strace 6.18 released

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at strace.io
Mon Dec 8 16:03:27 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 6.18 is tagged and uploaded.

$ git tag -v v6.18 2> /dev/null | sed -n '/^$/,$p'

Noteworthy changes in strace 6.18 (2025-12-07)
==============================================

* Improvements
  * Added -e kvm=vcpu+ option for kvm_run struct decoding.
  * Implemented decoding of FS_IOC_GETFSUUID, FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH, and
    FS_IOC_GETLBMD_CAP ioctl commands.
  * Implemented decoding of BPF_PROG_STREAM_READ_BY_FD bpf command.
  * Updated decoding of BPF_BTF_LOAD, BPF_MAP_CREATE, BPF_PROG_ATTACH,
    BPF_PROG_DETACH, BPF_PROG_LOAD, BPF_PROG_QUERY, and BPF_*_GET_*_ID bpf
    commands.
  * Updated decoding of bpf_map_info and bpf_prog_info structures.
  * Updated lists of AUDIT_*, BR_*, FF_*, IFLA_*, INPUT_PROP_*, IORING_*,
    KEXEC_FILE_*, KEY_*, KVM_CAP_*, NL80211_CMD_*, RWF_*, and TEE_* constants.

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:

* Dmitry V. Levin
* Florian Weimer
* Frédéric Bérat
* Masatake YAMATO

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


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ldv


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