2025.01 - Muted Actor

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Changelog: 2025.01 - Muted Actor

Highlights of Muted Actor

• Bug Fixes: Resolved issues with scoped function calls, remote memory mappings, unicode encoding in non-ASCII locales, color swaps in heap/stack, excessive string reads, and typos across the codebase.
• New Features: Added support for multiple filter flags in the vmmap command, a simplified clear screen command, and extended testing capabilities in CI/CD.
• Improvements: Moved to a Python 3.10 baseline, enhanced the arch command documentation, and updated the way optional arguments are parsed.
• RISC-V Support: Many refinements in handling core dumps and improvements for RISC-V instructions.
• Documentation update: Removed obsolete documentation now covered by gef-extras.

Contributors

Author	Number of commits
crazy hugsy	10
ValekoZ	4
Grazfather	2
arty-hlr	1
FunnyBiu	1
Gordon Messmer	1
Jörg Thalheim	1
Michael Krasnitski	1
Zion Leonahenahe Basque	1

New Contributors

• @fjh1997 made their first contribution in Fix python unicode encoding problem when install gef in non-ascii locale #1127
• @arty-hlr made their first contribution in fixed color swap between heap/stack #1136
• @ThePuzzlemaker made their first contribution in Fix bge/bgeu for RISC-V #1163

Closed Issues

• 11 issues closed ( 1157 • 1154 • 1152 • 1147 • 1145 • 1144 • 1142 • 1140 • 1138 • 1132 • 1129 )

Closed Pull Requests

• 19 PRs closed ( 1164 • 1163 • 1162 • 1160 • 1159 • 1156 • 1155 • 1153 • 1148 • 1146 • 1141 • 1139 • 1136 • 1133 • 1127 • 1126 • 1124 • 1122 • 1121 )

Commit details

22 commits since 2024.06

Commit log

• 2024-06-05 0ca807b • crazy hugsy • Reload settings if gef-extras scripts were loaded (Reload settings if gef-extras scripts were loaded #1118)
• 2024-06-09 c450a2d • ValekoZ • Update arch command documentation ([cmd] Update arch command documentation #1121)
• 2024-06-24 6ddd780 • ValekoZ • [internal] Add a way to append values to optional arguments in parse_arguments decorator ([internal] Add a way to append values to optional arguments in parse_arguments decorator #1122)
• 2024-07-21 d8c7723 • Zion Leonahenahe Basque • Fix an incorrect scoped function call (introduced in add layout mapping API for external plugins #1093) (Fix an incorrect scoped function call (introduced in #1093) #1124)
• 2024-07-27 d116cfb • crazy hugsy • [License] 2023 -> 2024 ([License] 2023 -> 2024 #1126)
• 2024-07-27 22d3ab0 • crazy hugsy • [CI] Add new runner: Ubuntu 2404 ([CI] Add new runner: Ubuntu 2404  #1115)
• 2024-07-27 8907935 • Gordon Messmer • Fix remote use of gef.memory.maps (Fix remote use of gef.memory.maps #1109)
• 2024-08-05 674c74d • FunnyBiu • Fix python unicode encoding problem when installing gef in non-ascii locale (Fix python unicode encoding problem when install gef in non-ascii locale #1127)
• 2024-09-16 f298b7f • arty-hlr • [UI] Fixed color swap between heap/stack in vmmap legend (fixed color swap between heap/stack #1136)
• 2024-09-25 115137c • crazy hugsy • Move GEF to a Python 3.10 baseline (Move GEF to a Python 3.10 baseline #1133)
• 2024-09-29 d8a3043 • ValekoZ • [memory] Fix read_cstring trying to read too far ([memory] Fix read_cstring trying to read too far #1112)
• 2024-10-01 f9f8045 • Grazfather • Remove ksymaddr docs (now in gef-extras) (Remove ksymaddr docs (now in gef-extras) #1141)
• 2024-10-24 ba70548 • ValekoZ • [cmd] Add support for flags specifying filters type in vmmap, and allow multiple filters ([cmd] Add support for flags specifying filters type in vmmap, and allow multiple filters #1120)
• 2024-10-29 5376d78 • Michael Krasnitski • Use shutil when looking for executables on the host system (Use shutil when looking for executables on the host system #1146)
• 2024-11-10 4dccd78 • crazy hugsy • Simplified clear_screen command (Simplified clear screen command #1148)
• 2024-11-10 0f21eea • crazy hugsy • Python 3.10 improvements (Python 3.10 improvements #1139)
• 2024-11-11 3bdba58 • crazy hugsy • Prevent duplicate panes in context.layout (Prevent duplicate panes in context.layout #1153)
• 2024-11-11 9f2737a • crazy hugsy • Use maint info sec for coredumps (Use maint info sec for coredumps #1155)
• 2024-11-13 29884e3 • crazy hugsy • [CI] Add extended testing capability ([CI] Add extended testing capability #1156)
• 2024-12-08 283a7f6 • Grazfather • reset_architecture: Force arch to lower case (reset_architecture: Force arch to lower case #1159)
• 2024-12-27 5225358 • Jörg Thalheim • [Docs] Typos fixes (fix typos treewide #1160)
• 2025-01-09 538c7c6 • Wren [Undefined] • Fix bge/bgeu for RISC-V (Fix bge/bgeu for RISC-V #1163)
• 2025-01-12 ed10244 • crazy hugsy • Fixes for release 2025.01 (Fixes for release 2025.01 #1164)

File diff

.github/workflows/coverage.yml        |   16 +-
 .github/workflows/extended-tests.yml  |   23 +
 .github/workflows/run-tests.yml       |   69 --
 .github/workflows/tests.yml           |   92 +++
 .gitignore                            |    1 +
 .pylintrc                             |    2 +-
 .python-version                       |    1 +
 LICENSE                               |    2 +-
 README.md                             |    4 +-
 docs/api/gef.md                       |    4 +-
 docs/commands/arch.md                 |    2 +-
 docs/commands/config.md               |    2 +-
 docs/commands/dereference.md          |    2 +-
 docs/commands/gef-remote.md           |    2 +-
 docs/commands/gef.md                  |    2 +-
 docs/commands/heap-analysis-helper.md |    2 +-
 docs/commands/ksymaddr.md             |   24 -
 docs/commands/memory.md               |    2 +-
 docs/commands/vmmap.md                |   20 +-
 docs/compat.md                        |    8 +-
 docs/faq.md                           |   16 +-
 docs/install.md                       |    7 +-
 gef.py                                | 1157 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
 mkdocs.yml                            |    2 +-
 ruff.toml                             |    2 +
 scripts/gef.sh                        |    4 +-
 scripts/new-release.py                |    2 +-
 tests/api/gef_memory.py               |   41 ++
 tests/base.py                         |   12 +-
 tests/commands/context.py             |   23 +-
 tests/commands/gef_remote.py          |    2 +-
 tests/commands/theme.py               |    2 +-
 tests/commands/vmmap.py               |   28 +-
 tests/extended/archlinux.sh           |   13 +
 tests/extended/debian.sh              |   11 +
 tests/extended/fedora.sh              |    9 +
 tests/extended/run_pytest.sh          |   10 +
 tests/utils.py                        |    4 +-
 38 files changed, 968 insertions(+), 657 deletions(-)

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