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v6.17
9d7b4d1a · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.17 (2025-09-28) ============================================== * Improvements * Implemented decoding of file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls. * Implemented decoding of SO_INQ socket option. * Updated lists of BPF_*, BTN_*, BTRFS_*, DEVCONF_*, ETHTOOL_*, FALLOC_*, KEXEC_*, KEY_*, KVM_*, NETCONFA_*, NFT_*, PR_*, SCM_*, V4L2_*, and XDP_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.17. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Gyorgy Sarvari Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.16
ba20408d · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.16 (2025-08-05) ============================================== * Improvements * Added -N/--arg-names option for printing syscall argument names. * Implemented setting of system call information using PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO ptrace API introduced in Linux 6.16. * Implemented decoding of SO_RCVPRIORITY and SO_PASSRIGHTS socket options. * Implemented decoding of RTA_NH_ID and RTA_FLOWLABEL netlink attributes. * Updated decoding of statx syscall. * Updated lists of BR_*, CRYPTOCFGA_*, FUTEX2_*, IORING_*, IPSET_*, KVM_*, MDB_*, NETDEV_*, PR_*, RXRPC_*, SW_*, THERMAL_*, and V4L2_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.16. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Barnabás Pőcze * Dmitry V. Levin * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Gustavo Costa * Jan Macku Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.15
918fce0c · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.15 (2025-05-26) ============================================== * Improvements * Implemented decoding of open_tree_attr syscall. * Implemented decoding of AF_TIPC socket addresses and socket options. * Updated decoding of statmount syscall. * Updated lists of AUDIT_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, COUNTER_*, FAN_*, FRA_*, IFLA_*, IORING_*, KVM_*, LANDLOCK_*, PKEY_*, RTPROT_*, TCP_*, and V4L2_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.15. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Sahil Siddiq Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.14
68b13a1b · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.14 (2025-03-25) ============================================== * Improvements * Added -e namespace=new option for printing the namespaces entered by the tracee. * Implemented decoding of FRA_FLOWLABEL and FRA_FLOWLABEL_MASK netlink attributes of RTM_{NEW,DEL,GET}RULE NETLINK_ROUTE messages. * Implemented decoding of RTM_{NEW,DEL}MULTICAST and RTM_{NEW,DEL}ANYCAST NETLINK_ROUTE messages. * Updated decoding of statx syscall. * Updated lists of AT_*, AUDIT_*, ETHTOOL_*, FAN_*, IORING_*, IPPROTO_*, KEY_*, NL80211_*, RWF_*, and SECBIT_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.14. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Masatake YAMATO Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.13
dd0afd1c · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.13 (2025-01-23) ============================================== * Improvements * Implemented decoding of getxattrat, setxattrat, listxattrat, and removexattrat syscalls. * Updated decoding of struct io_uring_clone_buffers, struct io_uring_napi, and struct perf_event_attr. * Updated decoding of crypto_user_alg netlink attributes of NETLINK_CRYPTO. * Implemented decoding of IFLA_MCTP_PHYS_BINDING netlink attribute. * Updated lists of AT_*, BPF_*, FAN_*, IORING_*, MADV_*, NT_*, and SCM_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.13. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Andrea Bolognani * Dmitry V. Levin * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.12
30736a7f · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.12 (2024-11-18) ============================================== * Improvements * Implemented decoding of EPIOCGPARAMS and EPIOCSPARAMS ioctl commands. * Implemented decoding of NS_GET_MNTNS_ID, NS_GET_PID_FROM_PIDNS, NS_GET_TGID_FROM_PIDNS, NS_GET_PID_IN_PIDNS, NS_GET_TGID_IN_PIDNS, NS_MNT_GET_INFO, NS_MNT_GET_NEXT, and NS_MNT_GET_PREV ioctl commands. * Implemented decoding of FRA_DSCP netlink attribute. * Implemented decoding of IORING_REGISTER_CLOCK and IORING_REGISTER_CLONE_BUFFERS opcodes of io_uring_register syscall. * Updated decoding of struct landlock_ruleset_attr. * Updated lists of AUDIT_*, ETHTOOL_*, F_*, IORING_*, LSM_*, MAP_*, MSG_*, NT_*, SCHED_*, SCM_*, SO_*, and V4L2_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.12. * Bug fixes * Fix the syscall name printed by strace when PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO is in use and a syscall is restarted by a just attached tracee using restart_syscall mechanism. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Florian Weimer * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Khem Raj Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.11
