 builds

v1.7.3

• Added constraint for XMM alignment (#87)
• Added --base option (#100)

v1.7.2

• Added --near options (#76), thanks @umutoztunc !
• Changed target Ruby version to >= 2.3
• Added two libc builds from the latest Ubuntu16.04

v1.7.1

• Fixed incorrect UnsupportedArchitectureError on non-english locales (#73)

v1.7.0

Feature

• Supported a new architecture: AArch64!
• Approximately 1.5 times faster than before. (#68)
• Added 43 builds (updated to the latest libcdb).

Internal Changes

• Added more error classes.
• Supported checking objdump's supported architectures.
• Supported new constraint type: writable. (#69)
• Introduced scoring system on constraints. (#67, #69)
• Removed unnecessary module ClassMethods.

Bug Fix

• Fix a bug happens in libc-2.28 (1810bd7).

v1.6.2

• Make one_gadget as library (#47)
• Fix circular require (707aeb7)

v1.6.1

• Show descriptive error message when encounter unintended usage (#38, #40)
• Improved update checking (#42, #43)