Comment 3 for bug 271956

From upstream sourceforge site at
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=178938&release_id=624021

I knew it was possible/likely this wouldn't be in the next release, I
had needed to do the packaging ASAP, so I figured I'd contribute back
and save the ubuntu devs some work.

File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 1.2.9
Notes:

Changes:
makedumpfile 1.2.9 (Support ia64 discontigmem kernels of linux-2.6.20+)
  - Support ia64 discontigmem kernels of linux-2.6.20+.
  - Support x86_64 linux-2.6.27 kernel.
  - Add "--vtop" option for debugging.
  - Add the debugging message for ia64 pgtable.
  - Add makedumpfile's spec file.
  - Get information from vmcoreinfo of /proc/vmcore even if -x/-i option.
  - Add free() for error handling.
  - Fix NOT_FOUND value of SIZE(nodemask_t).
  - Use the terminal sizes of 80 for the IMPLEMENTATION file. (Bernhard Walle)
  - Use static allocation instead of malloc().
  - Add get_num_dumpable() function.
  - Remove the unused pointer.
  - Remove the unused code.
  - Make the ELF methods simple.
  - Merge the same code in write_elf_pages().
  - Add "void" to some arguments.
  - Separate the dependency code to machine and linux version.
  - Cleanup vaddr_to_paddr() function.

makedumpfile 1.2.8 (Add the IMPLEMENTATION file)
  - Add the IMPLEMENTATION file for the kdump-compressed format

makedumpfile 1.2.7 (Add linux-2.6.26 and xen-3.1.2 support)
  - Add xen-3.1.2 support (Akio Takebe)
  - handle x86_64 xen code/data relocation (Itsuro ODA)
  - Add linux-2.6.26 support.
  - Add the progress bar for creating dump bitmap (Bernhard Walle)
  - Shrink the time for creating dump bitmap.
  - Fix vmcoreinfo generation on 32bit hosts for 64bit kernels (Bernhard Walle)
  - Fix compile warning (Bernhard Walle)
  - Fix illegal buffer access (Itsuro ODA)
  - Improve error handing when SIZE(nodemask_t) is undefined (Bernhard Walle)
  - Remove trailing whitespace (Bernhard Walle)
  - Remove unnecessary description in manpage.
  - Cleanup machine dependent method.
  - Cleanup open_dump_file() method.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
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> As we are in Feature Freeze, could you post a list of changes (upstream
> changelog) between the current Ubuntu version and this one. If it is a
> mainly bug freeze release, please subscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors to
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>
> If this new upstream version introduces new features and/or ABI/API
> changes, please see:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#Exceptions for
> Universe/Multiverse
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