KLEE 2.0, 19 March 2019 ======================== Incorporating changes from 22 July 2017 to 19 March 2019 Maintainers during this time span: @AndreaMattavelli, @ccadar, @delcypher, @MartinNowack Documentation at http://klee.github.io/releases/docs/v2.0 == Major features == - Added support for KLEE array optimizations from ISSTA'17 paper "Accelerating Array Constraints in Symbolic Execution" (@AndreaMattavelli, @MartinNowack, @ccadar) - Added support for LibC++ (--libcxx flag) (@corrodedHash, @futile, @MartinNowack) - Added support for CVC4 and Yices2 via metaSMT (@hoangmle) - Added better path merging functionality via klee_open_merge and klee_close_merge (@corrodedHash, @futile) - Fixed support for vector instructions (@MartinNowack) - Support for recent LLVM versions (see "LLVM support" below) - New categorized --help menu, with LLVM options hidden by default (see "Options, scripts and intrinsics changed or removed" below) == LLVM support == - Added support for LLVM 3.7 - 7.0 (@jirislaby) - Added support for LLVM 8.0 (@MartinNowack) - KLEE 2.0 will be the last release with support for LLVM 3.4 to 3.7 - Removed support for LLVM <3.4 (@MartinNowack) == Options, scripts and intrinsics changed or removed == - Renamed several options (@ccadar) * --environ to --env-file * --no-output to --write-no-tests * --red-zone-space to --redzone-size * --run-in to --run-in-dir * --seed-out to --seed-file * --seed-out-dir to --seed-dir * --stop-after-n-tests to --max-tests * --use-cache to --use-branch-cache * --use-construct-hash to --use-construct-hash-stp * --warn-all-externals to --warn-all-external-symbols - Replaced --no-externals and --allow-external-sym-calls with --external-calls (@ccadar) - Added --libcxx option to enable LibC++ support (see "Major features" above) - Added option --max-stack-frames to limit the number of stack frames used (@MartinNowack) - Added --klee-call-optimisation option, which can be set to false to disable some optimizations that interact incorrectly with the checks injected by KLEE. See https://github.com/klee/klee/pull/1059 for more details (@MartinNowack) - Added support for disabling --batch-instructions and --batch-time by setting them to zero (@ccadar) - Removed option --disable-opt (@ccadar) - Removed klee-gcc and klee-clang (@251, @MartinNowack) - Removed support for klee_make_symbolic with two arguments (@ccadar) - Allow NULL as name to klee_int, to create "unnamed" object (@251) - New time API used in options (@251) - Improved the output of ktest-tool and added an --extract option (@251) - Categorized options in --help, improved help messages, and hid LLVM options by default (@ccadar) == Other changes == - Updated build system to detect whether STP, Z3, metaSMT are available (@delcypher) - Fixed test case counter: previously the number of test cases generated by KLEE was always incremented, even if a symbolic solution was not found (@andreamattavelli) - Added checks for div/mod by zero and overshifts in constant expressions (@ccadar) - Fixed a bug causing KLEE to generate files with no permissions bits set (@ccadar) - Added clean_doxygen target and a global clean_all target to the build system (@delcypher) - Fixed initialization of distance to uncovered instructions when KLEE relies on default searchers (@andreamattavelli) - Fixed assert in BFSSearcher that does not hold as part of interleaved searcher (@jbuening) - Fixed huge allocation size constant (@davidtr1037) - Added Codecov support (@andreamattavelli, @MartinNowack) - Store cex cache stats and report them in klee-stats (@helicopter88) - Fixed incorrectly incremented stats for dumped states (@251) - Fixed bug where KLEE would not output test cases when --exit-on-error is enabled (@buszk) - Added support for blockaddress