[Valgrind-developers] Valgrind-3.12.0 BETA is available for testing

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

A beta tarball for 3.12.0 is now available at
http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.12.0.BETA1.tar.bz2
(md5sum = cb91572285f0072861a23ed8531b1829)

Please give it a try in configurations that are important for you, and
report any problems you have, either on this mailing list, or
(preferably) via our bug tracker at
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=valgrind

I will watch commits to the trunk and merge to 3.12.0, any that
appear to be suitable candidates.  If you know of any specific
commits which you think should be merged, please mail the list to
say so.

If nothing critical emerges, a final release will happen on
Thursday 20 October.

Details of what's new in 3.12.0 will be in the NEWS file,
although that is somewhat incomplete at present.  Some of the
highlights are:

- Memcheck: replacement/wrapping of malloc/new related functions in
    all libraries, not just libc.
- Memcheck: meta-mempool support for describing custom allocators
- Valgrind is able to read compressed debuginfo sections
- Modest JIT-cost improvements: 10%-15% for Memcheck on x86_64
- Support for IBM POWER ISA 3.0 instructions
- Support for ARMv8 crypto instructions
- Preliminary support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
- Linux: support for recent glibc, gcc and kernel (a la Fedora 25)
- Many bug fixes

J