Release History

This file only includes changes that are noticeable to the end-user (i.e. no refactoring, code improvements, etc).

2.2

2.2.8 - 11/30/2021 (latest)

• misc bug fixes
• add support for --width
• add more operators for --break such as AND, OR
• add a man page (heaptrace(1))

2.2.7 - 10/24/2021

• major improvements to logging format
• add partial suport for $NO_COLOR
• add new --break syntax
• add support for memory leak detection again

2.2.6 - 10/17/2021

• fix /proc/pid/maps parsing code on Ubuntu
• improve menu format

2.2.5 - 10/17/2021

• add support for -p/--attach/--pid to attach to an already-running process.
• fix fork()/vfork()/clone() behavior
• improve colors/logging
• add help menu

2.2.4 - 10/15/2021

• major stability improvement: now tracking heap func calls from libc, e.g. if malloc() were called by strdup()
• add support for function signature detection in libc binaries
• add --gdb-path/-G option to specify the path to gdb
• minimized number of memory leaks

2.2.3 - 10/14/2021

• fix reallocarray symbol being mapped to realloc (thank you @mysterywave)
• fix global oid not updating & sometimes causing a breakpoint to be triggered when oid=0 (thank you @mysterywave)

2.2.2 - 10/14/2021

• add support for --follow-fork/--follow/-F to make heaptrace follow children on fork()/vfork()/clone()
• detect calls to exec() and warn user that a new process is replacing the traced one

2.2.1 - 10/13/2021

• show heap function caller if --verbose is enabled
• add support for --break segfault and --break main
• warn when reallocarray overflows
• warn when the target segfaults or abort()s
• minor stability improvements and perf improvements

2.2.0 - 10/12/2021

• add a function identification feature that looks for heap function signatures in stripped binaries
• fix SIGSEGV when reallocarray was passed a pointer to an untracked chunk

2.1

2.1.1 - 10/09/2021

• major stability and performance updates

2.1.0 - 10/08/2021

• add support for calloc, realloc, and reallocarray

2.0

Rewritten to use ptrace

1.0

Original release written in a single C file. It was LD_PRELOAD-based.