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A dtrace bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.



El-errata: ELBA-2021-9618 Oracle Linux 8 dtrace bug fix update


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2021-9618

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2021-9618.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
dtrace-2.0.0-1.9.el8.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-devel-2.0.0-1.9.el8.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-testsuite-2.0.0-1.9.el8.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-2.0.0-1.9.el8.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.0.0-1.9]
- Add support for strtok(). (Eugene Loh)
- Implement TLS (thread-local storage) variables.
- Add support for basename(), dirname(). (Eugene Loh)
- Generic hash table improvements and consistent use of htabs. (Nick Alcock)
- CTF improvements in view of better kernel support. (Nick Alcock)
- Add support for ftruncate(). (Eugene Loh)
- Add support for rand(). (Eugene Loh)
- Fix string constant handling for strings longer than strsize.
- Optimization of substr(), strjoin(), and storing strings in the trace buffer.
- Various string handling fixes and improvements. (Eugene Loh, Kris Van Hees)
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- Various testsuite fixes and improvements. [Orabug: 33651682]
- Various code improvements. [Orabug: 33651682]

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