- First public release of Shiva
- Finished Shiva Prelinker v2.0 (That's the "/usr/bin/shiva-ld" tool)
- See ticket: advanced-microcode-patching#1
- Performance enhancements of up to 3000% tested
- Performance enhancement grows proportionate to size of .text section of executable
- --disable-cfg-gen flag which disables the new control-flow meta-data from shiva-ld
- Updated the Shiva user manual: documentation/shiva_user_manual.pdf to v0.12 Alpha.
- Extended Shiva's shiva_analyze.c code to support consumption of .shiva.xref and .shiva.branch sections.
- Several incidental build changes the patches in modules/aarch64_patches
- Added this CHANGELOG to the project.
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