strace 6.16 released

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at strace.io
Tue Aug 5 17:43:15 UTC 2025


Starting with version 4.13, strace follows the schedule of linux kernel
and new versions of strace are released along with new versions of linux
kernel, so strace 6.16 is tagged and uploaded.

$ git tag -v v6.16 2> /dev/null | sed -n '/^$/,$p'

Noteworthy changes in strace 6.16 (2025-08-05)
==============================================

* Improvements
  * Added -N/--arg-names option for printing syscall argument names.
  * Implemented setting of system call information using
    PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO ptrace API introduced in Linux 6.16.
  * Implemented decoding of SO_RCVPRIORITY and SO_PASSRIGHTS socket options.
  * Implemented decoding of RTA_NH_ID and RTA_FLOWLABEL netlink attributes.
  * Updated decoding of statx syscall.
  * Updated lists of BR_*, CRYPTOCFGA_*, FUTEX2_*, IORING_*, IPSET_*, KVM_*,
    MDB_*, NETDEV_*, PR_*, RXRPC_*, SW_*, THERMAL_*, and V4L2_*
    constants.
  * Updated lists of ioctl commands from Linux 6.16.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports.  These include:

* Barnabás Pőcze
* Dmitry V. Levin
* Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy
* Gustavo Costa
* Jan Macku

Please refer to the CREDITS file for the full list of strace contributors.


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