and indirectbr instructions (@251) - Implemented klee_prefer_cex() and klee_abort() for replay mode (@Lysxia) - Fixed handling of errno when external functions are invoked (@MartinNowack) - Fixed utimes() behavior for symbolic files when the second argument is NULL (@yxliang01) - Improved handling of constant array in Z3 (@kren1) - Improved the handling of external calls with symbolic data (@kren1) - Abort execution if --only-output-states-covering-new is enabled but its dependency --output-istats is not (@ccadar) - Improved ConstantExpr performance (@kren1) - Improved linking and optimizations order (@MartinNowack) - Enabled TCMalloc by default (@kren1) - Disabled unit testing in default build (@AndreaMattavelli) - Added resolve time to klee-stats --print-all (@251) - Improved the startup sequence enabling the POSIX runtime (@MartinNowack) - Added ASan and UBSan flags to lit (@251) - Added support for handling multiple SIGSEGVs in external calls (@251) - Added checks for correct usage of the POSIX mode (@ccadar) - Added support for klee-replay on OSX (@251) - Added lowering pass for atomic instructions (@erzett, @futile) - Improved handling of metadata (@MartinNowack) - Improved efficiency of div/mod and shift checks by skipping unnecessary checks (@MartinNowack) - Added support for memalign (@corrodedHash) - Enable C++14 support (@MartinNowack) - Fixed issue with aliases that point to other aliases (@jbuening) - Added workaround for the LLVM bug PR39177 (@jbuening) - Updated dependency build system for KLEE (@MartinNowack) - Fixed the Docker deployment for KLEE (@MartinNowack) - Added support for compiling KLEE with MSan and UBSan's integer sanitizer (@MartinNowack) - Fixed representation of ReadExpr's into equivalent arrays (@MartinNowack) - Added support for debug information provided by newer LLVM versions (@MartinNowack) - Added many KLEE-related publications (@251) - Smaller refactorings, fixes and improvements, test cases, maintenance, comments, web version, website, etc. (@andronat, @251, @andreamattavelli, @ccadar, @corrodedHash, @danielschemmel, @delcypher, @itbot08, @jasondavies, @jbuening, @jirislaby, @kren1, @Lysxia, @MartinNowack, @Mic92, @odeits-vidder, @SolalPirelli, @szeyiuchau, @Tipwheal, @yannicnoller) KLEE 1.4.0, 21 July 2017 ======================== (Incorporating changes from 4 November 2016 up to and including 21 July 2017) Documentation at http://klee.github.io/releases/docs/v1.4.0/ This will be the last version supporting LLVM 2.9 and the autoconf build system. - New CMake build system (@delcypher, @jirislaby) - Added support for vectorized instructions (@delcypher) - Fixed and documents BFS searcher behaviour (@MartinNowack, @ccadar) - Renames .pc files to .kquery files (@holycrap872) - Removed option --randomize-fork (@ccadar) - Changed preferred permissions from 0622 to the more standard 0644 in the POSIX model (@ccadar) - New target name, "make systemtests", for running the system tests. This replaces "make test". Running the unit tests is still accomplished via "make unittests". - Better support for MacOS (@andreamattavelli, @delcypher) - Enabled support for ASan builds of KLEE (@delcypher) - Support long long values in --stop-after-n-instructions for LLVM > 2.9 (@andreamattavelli) - Teach KLEE to respect the requested memory alignment of globals and stack variables when possible (@delcypher) - Added new option --warnings-only-to-file which causes warnings to be written to warnings.txt only (@ccadar) - metaSMT improvements (@hoangmle) - KLEE-web improvements (@andronat, @helicopter88) - Fixed bug in the implementation of NotExpr (@delcypher) - Fixed a bug leading to data loss when writing into files (@ccadar, @gladtbx) - Some improvements and refactoring to the Expr library (@delcypher) - Added missing constant folding opportunity when handling constant arrays (@andreamattavelli, @delcypher) - Teach klee::getDirectCallTarget() to resolve weak aliases (@delcypher) - Fixed handling of internal forks (@gladtbx) - Improved replay using libkleeRuntest (@delcypher) - Added -debug-assignment-validating-solver feature to check the correctness of generated assignments (@delcypher) - Added -debug-z3-dump-queries, -debug-z3-validate-models and -debug-z3-verbosity options useful for debugging the interaction with Z3 (@delcypher) - Added geq/lt-llvm- configs in lit (@jirislaby) - Work on supporting newer LLVM versions (@jirislaby) - Fixed bug where stats would not be updated on early exit (@delcypher) - Reworked the external dispatching mechanism (@delcypher) - Added support for creating release documentation (@delcypher) - Smaller refactorings, fixes and improvements, test cases, maintenance, comments, website, etc. (@adrianherrera, @akshaynagpal, @AlexxNica, @andreamattavelli, @bananaappletw, @bigelephant29, @bunseokbot, @ccadar, @delcypher, @emlai, @hoangmle, @jirislaby, @kren1, @levex, @Manouchehri, @MartinNowack, @mechtaev, @Mic92, @omeranson, @rtrembecky, @thestr4ng3r, @tomek-kuchta) KLEE 1.3.0, 30 November 2016 ============================ (Incorporating changes from 1 April up to and including 3 November 2016) * Improved determinism of KLEE, an essential feature for experiments involving KLEE (@MartinNowack) * KLEE-web has been improved and refactored, and now available at http://klee.doc.ic.ac.uk/ (@giacomoguerci, @helicopter88, @andronat, @ccadar, based on work by @ains, @ben-chin, @ilovepjs, @JamesDavidCarr, Kaho Sato, Conrad Watt, @ccadar) * Renamed --replay-out to --replay-ktest and --replay-out-dir to replay-ktest-dir (@delcypher) * Split creation of symbolic files and stdin in two distinct options, documented at http://klee.github.io/docs/options/#symbolic-environment (@andreamattavelli) * Support for logging queries before invoking the solver via --log-partial-queries-early, useful for debugging solver crashes (@MartinNowack) * Added --stats-write-after-instructions and --istats-write-after-instructions to update each statistic after n steps (@MartinNowack) * Added --compress-log and --debug-compress-instructions to gzip-compress logs (@MartinNowack) * Added --exit-on-error-type option for stopping execution when certain error types are encountered (@jirislaby) * Updated and improved metaSMT support and added TravisCI targets (@hoangmle) * Added option --debug-crosscheck-core-solver to allow crosschecking of solvers (@delcypher) * Explicitly made division total in STP (@ccadar) * Extended support for assembler raising (@MartinNowack) * Disabled --solver-optimize-divides, as the optimization is currently buggy (@ccadar) * Improved --debug-print-instructions options with more logging options (@andreamattavelli) * Improved stub for times() not to trigger a NULL dereference (@ccadar) * Allow relocation of installed KLEE tree (@ShayDamir) * Fixed bug in independent solver (@delcypher) * Fixed alignement of varargs (@MartinNowack) * Fixed variable shifting behavior with different sizes and generation of STP shift operations with variable amounts (@MartinNowack) * Fixed handling of non-sized globals (@jirislaby) * Fixed klee_get_obj_size() crash on 64-bit (@hutoTUM) * Fixed bug in Kleaver's parser (@andreamattavelli) * Refactorings, small fixes and improvements, test cases, maintenance and website: (@andreamattavelli, @ccadar, @delcypher, @domainexpert, @giacomoguerci, @hoangmle, @helicopter88, @jirislaby, @Justme0, @kren1, @MartinNowack, @mchalupa) KLEE 1.2.0, 31 March 2016 ========================= * Added native support for Z3 (@delcypher) * Made it possible to build KLEE