hugsy/gef 2018.10

2018.10 - Silurian Seeker

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GEF - v2018.10 - Silurian Seeker

Contributors

This new release is the result of almost 5 months of hard work. So I'll just start by thanking those who made the projects alive: GEF reaches 29 contributors and a special thanks goes to:

The first timer(s):

• vakzz
• Kyle-Kyle
• dlrobertson
• hazedic
• clarkb_cs
• SakiiR
• Tiecoon
• d4em0n

The regular(s):

• daniellimws
• yrp604
• cclauss

And the legendary

• Grazfather

If you like gef and meet one of those person, feel free to buy them a beer 🍺

New features

• Support for RISC-V architecture (@dlrobertson )
• Brand new skin, designed by our own @Grazfather
• New command print-format
• New convenience variables / functions ($_pie , $_heap) by @wbowling
• Better AARCH64 support
• All command outputs are now buffered, so less IO, more perf
• "Repeatable" commands are in
• PyEnv support (@hazedic)
• Ditched Travis-CI for Circle-CI
• Glibc Tcache bins support
• Colorized hexdump byte (pwntools-like)

Changelog

With about 1100 lines changed, the

• Bugfix in x86 EFLAGS parsing
• Better and more unit tests
• More caching (on key functions, settings, etc.)
• Fixed the doc
• (ARM) Auto. adjust GEF mode from cspr flag
• Bugfix in capstone integration
• Fixed minor issues in format-string-helper
• Fixed IDA integration, thx @cclauss
• And more minor bugfixes, and speed improvement

The future

GEF will progressively stops supporting GDB+Python2, since Python2 is due to die soon anyway.