8399328f · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.11 (2024-09-15) ============================================== * Improvements * Implemented decoding of uretprobe syscall. * Implemented decoding of WDIOC_GETSUPPORT and WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl commands. * Enhanced decoding of unknown ioctl commands in non-abbreviated mode by printing the contents of the ioctl argument buffer in hexadecimal format. * Updated decoding of listmount, statmount, and statx syscalls. * Updated lists of ETHTOOL_*, IORING_*, IPPROTO_*, RWF_*, STATX_*, and V4L2_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.11. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Edjunior Machado * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Masatake YAMATO * Sahil Siddiq * tstabrawa Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.10
922d2d57 · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.10 (2024-07-21) ============================================== * Improvements * Implemented --decode-fds=eventfd option to retrieve eventfd object details associated with eventfd file descriptors. * Implemented decoding of NETLINK_GENERIC nlctrl protocol. * Implemented decoding of F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl. * Implemented decoding of mseal syscall. * Updated decoding of statx and prctl syscalls. * Updated decoding of BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT_OPEN bpf command. * Updated lists of BPF_*, IORING_*, KEXEC_*, KEY_*, LANDLOCK_*, PR_*, STATX_*, TCP_*, TEE_*, V4L2_*, and *_MAGIC constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.10. * Bug fixes * Worked around a bug introduced in Linux 6.5 that affected system call tampering on riscv64. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Brandon Maier * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Jan Macku * Masatake YAMATO * Sahil Siddiq * Sergei Trofimovich Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.9
990e1478 · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.9 (2024-05-14) ============================================= * Improvements * Implemented --always-show-pid option. * The --user|-u option has learned to recognize numeric UID:GID pair, allowing e.g. statically-built strace to be used without invoking nss plugins. * Implemented decoding of IORING_REGISTER_SYNC_CANCEL, IORING_REGISTER_FILE_ALLOC_RANGE, IORING_REGISTER_PBUF_STATUS, IORING_REGISTER_NAPI, and IORING_UNREGISTER_NAPI opcodes of io_uring_register syscall. * Implemented decoding of BPF_TOKEN_CREATE bpf syscall command. * Updated decoding of io_uring_register and pidfd_send_signal syscalls. * Updated lists of BPF_*, CAN_*, IORING_*, KEY_*, LSM_*, MPOL_*, NT_*, RWF_*, PIDFD_*, PTP_*, TCP_*, and *_MAGIC constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.9. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Christian Ehrhardt * Dmitry V. Levin * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Michael Vogt * Yao Zi * Zygmunt Krynicki Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.8
a592648a · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.8 (2024-03-20) ============================================= * Improvements * Renamed --stack-traces to --stack-trace for consistency. Old option is retained for backwards compatibility. * Implemented --stack-trace-frame-limit=N option for configuring the limit of the number of printed backtrace frames. * Implemented decoding of statmount, listmount, lsm_get_self_attr, lsm_set_self_attr, and lsm_list_modules syscalls. * Implemented decoding of setsockopt(TCP_AO_ADD_KEY). * Updated decoding of landlock_create_ruleset and landlock_add_rule syscalls. * Updated decoding of SMC_DIAG_DMBINFO netlink attribute. * Updated decoding of UBI_IOCATT ioctl command. * Enhanced decoding of mount attributes of fsmount and mount_setattr syscalls. * Updated lists of BPF_*, KEXEC_*, KVM_*, PERF_*, SOL_*, STATX_*, UFFD_*, and V4L2_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.8. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Ahelenia Ziemiańska * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Ivan Avdeev * Ivan Trofimov * Masatake YAMATO Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.7
