blog/data/2014-01-14-chrpath-0.16.txt

   1 Title: New chrpath release 0.16
   2 Tags: english, debian, chrpath
   3 Date: 2014-01-14 11:00
   4
   5 <p><a href="http://www.coverity.com/">Coverity</a> is a nice tool to
   6 find problems in C, C++ and Java code using static source code
   7 analysis.  It can detect a lot of different problems, and is very
   8 useful to find memory and locking bugs in the error handling part of
   9 the source.  The company behind it provide
  10 <a href="https://scan.coverity.com/">check of free software projects as
  11 a community service</a>, and many hundred free software projects are
  12 already checked.  A few days ago I decided to have a closer look at
  13 the Coverity system, and discovered that the
  14 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/">gnash</a> and
  15 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/">ipmitool</a>
  16 projects I am involved with was already registered.  But these are
  17 fairly big, and I would also like to have a small and easy project to
  18 check, and decided to <a href="http://scan.coverity.com/projects/1179">request
  19 checking of the chrpath project</a>.  It was
  20 added to the checker and discovered seven potential defects.  Six of
  21 these were real, mostly resource "leak" when the program detected an
  22 error.  Nothing serious, as the resources would be released a fraction
  23 of a second later when the program exited because of the error, but it
  24 is nice to do it right in case the source of the program some time in
  25 the future end up in a library.  Having fixed all defects and added
  26 <a href="https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/chrpath-devel">a
  27 mailing list for the chrpath developers</a>, I decided it was time to
  28 publish a new release.  These are the release notes:</p>
  29
  30 <p>New in 0.16 released 2014-01-14:</p>
  31
  32 <ul>
  33
  34   <li>Fixed all minor bugs discovered by Coverity.</li>
  35   <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project.</li>
  36   <li>Mention new project mailing list in the documentation.</li>
  37
  38 </ul>
  39
  40 <p>You can
  41 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the
  42 new version 0.16 from alioth</a>.  Please let us know via the Alioth
  43 project if something is wrong with the new release.  The test suite
  44 did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
  45 include a test suite check.</p>