Release Version 6.1.0

This release is a very major release and changes several aspects of the API, build, and underlying Simics API. It also adds a number of new features. Some highlights include:

• Compiled-in harnesses have been updated. This update is backward-incompatible with the old version of harnesses so users will need to use the new tsffs.h harness header.
  • Existing harness macros stay the same
  • New harness macros have been added for starting with variations of buffer, size as pointer or maximum value, etc.
  • Macros are now available for x86, x86_64, ARM, AARCH64, and RISC-V, with Windows/MSVC compatible macros for x86_64.
• All functions @tsffs.iface.tsffs.XXX have been removed
• All configuration options are now attributes of the tsffs object. For example, @tsffs.iface.tsffs.add_exception_solution() is now @tsffs.exceptions and instead of calling a method to add an exception to the set tracked for solutions, users can now just write @tsffs.exceptions = [13, 14, 6].
• Methods which control fuzzing (especially manual methods) have been moved to a new interface @tsffs.iface.fuzz, for example @tsffs.iface.fuzz.start_without_buffer().
• Execution traces can now be captured during fuzzing
• Logs are automatically output during fuzzing in JSON format
• ARM and AARCH64 architectures have been added
• Various bug-fixes and improvements.

What's Changed

• Fix doc links by @novafacing in #43
• Switch to external command-ext library by @novafacing in #44
• External command ext by @novafacing in #46
• Use crates.io libafl and miscellaneous cleanups by @novafacing in #48
• Fix cargo script syntax for new nightly (Rust issue #122207) by @novafacing in #50
• Cargo script fixes (2) by @novafacing in #51
• Doc link fixes by @novafacing in #52
• Remove utils by @novafacing in #49
• Stop before start by @novafacing in #67
• Add additional logging and debug logging consumer for libafl code by @novafacing in #68
• New harness by @novafacing in #69
• Fixup versioning for simics APIs and add versioned tests by @novafacing in #75
• Remove LibAFL InProcess Executor Timeout by @novafacing in #77
• Windows kernel fuzzing docs by @novafacing in #70
• Add missing script from windows kernel fuzzing docs by @novafacing in #79
• Update README.md by @rogue4242 in #82
• Fix risc-v-kernel-module tutorial and example code by @mengmengjiang1999 in #72
• Add arm architecture by @novafacing in #76
• Add option to output execution traces during fuzzing by @novafacing in #81
• Release versioning for 6.1.0 by @novafacing in #84

New Contributors

• @rogue4242 made their first contribution in #82
• @mengmengjiang1999 made their first contribution in #72

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v6.1.0