091ed4fd · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.7 (2024-01-29) ============================================= * Improvements * Implemented -kk/--stack-traces=source option for libdw-based stack tracing. * Implemented decoding of futex_wake, futex_wait, and sys_futex_requeue syscalls. * Updated lists of BPF_*, BTRFS_*, IORING_*, KVM_*, LANDLOCK_*, PR_*, and TCP_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.7. * Bug fixes * Fix strace -r during the first second after booting to show correct relative timestamps. * Fix strace -f entering deadlock on exit if there are tracee processes spawned using vfork semantics. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Jan Macku * Jean-Baptiste Skutnik * Josh Triplett * Masatake YAMATO * Sahil Siddiq * Sergei Trofimovich * donghaobo Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.6
bf598d9b · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.6 (2023-10-31) ============================================= * Improvements * Implemented --kill-on-exit option that instructs the tracer to set PTRACE_O_EXITKILL option to all tracee processes and not to detach them on cleanup so they will not be left running after the tracer exit. * Implemented automatic activation of --kill-on-exit option when --seccomp-bpf is enabled and -p/--attach option is not used. * Implemented decoding of map_shadow_stack syscall. * Implemented decoding of FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE_EXCL fsconfig command. * Implemented decoding of IFLA_BRPORT_BACKUP_NHID netlink attribute. * Implemented decoding of SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SET_FLAGS ioctl. * Implemented decoding of UFFDIO_CONTINUE, UFFDIO_POISON, and UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT ioctls. * Updated lists of ARCH_*, BPF_*, DEVCONF_*, IORING_*, KEXEC_*, MAP_*, NT_*, PTRACE_*, QFMT_*, SEGV_*, UFFD_*, V4L2_*, and XDP_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.6. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.5
b2715192 · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.5 (2023-09-01) ============================================= * Improvements * Implemented decoding of cachestat and fchmodat2 syscalls. * Implemented decoding of SO_PASSPIDFD and SO_PEERPIDFD socket options. * Implemented decoding of SCM_PIDFD control messages. * Implemented decoding of BPF_ENABLE_STATS, BPF_ITER_CREATE, BPF_LINK_DETACH, and BPF_PROG_BIND_MAP bpf syscall commands. * Updated decoding of BPF_OBJ_PIN and BPF_OBJ_GET bpf syscall commands. * Updated lists of AT_*, BPF_*, IORING_*, KVM_*, MOVE_MOUNT_*, NFT_*, NT_*, PR_*, and V4L2_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.5. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Alexander Kanavin * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Sven Schnelle Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.4
999d3a5d · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.4 (2023-06-26) ============================================= * Improvements * Implemented decoding of IFLA_BRPORT_NEIGH_VLAN_SUPPRESS netlink attribute. * Implemented decoding of IP_PROTOCOL type control messages and socket option. * Updated lists of BPF_*, IP_*, KVM_*, MDBA_*, PACKET_*, PR_*, PTRACE_*, UFFD_*, and V4L2_PIX_FMT_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.4. * Bug fixes * Turn --seccomp-bpf off when --syscall-limit option is specified. * Fixed --trace-fds filtering support of syscalls taking file descriptor arguments that do not normally have a path associated with them. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Alexander Gordeev * Dmitry V. Levin * Donald Hunter * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Marek Vasut Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.3
a6122df0 · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.3 (2023-05-08) ============================================= * Improvements * Implemented --trace-fds=set option for filtering only the syscalls that operate on the specified set of file descriptors. * Implemented --decode-fds=signalfd option for decoding of signal masks associated with signalfd file descriptors. * Implemented --syscall-limit option to automatically detach tracees after capturing the specified number of syscalls. * Implemented --argv0 option to set argv[0] of the command being executed. * Implemented decoding of PR_GET_MDWE and PR_SET_MDWE operations of prctl syscall. * Implemented decoding of IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option. * Implemented decoding of IFLA_BRPORT_MCAST_N_GROUPS, IFLA_BRPORT_MCAST_MAX_GROUPS, IFLA_GSO_IPV4_MAX_SIZE, IFLA_GRO_IPV4_MAX_SIZE, and TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG netlink attributes. * Updated lists of F_SEAL_*, IFLA_*, IORING_*, MFD_*, NFT_*, TCA_*, and V4L2_PIX_FMT_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.3. * Bug fixes * Fixed build on hppa with uapi headers from Linux >= 6.2. * Fixed --status filtering when -c option is in use. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Elvira Khabirova * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Jakub Wilk * John Reiser * Kossi Glokpor * Marty Leisner * Masatake YAMATO * Matoro Mahri * Sahil Siddiq * Sven Schnelle * adrien-n * leedagee Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.2
