radareorg/radare2 4.5.0

4.5.0 Codename: Organized Chaos

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Release Notes

Version: 4.5.0
Previous: 4.4.0
Commits: 426
Contributors: 58

Highlights

Analysis

• Initial API for base type kinds (enum, struct, union)
• Rename PowerPC to PPC
• Improve RISC-V analysis for compressed instructions
• Add endbr64 as a function prelude for x86-64 binaries
• Improve BP vars/args detection
• Detect register args used only by callee
• Match args name/types from function definition
• Improve itanium RTTI parsing and vtable search
• Refactor Variables out of SDB
• Implement basic concept of signature bestmatch

asm

• Add support for WebAssembly SIMD extension
• Boolify r_asm_is_valid and r_asm_set_syntax API
• x86_64/x86_32: Implement assembler endbr32 and endbr64 instructions
• x86_64: Support mov r64, 0xffffffffffffffff
• x86_64: Fix mov r32, -imm32 encoding
• Move inferior GNU Hexagon plugin to extras

bin

• Apple Symbols file
  • Improve Xcode symbols parser
• COFF
  • Improve relocation support on COFF file format
• DEX
  • Fix several crashes when loading corrupted files
  • Performance improvements in DEX parsing
• DWARF
  • DWARF 4 and 5 line parsing additions
  • Several improvements/fixes in parsing
• ELF
  • Use Dynamic segment entries instead of sections to find relocations
  • Add support for BA2 ELF
  • Add support for relocation entries for AARCH64 and PPC
  • Print a warning when the entrypoint cannot be found and it is automatically set somewhere else
  • Make glibc heap commands faster by resolving main_arena symbol
  • Add support for glibc heap tcache pre/post glibc version 2.30
  • Add missing reloc definitions for C-SKY, RISCV and AARCH64
• kernelcache
  • Fix rebasing offset
• Mach-O
  • Fix symbol names truncation issue when dealing with overly long strings
  • Support arbitrary length identifiers
  • Fix relocations on ARM Thumb
  • Support Mach-O threaded binding for arm64e
  • Rebase and strip pointers on Mach-O arm64e
  • Fix parsing of objc class data pointer
  • Do not automatically set the entrypoint of libraries
• PDB
  • Add support for multiple PDB symbol servers
  • Add function for reading PDB from buffer
  • Fix command injection on PDB download (CVE-2020-15121, advisory GHSA-r552-vp94-9358)
• Pyc
  • Move to radare2 core repository and improve/clean it
• PE
  • Fix crash when resolving corrupted ordinal exports
  • Speedup parsing PE exports

build

• Various fixes for Haiku
• Add support for binr/blob and fix android build in meson
• Add --without-dylink configure flag to disable libdl features
• Add Debian 8 Jessie to GitHub CI
• CentOS tree sitter fix using gnu99 when available
• Fix the static build by dynamically resolving libutil symbols
• Add release Github workflow to create all the release artifacts
• Introduce --without-r2r configure option to disable compilation of r2r

cons

• Add VT sequences input support for Windows

crypto

• Remove hardcoded supported encoders names (e.g. base64, base91, punycode)

debug

• Fixes for windows debugger
  • Improve exception logging
  • Fix inconsistencies in killing/restarting a process
  • Fix detaching without killing debuggee
  • Expose exception reason for di

io

• Add new fd:// (handle:// on windows) plugin
• Support self:// plugin for Solaris and Haiku OS
• Fix regression while loading large files (>2GB) on 32bit systems

lang

• Fix C/Cpipe when non standard library paths are used
• Implement RLang.spp for templated scripting
• Move #!v out of core (it's now available via r2pm)
• Fix usage of #!python, #rust, and #cpipe
• Do not include C/cpipe RLangPlugins on windows

magic

• Add Android boot image signature

socket

• Fix socket connect with SSL

util

• Move RAnnotatedCode API from r2ghidra to r_util so it can be reused
• Refactor r_big for gmp and SSL
• Remove unused RConstr API
• Remove unused RRangeTiny API
• Add support for weakref RStrBuf and add r_strbuf_setptr API
• Add r_vector_fini and r_pvector_new_with_len API and add bound checks on all RVector APIs
• Add support for n# in pfc
• Add generic reference counting implementation

rabin2

• Fix go detection in non-elf binaries

radare2

• Config variables
  • Renamed variables
    • asm.jmpsub -> asm.sub.jmp
    • asm.var.submin -> asm.sub.varmin
    • asm.tailsub -> asm.sub.tail
    • asm.section.sub -> asm.sub.section
    • asm.var.subonly -> asm.sub.varonly
    • asm.regsub -> asm.sub.reg
    • asm.relsub -> asm.sub.rel
    • anal.in=raw -> anal.in=range
    • asm.bytespace -> asm.bytes.space
    • scr.ansicon -> scr.vtmode (only on Windows build)
  • New variables/options
    • anal.vars.stackname: (true/false) Name variables based on their offset on the stack
    • asm.bytes.right: (true/false) Display the bytes at the right of the disassembly
    • bin.str.enc=ascii is a new option
• Commands
  • Add axv and afvx and afv= commands to visualize var R/W accesses
  • Add afvxj to print JSON output of afvx
  • Add dmia command to list all info of a target lib and accept more print modes in dmi
  • Fix invalid json output for drtj command
  • Add key to highlight and go-to highlighted text in graph mode
  • Add JSON print to /E command with /Ej
  • Add zb command to find n closest matching graph zignature
• Initial refactoring to generate commands help automatically and support argv-style command handlers (e cfg.newshell=true)
• Add API to print decompiled code
• Optimize aao objc analysis
• Display file associated to the current file in the visual title
• Fix runaway scrolling in Visual mode after mashing down movement key on Windows Terminal
• Add F9 continue key to ESIL

rafind2

• Implement rafind2 -F to find the contents of the file

rasign2

• Add dumping of FLIRT signatures to rasign2
• Move main code to r_main

r2pm

• Initial support for git tags in r2pm

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