[Capstone-users] Capstone 3.0-RC1 released!

[Nguyen A. Q. <aq...@gm...>]

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate 1 of version 3.0 of
Capstone disassembly framework!

Find the link to source code at
http://capstone-engine.org/Version-3.0-RC1.html

Or get it from the tag name “3.0-rc1” in our Github repo at
https://github.com/aquynh/capstone

Please test and report all the issues you can find.


NOTE: The old bindings from version 2.x are incompatible with this version,
so must be updated.
For Java/Ocaml/Python bindings, see respective README files under bindings/
directory in
the source for how to do fresh-install.


Summary of important changes of version 3.0-rc1:

- New architectures: Sparc, SystemZ & XCore.

- Important bugfixes for Arm, Arm64, Mips, PowerPC & X86.

- X86 engine now can decode 3DNow instructions.

- X86 engine is mature & handles all the malware tricks that we are aware
of. If you have any code that Capstone wrongly processes, please report.

- Mips engine added supports for new hardware modes: Mips3, Mips32R6 &
MipsGP64.

- Support for Microsoft Visual Studio (so Windows native compilation using
MSVC is possible).

- Support CMake compilation.

- Cross-compile for Android.

- Much faster, while consuming less memory for all architectures.

- API version was bumped to 3.0.

- Renamed API cs_disasm_ex to cs_disasm (cs_disasm_ex is marked obsolete to
be removed in future versions)

- Support SKIPDATA mode, so Capstone can jump over unknown data and keep
going from the next legitimate instruction.

- Python binding supports Python3.

- Support Ocaml binding.

Thanks.
Capstone Engine Team