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0.8.16
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  * Add a network check with configurable timeout (KDUMP_NET_TIMEOUT)
  * Improve network setup (VLANs, bridges, bonding)
  * Get network configuration from wicked if possible
  * Enhance "kdumptool calibrate" output
  * Install systemd unit file
  * Add a separate systemd service to rebuild kdumprd at boot
  * Drop dependency on libssh2 (use system ssh binary for SFTP)
  * IPv6 modes for KDUMP_NETCONFIG
  * Honour KDUMP_IMMEDIATE_REBOOT with fadump
  * KDUMP_FADUMP_SHELL option to allow debugging of fadump
  * Support for dracut's systemd module
  * Override kdump device systemd job timeout (using rd.timeout)
  * Take framebuffer size into account for calibrate
  * Take constant-size slabs (ACPI and ftrace) into account for calibrate
  * Security: use full path to dracut in mkdumprd (CVE-2016-5759)
  * Bugfix: use device from /etc/fstab to mount / and /boot
  * Bugfix: use proper regexp in multipath.conf

0.8.15
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  * Disable memory cgroup in kdump kernel
  * Limit the number of CPUs on all architectures
  * Increase udevd memory requirements
  * If possible, use wicked to determine network mode
  * Take number of possible CPUs into account for calibrate

0.8.14
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  * Disable ACPI memory hotplug in kdump kernel
  * Update kernel and initrd estimates
  * Bugfix: install mount-kdump.sh to dracut module directory

0.8.13
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  * Store current configuration if KDUMP_NETCONFIG is static
  * Modify kdump udev rules to work with systemd (and clean them up)
  * Support percent-encoded URLs for KDUMP_SAVEDIR

0.8.12
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  * Add "ssh" target protocol to transfer the file over the standard input
    to a remote host using the standard ssh client
  * Prevent double mount of the root file system
  * Allow taking remote dumps without mounting any file systems

0.8.11
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  * Use fast xz compression with dracut
  * Mount boot/root partition only if needed

0.8.10
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  * Support snappy compression algorithm
  * Improved algorithm for "calibrate"
  * Network support for dracut
  * Filter out DomU pages, when dumping a Xen virtualization host
  * Do not try to copy separate debuginfo files
  * Unit test for FilePath::listDir()
  * delete_dumps: ignore non-kdump directories

0.8.9
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  * Fixed dracut hook install
  * Fix /kdump/boot link if /boot is not on a separate partition
  * Fix debug mode in load_kdump()

0.8.8
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  * Support as a dracut module
  * New kdumptool command: calibrate
  * New kdumptool flag: NOSPLIT
  * Add disable_cpu_apicid parameter to the command line on x86 to prevent
    bringing up the BSP in the kdump kernel.
  * Use nr_cpus instead of maxcpus with recent kernels.

0.8.7
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  * Change libelf interface to elfutils (libelf1)
  * Fix parsing of command line options (e.g. --dump for save_dump)
  * Add new tests
  * Many code cleanups

0.8.6
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  * Support for IPv6 targets
  * Unmount all filesystems before rebooting in the kdump environment

0.8.5
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  * Always use /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab.
  * Do not use formatting on dumb terminals (e.g. the 3270 console).
  * Add a new command that modifies multipath.conf to blacklist all
    devices except those specified on the command line: multipath
  * Store a modified multipath.conf in the initrd if needed.
  * Close a race condition between creating the kdump initrd and
    restricting its file permissions to avoid information leak.
  * Change sysconfig.kdump defaults:
      o KDUMP_CONTINUE_ON_ERROR now defaults to true
      o KDUMP_DUMPLEVEL now defaults to 31
      o KDUMP_CPUS is considered EXPERIMENTAL and unstable
  * Add KDUMP_FADUMP as a configuration option.
  * Improve the kdump kernel command line:
      o Disable zfcp LUN scan on s390(x)
      o Do not allocate hugepages
  * Include hpwdt kernel module in the kdump kernel if HP hardware is found.

0.8.4
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  * Do not reboot after taking a dump with fadump.
  * Add a new command to dump the configuration variables: dump_config
  * Configuration options can be passed via the kernel command line.
  * Add a helper script (kdump-bootloader.pl) for updating the boot
    loader configuration.
  * Support for kdump on S/390x.

0.8.3
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  * Update the text of the license (new FSF address).
  * Basic support for fadump (Firmware-assisted dump) on the IBM POWER
    architecture.

0.8.2
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  * Fix missing error reason (string representation  of errno) in the
    exception output.
  * Include the position of the input stream in the exception output.
  * Improve error message in Debuglink::openCompressed().
  * Fix invalid call of mkstemp() in Debuglink::openCompressed()
  * Do not use showmount (it is apparently no longer needed).
  * Improve the algorithm of finding kernel modules and programs
    needed to mount the dump directory.
  * Pass the correct "sysrq=" argument to the kdump kernel.
  * Add support for RSA keys when saving over SSH.
  * Do not re-generate kdump initrd on boot. Instead, hook into the
    normal mkinitrd run.
  * Adjust init-script actions to match LSB better.
  * Check remote host SSH key if available.
  * Allow dumping if the primary kernel was booted in EFI mode.
  * Correctly recognize ELF and compressed ELF kernel files.
  * Create KDUMP_SAVEDIR if non-existent.
  * Include makedumpfile-R.pl in the kdump initrd.
  * Pass bash options between mkdumprd and mkinitrd to simplify debugging.
  * Ignore unknown NMIs in the kdump kernel.
  * Do not try to recurse non-directories when deleting old dumps.
  * Support for LZO-compressed dumps.
  * If KDUMP_CPUS is greater than 1, save multiple partial files in parallel
    using "makedumpfile --split".
  * Save extracted kernel log messages together with the dump file.
  * Add a "none" format to skip capturing the dump.

