• Systemtap 5.6 released

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Saturday, September 19, 2026 06:40:09
    Version 5.6 of the Systemtap tracing tool has been released.

    BPF LSM hooks and XDP packet-processing probes for the --bpf
    runtime, BTF-based kernel.tracepoint probes, statement execution
    tracing, a new @enumname() operator, richer runtime error context,
    dyninst hardware watchpoints, modern systemd service templates, and
    broad Linux 7.2 runtime/tapset compatibility work. Multithreaded
    speedups throughout.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1095220/
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