+1.7
+==
+Dodji Seketeli:
+ Internal pretty repr of union cannot be flat representation
+ Fix anonymous union constructed under the wrong context
+ Propagate private type diff category through refs/qualified type diffs
+ Add test for the fix for PR24410
+ Fix "Add test for the fix for PR24410"
+ Bug 24430 - Fold away const for array types
+ Bug 24431 - ELF reader can't interpret ksymtab with Kernel 4.19+
+ Bug 24431 - ELF reader fails to determine __ksymtab format
+ Enable building with AddressSanitizer activated
+ Fix a memory leak in real_path
+ Delay canonicalization for array and qualified types
+ abg-tools-utils.cc: Plug a leak in find_file_under_dir
+ Add --enable-{asan,ubsan} configure options
+ Canonicalize types non tied to any DWARF DIE
+ Don't try to de-duplicate all anonymous struct DIEs
+ Use canonical types hash maps for type IDs in abixml writer
+ Handle several member anonymous types of the same kind
+ Better handle several anonymous types of the same kind
+ Fix logic of get_binary_load_address
+ Handle Linux kernel binaries with no __ksymtab section
+ Bug 24560 - Assertion failure on an abixml with an anonymous type
+ Bug 24552 - abidiff fails comparing a corpus against a corpus group
+ Take anonymous scopes into account when comparing decls
+ [dwarf-reader] const-ify Dwarf_Die* use in many places
+ [dwarf-reader] Re-use function types inside a given TU
+ [dwarf-reader] Better use of linkage name for fn decl de-duplication
+ [dwarf-reader] Optimize speed of compare_as_decl_dies
+ [dwarf-reader] Fix indentation in compare_dies_string_attribute_value
+ Fully account for anonymous-ness of scopes when comparing decl names
+ Bug 24731 - Wrongly reporting union members order change
+ Make abidiff --harmless show harmless changes in unions
+ [dwarf-reader] Constify the first parameter of maybe_canonicalize_type
+ [dwarf-reader] Make sure to canonicalize anonymous types
+ Implement a poor-man's RTTI for performance
+ [xml-writter] Avoid using RTTI when dynamically hashing types
+ [xml-writter] Speedup function_type::get_cached_name
+ [xml-writer] Remove a useless kludge
+ Misc indent cleanup
+ Implement fast comparison of Linux Kernel types when applicable
+ [ir] Fix indentation and add comments
+ Add timing to the verbose logs of abidw
+ Bug 24787 - Filter out enum changes into compatible integer types
+ Serialize canonical types to avoid testing if types have been emitted
+ Detect the presence of R_AARCH64_{ABS64, PREL32} macros
+ Bug 25007 - Don't use section-relative symbol values on ET_REL binaries
+ Remove the elf_symbol::get_value property
+ Guard testing v4.19+ AARCH64 kernel module loading for EL6 support
+ Fix reading of relocation sections when endianness mismatches
+ [has_type_change] Better detect type size changes
+ Better propagation of suppressed-ness to function types
+ Support the "name_not_regexp" property in the [suppress_type] section
+ PR25042 - Support string form DW_FORM_strx{1,4} from DWARF 5
+ Fix a typo in a comment of abg-dwar-reader.cc
+ Fix thinkos in DW_FORM_strx detection in configure.ac
+ PR25058 - Support decl DIEs referring to symbols using DW_AT_ranges
+ PR25058 - Better support fn DIEs referring to symbols using DW_AT_ranges
+ [abg-comparison.cc] Fix comments typo
+ Support symbol_name_not_regexp in [suppress_{function, variable}]
+ Bug 25095 - Apply symbol white lists to ELF symbols
+ Bug 25128 - Leaf diff reporter shouldn't compare decl-only classes
+ Bug 25128 - Handle decl-only classes that differ only in size
+ Small style fix in abg-default-reporter.cc
+ Bug 24690 - Support comparing non-reachable types of a binary
+ Misc typo fixes
+ Bug 25409 - Fix reading layout-offset-in-bits attribute of data-member
+ suppression: Better handle soname/filename properties evaluation
+ abixml-reader: Support SONAME related properties on file suppression
+ tools-utils: Drop redefinition of fopen when BAD_FTS is defined
+ gen-changelog.py: Update the script for python3
+
+Giuliano Procida:
+ Remove redundant mention of libtool in COMPILING documentation.
