Note that this is essentially two releases; the 4.0-5.0 release
was an interim snapshot used for Red Hat errata releases.

It should also be noted another release should be forthcoming to
address the data structure changes introduced by the x86/x86_64
merger work done in the 2.6.25 kernel.

4.0-5.1:

- Update "ps -l" to use task_struct.sched_info.last_arrival value
  on 2.6.23 and later kernels that don't have a task_struct.last_ran
  member.  Without the patch, the option would fail with the error
  message: "ps: neither task_struct.last_run nor task_struct.timestamp
  exist in this kernel".  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

- Fix for potential initialization-time failure when running against
  2.4-era x86 netdump dumpfiles if the ebp and esp contents in the
  ELF header's NT_PRSTATUS register dump do not contain a vestige of
  the panic task's kernel stack address.  Without the patch, there may
  be one or more warning messages complaining about tasks not being in
  the PID hash, followed by a fatal error message: "crash: invalid
  kernel virtual address: <bad-address>  type: 32-bit KVADDR", where
  the <bad-address> can be any bogus kernel virtual address.
  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

- Fix to make the unused do_radix_tree() function work as advertised.
  [EMAIL PROTECTED])

- Added zlib-devel to the crash-devel package-dependency Requires line
  in the crash.spec file.  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

4.0-5.0:

- Tentatively scheduled as the baseline version for RHEL4.7 and RHEL5.2
  crash utility errata releases; also built in Fedora Rawhide:

    4.0-5.0.0 - RHEL4.7 errata version
    4.0-5.0.2 - RHEL5.2 errata version
    4.0-5.0.3 - Fedora Rawhide (devel branch)

- Fix for a potential segmentation violation during crash session
  initialization if a task's kernel stack has been completely overrun,
  corrupting its thread_info structure at the bottom of the stack.
  This could occur running against kernels from 2.6.8 through 2.6.18.
  With the patch, the suspect task will be reported during the task
  initialization sequence.  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

- Fix for the "bt" command when run on xen x86 dom0 dumpfiles, which
  may potentially show empty backtraces for one or more active tasks.
 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

- Initial support for OpenVZ kernels.  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])


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