systemtap release 1.8

The systemtap team announces release 1.8.

  user-space probing support with unmodified linus kernel 3.5-rc,
  kernel netfilter-hook probing, ipv6 support in tapsets and
  compile-server, concurrent compilations in compile-server, improved
  dwarf4 support (.debug_types),  <at> var() construct for accessing
  variables in global scope, stap resource-limit options, tested on
  kernels 3.5-rc through 2.6.9

= Where to get it

  http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ - our project page
  http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ftp/releases/systemtap-1.8.tar.gz
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=615
  git tag release-1.8 (commit 48fa6b5e)

  There have been over 300 commits since the last release.
  There have been over 50 bugs/features fixed since the last release.

= How to build it

  See the README and NEWS files at
  http://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git;a=tree
  Further information at http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/

= Systemtap frontend (stap) changes

- When invoked by systemtap, the kbuild $PATH environment is sanitized
  (prefixed with /usr/bin:/bin:) in an attempt to exclude compilers
  other than the one the kernel was presumed built with.