without using STP and only MetaSMT (@delcypher) * Added support for tcmalloc, which allows KLEE to better track memory consumption (@MartinNowack) * Added support for lowering the ``llvm.objectsize`` intrinsic (@delcypher) * Added soname for Runtest dynamic library (@MartinNowack) * Added support to load libraries from command line (@omeranson) * Added command line flag --silent-klee-assume to suppress errors due to infeasible assumptions (Valentin Wüstholz, @wuestholz) * Changed code to print out arrays deterministically (@MartinNowack) * Improved klee-clang script (@msoos) * Added code to dump queries and assignments (@MartinNowack) * Code cleanup and refactorings (@delcypher, @MartinNowack) * Improvements to code infrastructure (@delcypher, @domainexpert, @MartinNowack, @mdimjasevic, @msoos) * Fixed several memory leaks (@delcypher) * Fixed a bug with how non-power of 2 values were written to memory (@kren1) * Fixed valueIsOnlyCalled() used by MD2U (@yotann) * Fixed SELinux signatures (@lszekeres) * Fixed incorrect position of Not in Expr::Kind (@delcypher) * Fixed wrong std::vector usage after reserve() call (@pollnossa) * Improved documentation (@bananaappletw, @ccadar, @delcypher, @mdimjasevic, @Teemperor, @ward, @wuestholz) KLEE 1.1.0, 13 November 2015 ============================ * Made LLVM 3.4 and STP 2.1.0 the recommended versions for installing KLEE (Cristian Cadar, @ccadar; Dan Liew, @delcypher; Martin Nowack, @MartinNowack; Mate Soos, @msoos) * Added instructions for using the Docker images (Dan Liew, @delcypher) * Added NEWS file to keep track of changes for each release (Cristian Cadar, @ccadar) * Added coverage information for the current KLEE codebase (Timotej Kapus, @kren1) * Added -entry-point=FOO option, where FOO is the name of the function to use as the entry point for execution (Riccardo Schirone, @ret2libc) * Switched STP to v2.1.0 (instead of the old r940) in TravisCI (Martin Nowack, @MartinNowack) * Improved Dockerfiles to use specific dependency versions (Dan Liew, @delcypher) * Bug fix: Fixed signed division by constant 1/-1 (Martin Nowack, @MartinNowack, reported by Timotej Kapus, @kren1) * Bug fix: Generate SRrem expressions correctly (Martin Nowack, @MartinNowack, reported by Timotej Kapus, @kren1) * Bug fix: Allowed the generation of initial values for queries with empty constraint set (Martin Nowack, @MartinNowack) * Bug fix: Fixed assertion failure in getDirectCallTarget (Sean Bartell, @yotann) * Bug fix/test improvement: Use a temporary directory instead of /tmp in futimesat test (Andrew Chi, @andrewchi) * Various fixes and improvements to the website (Eric Rizzi, @holycrap872; Martin Nowack, @MartinNowack; Bheesham Persaud, @bheesham; Gu Zhengxiong, @NoviceLive; Cristian Cadar, @ccadar) KLEE 1.0.0, 10 August 2015 ========================== # Recent changes (from 2015) * Several performance improvements to the counterexample cache, including changing some default behaviour (Eric Rizzi, @holycrap872) * Computing coverage of KLEE code in Travis CI (Timotej Kapus, @kren1) * Added an option --readable-posix-inputs which is used to turn on/off the CEX preferences added in the POSIX model (Eric Rizzi, @holycrap872; Cristian Cadar, @ccadar) * Lots of improvements to the build process (Dan Liew, @delcypher) * Added klee-clang as alternative to klee-gcc (Martin Nowack, @MartinNowack) * Added Dockerfile for building a KLEE Docker image (Dan Liew, @delcypher) * Added a new option, --rewrite-equalities, which makes it possible to disable the optimisation that rewrites existing constraints when an equality with a constant is added (Cristian Cadar, @ccadar) * Cleaner, more efficient timestamps (Emil Rakadjiev, @erakadjiev) * Improved integer overflow detection (Luca Dariz, @luckyluke)