8c0beb8f · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.2 (2023-02-26) ============================================= * Improvements * Implemented collision resolution for overlapping ioctl commands from tty and snd subsystems. * Implemented decoding of IFLA_BRPORT_MAB and IFLA_DEVLINK_PORT netlink attributes. * Updated lists of ALG_*, BPF_*, IFLA_*, KEY_*, KVM_*, LANDLOCK_*, MEMBARRIER_*, NFT_*, NTF_*, and V4L2_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.2. * Bug fixes * Fixed build on alpha architecture. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Elvira Khabirova * Fabrice Le Fessant * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Helge Deller * Jan Macku * Masatake YAMATO * Sven Schnelle Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.1
4402d774 · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.1 (2022-12-12) ============================================= * Improvements * Enhanced decoding of terminal ioctl commands. * Updated decoding of statx syscall. * Updated lists of ABS_*, BPF_*, BTRFS_*, COUNTER_*, ETH_P_*, IFLA_*, KVM_*, MADV_*, NLMSGERR_*, PERF_*, STATX_*, and TLS_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.1. * Bug fixes * Fixed injection tests on ia64. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Yaakov Selkowitz Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v6.0
fb940a04 · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 6.0 (2022-10-17) ============================================= * Improvements * Enhanced decoding of PTP_* ioctl commands. * Updated decoding of setns syscall. * Updated lists of BPF_*, BTRFS_*, FAN_*, ETH_P_*, KVM_*, NDTPA_*, NT_*, PERF_*, and TLS_INFO_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.0. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Marvin Schmidt * Roland Illig Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v5.19
9b00bd51 · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 5.19 (2022-08-12) ============================================== * Changes in behaviour * The "(deleted)" marker for unlinked paths of file descriptors is now printed outside angle brackets; the matching of unlinked paths of file descriptors no longer includes the " (deleted)" part into consideration. * Improvements * Implemented printing of Unix socket sun_path field's SELinux context. * Implemented decoding of SO_TXREHASH socket option. * Implemented decoding of IFLA_TSO_MAX_SIZE, IFLA_TSO_MAX_SEGS, NDA_FDB_EXT_ATTRS, NDA_FLAGS_EXT, NDA_NDM_FLAGS_MASK, and NDA_NDM_STATE_MASK netlink attributes. * Improved decoding of INET_DIAG_LOCALS, INET_DIAG_MD5SIG, INET_DIAG_PEERS, INET_DIAG_PROTOCOL, INET_DIAG_REQ_PROTOCOL, INET_DIAG_SHUTDOWN, INET_DIAG_SK_BPF_STORAGES, INET_DIAG_SOCKOPT, and INET_DIAG_ULP_INFO NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG netlink attributes. * Enhanced decoding of arch_prctl and prctl syscalls. * Enhanced siginfo_t decoding. * Updated decoding of struct rtnl_link_stats64. * Updated lists of DEVCONF_*, FAN_MARK_*, GPIO_V2_LINE_FLAG_*, IORING_*, KEXEC_*, LANDLOCK_*, NET_IPV4_CONF_*, NLM_F_*, NT_*, PR_*, SECCOMP_*, UFFD_FEATURE_*, V4L2_CID_*, and V4L2_PIX_FMT_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.19. * Bug fixes Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Alexey Gladkov * Dmitry V. Levin * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Joubin Jabbari * Lenka Špačková * Renaud Métrich * Sergei Trofimovich * Václav Kadlčík Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.
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v5.18
d57929ae · ·Noteworthy changes in strace 5.18 (2022-06-18) ============================================== * Improvements * Added an interface of raising des Strausses awareness. * Added --tips option to print strace tips, tricks, and tweaks at the end of the tracing session. * Enhanced decoding of bpf and io_uring_register syscalls. * Implemented decoding of COUNTER_*, RTC_PARAM_GET, and RTC_PARAM_SET ioctl commands. * Updated lists of BPF_*, BR_*, BTRFS_*, IFA_*, IFLA_*, IORING_*, KEY_*, KVM_*, MADV_*, and UFFD_* constants. * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 5.18. * Bug fixes * Fixed printing of the updated value of union bpf_attr.next_id on the exiting of bpf(BPF_*_GET_NEXT_ID) calls. Contributors ============ This release was made possible by the contributions of many people. The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed changes or bug reports. These include: * Andreas Schwab * Bruce Ashfield * Christian Brauner * Dmitry V. Levin * Elvira Khabirova * Eugene Syromyatnikov * Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy * Greg Kroah-Hartman * Max Filippov * Mickaël Salaün * Pegasust * SuHsueyu Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.