Fedora 16 Update: systemtap-1.7-1.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-1237
2012-02-04 04:38:49
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Name        : systemtap
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.7
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://sourceware.org/systemtap/
Summary     : Programmable system-wide instrumentation system
Description :
SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux.
Developers can write instrumentation scripts to collect data on
the operation of the system.  The base systemtap package contains/requires
the components needed to locally develop and execute systemtap scripts.

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Update Information:

**Update to upstream release 1.7.**

The new group and privilege level "stapsys" has been added, debuginfo can now be automatically downloaded, quiet runtime error handling was added, parser error handling has been improved, device driver initialization functions can now be probed, user and kernel dwarf backtraces are now enabled on ppc, s390x and arm, new stap-server customizing options have been added.  Associative arrays are much faster.  Many diagnostic messages have been improved.  Preliminary user-space probing with inode-uprobes, without utrace.  Faster (compiled) *printf formatting.

<http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2012-q1/msg00097.html>
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb  1 2012 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat.com> - 1.7-1
- Upstream release.
- Reorganize subpackages, new -client and -devel for subset installations.
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> - 1.6-4
- Fixes for gcc-4.7 based on upstream commits e14c86 and 47caa9.
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Dec  6 2011 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 1.6-2
- Rebuild for new libpng
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update systemtap' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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