v1.7.2

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What's Changed

Deprecations and Removals

• PyStack no longer falls back to running the interpreter's executable with --version to determine its version, since that could be unsafe for embedded interpreters. Since this was already a last resort, this should have minimal impact on users. (Drop fallback to --version for version detection #359)

Bug Fixes

• AArch64 wheels can now unwind through Linux signal frames, preserving the interrupted frames when inspecting a process that's in a signal handler. (Support signal frame unwinding on AArch64 #348)
• Avoid repeated whole-map reads when a readable memory map contains an inaccessible guard page. Reads of accessible addresses in the same map now bypass the cache after the first failed cache fill. (Avoid repeated cache fills for unreadable memory maps #352)
• Prevent reading past the end of a truncated or malformed core file's NT_FILE note. (Improve handling for invalid core files #358)
• Explicitly reject core files whose endianness or word size does not match PyStack's. These would never have worked reliably, but until now the reason wasn't clearly surfaced to the user. (Reject mismatched bittedness/endianness cores #360)
• Ensure PyStack considers every PT_NOTE segment in a core file that has multiple. (Fix early return in getNoteData when multiple PT_NOTE segments exist #366)

New Contributors

• @K0u1e made their first contribution in Support signal frame unwinding on AArch64 #348
• @Gracy769 made their first contribution in Fix early return in getNoteData when multiple PT_NOTE segments exist #366

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.7.2

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