0.8.1
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  * Fix invalid syntax in CMakeLists.txt.
  * Fix manpage, the command is called read_ikconfig and not print_ikconfig.
  * Remove the documentation about the non-working network configuration in Xen
  * since that has been fixed meanwhile.
  * Make it possible to exit the shell spawned in the initrd with 'exit'
    to boot in the kdump system for debugging.

0.8.0
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  * Call asciidoc a2x with -L to fix manual page generation problems with
    asciidoc 8.3.x.

0.7.4
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  * Call 'mkinitrd' with the -B (don't update bootloader) option in mkdumprd(8).

0.7.3
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  * Document kdump problems on Xen.
  * Don't display the full mkinitrd output.
  * Warn about zero-size vmcore.
  * Default to the auto-detected kernel when mkdumprd is called without
    arguments instead of defaulting to the running kernel.
  * Parse VMCOREINFO_XEN when present with 'read_vmcoreinfo'.
  * Pass the kernel release of the crashed kernel via command line in case of
    Xen.
  * Improve error handling when no crash kernel release is available when saving
    the dump.

0.7.2
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  * Don't use the FQDN but only the hostname to avoid DNS lookups and errors on
    wrongly configured systems.
  * Fix empty KDUMP_SAVEDIR line when replacing the symbolic link with the
    absolute path.
  * Don't set sysctl kernel.unknown_nmi_panic=1 by default.
  * Mention kernel.panic_on_unrecovered_nmi in the kdump(7) manpage.

0.7.1
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  * Document 256M limit on ppc64 for large machines in kdump(7).

0.7.0
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  * Add read_ikconfig command.
  * Add find_kernel command in kdumptool, replacing the find code in the
    init script.
  * Implement KDUMP_VERBOSE = 16 to debug kdump find_kernel.
  * Make boot.kdump dependent on boot.localnet to have a correct hostname.
  * Fix stripping of the crashkernel command line again.
  * Create the release tarballs with Mercurial.
  * Don't include test cases in the release tarball. They are very incomplete
    and contain too huge test data.
  * Honor TMPDIR and set that to disk space instead of the ramdisk when saving
    the dump in the initrd.

0.6.7
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  * Strip the whole crashkernel option when loading the kdump kernel, not only
    parts of them, also when the extended crashkernel syntax has been used.

0.6.6
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  * Fix wrong path when modifying the /etc/sysconfig/kdump file when creating
    the kdump initrd.
  * Prepend a space before MAKEDUMPFILE_OPTIONS so that there's always a space
    between command and the first argument.
  * Fix finding of the kernel image (/boot/vmlinuz) with rootdir.

0.6.5
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  * Fix copying of debug info when --root is specified and the debug file
    resides in GLOBALDEBUGDIR/EXECDIR/DEBUGFILE.

0.6.4
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  * change default location for KDUMP_SAVEDIR to "/var/crash"
  * actually check <version>-kdump before <version>-<flavour> when looking for
    a suitable kdump kernel
  * boot.kdump: Use the full kernel release (obtained with
    /sbin/get_kernel_version) to build the initrd name also when symlinks are
    used.
  * Assume a default terminal size of 80x25 (for printing the horizontal line)
  * Check the exit status of kdumptool
  * Implement support for resolving symbolic links inside a root directory
	(--root=...) when saving the dump.
  * Don't print a (red) info message that email failed if both KDUMP_SMTP_SERVER
    and KDUMP_NOTIFICATION_TO are empty.
  * If KDUMP_SAVEDIR points to a local file, resolve symlinks when creating the
    initrd because in theory the file system that contains parts of the symlinks
    is not mounted in initrd.
  * Fix KDUMP_NETCONFIG=auto by calling mkinitrd with right parameters.
  * Create core dumps in the initrd when kdumptool crashes.
  * Fix std::logic_error in Email::send() that caused kdumptool to terminate
    unexpectedly.
  * Set the hostname of the SMTP session based on the --fqdn parameter.
  * Don't report a failure in the email when there is no one.

0.6.3
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  * make the kdump init script a boot script ("boot.kdump")
  * fix init script comments
  * add meta information to manpages

0.6.2
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 * correct init script: remove remote FS dependency and also add "Should-Stop"

0.6.1
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 * add kdump(7) manual page

0.6.0
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 * add vmcore(5) manual page
 * implement email support

0.5.5
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 * make dependency to libssh2 optional

0.5.4
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 * always create empty ${tmp_mnt}/etc/fstab.kdump
 * change execution state to 'boot'
 * use UUID for fstab.kdump
 * open a shell if something fails and KDUMP_CONTINUE_ON_ERROR is true
 * don't include JFS to initrd
 * don't add -s '' parameter to mkinitrd call if the boot splash script
   is not available
 * handle more programs in $KDUMP_REQUIRED_PROGRAMS correct
 * move original /etc/fstab back

0.5.3
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 * don't exit with error code when the dump directory does not yet exist in the
   'delete_dumps' command
 * fix syntax error in init/boot-kdump.sh

0.5.2
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 * copy required programs (KDUMP_REQUIRED_PROGRAMS) in initrd
 * mount dump partition and boot partition in initrd
 * don't exit with error code when the dump directory does not yet exist in the
   'delete_dumps' command

0.5.1
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 * add 'print_target' sub command
 * implement SSH public/private key authentication

0.5.0
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 * rewrite for usage in initrd