+ Fix typo in COMPILING.
+ Don't ignore options when diffing translation units (.bi files).
+ Sort kernel module object files before processing them.
+ Fix stray comma in leaf-changes-only mode.
+
+Jessica Yu:
+ Support pre and post v4.19 ksymtabs for Linux kernel modules
+
+Mark Wielaard:
+ Fix an undefined behaviour in has_var_type_cv_qual_change
+ Don't try to read a build_id as string in find_alt_debug_info_link.
+
+Matthias Maennich:
+ dwarf-reader: fix undefined behaviour in get_binary_load_address
+ Add .clang-format approximation
+ abg-writer: Simplify 'annotate' propagation
+ Add deprecation facilities
+ abg-writer: Refactor write_translation_unit API
+ abg-writer: Refactor write_corpus API
+ abg-writer: Refactor write_corpus_group API
+ write_context: allow mutating the ostream used
+ abidw: Consolidate setting options
+ Make write_architecture and write_corpus_path flags in the write_context
+ abidw: add option to omit the compilation directory
+ abidw: add option to only emit file names (--short-locs)
+ abg-writer: drop deprecated API
+ .gitignore: Add libabigail-?.* *.orig files
+ .clang-format: Add more options for match existing coding style
+ abg-reporter.h: add missing includes / using declarations
+ Drop requirement to compile with GNU extensions
+ Update tests/.gitignore to ignore runtesttoolsutils
+ Add compatibility layer for C++11 mode
+ abg-tools-utils: add missing header include guards
+ Ensure a consistent C++ standard use
+ abg-dwarf-reader: detect kernel modules without exports as such
+ dwarf-reader: read_corpus_from_elf: unconditionally load elf properties
+ kmidiff: fix help message
+ dwarf-reader: refactor try_reading_first_ksymtab_entry_using{pre,}_v4_19_format
+ dwarf-reader: add support for symbol namespaces in ksymtab entries
+ abg-dwarf-reader: resolve relocation sections by index
+ dwarf-reader: relax restriction about relocation sections in try_reading_first_ksymtab_entry
+ Add (undocumented) support for version suffixes
+ abidiff/kmidiff: do not default-suppress added symbols
+ abg-reader: handle empty corpus nodes in xml representation
+ corpus: is_empty: consider actual translation unit contents
+ writer: completely skip over empty corpora
+ KMI Whitelists: Add functionality to make whitelists additive
+ KMI Whitelists: Drop old whitelist extraction methods
+ clang-format: Better approximation for binary operators and assignments
+ dwarf-reader: handle symtab.section_header.sh_entsize == 0
+ dwarf-reader: handle binaries with missing symtab
+ Fix / add include guards
+ abg-fwd: drop duplicate forward declaration for corpus_sptr
+ Testing: add Catch Unit test framework
+ Fix some parameter name inconsistencies
+ abg-comparison: prefer .empty() over implicit bool conversion of .size()
+ abg-dwarf-reader: zero initialize local Dwarf_Addr values
+ abg-workers: Rework the worker queue to improve concurrent behaviour
+ abg-fwd.h: fix mismatched tags for ir_node_visitor
+ abilint: fix return types bool -> int
+ abg-reader: clarify boolean use of assignment
+ diff-utils: point: fix postfix decrement/increment operator
+ add missing virtual destructors
+ viz-dot: remove unused members from dot
+ suppressions: drop unused parameter from type_is_suppressed
+ ir: drop unused data members from {environment,qualified_name}_setter
+ distinct_diff: avoid expression with side effects within typeid
+ dwarf-reader: fix recursion in expr_result::operator&
+ Update .gitignore files to ignore typical dev side products
+ dwarf-reader: Fix comments for try_reading_first_ksymtab_entry_using_{pre_,}v4_19_format
+ dwarf-reader: templatize read_int_from_array_of_bytes
+ Bug 24431 Read 32bit values when testing for the v4.19 symbol table format
+ Bug 24431 Treat __ksymtab as int32_t for v4.19+ kernels
+
+
1.6
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Dodji Seketeli: