Changelog

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All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.7.6] - (unreleased)

  • Add support to jit precompiled native code sections (avmN)

[0.7.5] - (2025.08.18)

  • Fix unnecessary warning about missing sasl
  • Corrected install documentation

[0.7.4] - (2025.05.25)

  • Add support for OTP-28
  • Added missing license files, and CI workflow to ensure reuse compliance

This release includes changes from 0.7.3 that were not included in the release due to a bad release tag.

[0.7.3] (2024.06.06)

  • Fix broken create task in the cli tool.

[0.7.2] (2023.11.24)

  • Make use of profiles to minimize downstream dependencies
  • Fix install.sh script on FreeBSD platform

[0.7.1] (2023.10.22)

  • Enhanced packbeam_api to make it more maintainable.
  • Changed documentation to use rebar3_ex_doc

[0.7.0] (2022.10.17)

  • Added version sub-command to print version to the console
  • Added -r, --remove option and removed the -i, --include option, which was ineffective due to a bug. See the Updating notes on the impact of these changes.

[0.6.2] (2023.10.14)

  • Added relx stanzas to create a standalone release of the packbeam utility
  • Added install scripts to simplify installation for users

[0.6.1] (2023.07.16)

  • Added extract sub-command

[0.6.0] (2022.12.18)

Added

  • Added ability to include <<"Line">> chunks in BEAM files in generated AVM files
  • Added CI build

Changed

  • Changed the packbeam_api:create function to take a single map for optional parameters, instead of coding paramters into function arguments. Previous versions of the packbeam_api:create function that take optional parameters have been deprecated.

[0.5.0] (2022.08.28)

Added

  • Added ability to specify a module name for ordinary (non-BEAM) files (API-only).
  • Added support for tracking dependencies using application spec files as binaries (API-only)
  • Added PropEr test
  • Added new format option to the list subcommand, supporting csv, bare, and default options.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug in parsing non-BEAM files in included AVM files, which would cause non-BEAM file contents to be loaded incorrectly.

Changed

  • Changed the command line syntax to support long and short option names using GNU-style conventions; deprecated single-hyphen short options.
  • Moved packbeam API functionality into packbeam_api module. Previous packbeam API functions now call corresponding packbeam_api functions and are deprecated.

[0.4.1] (2022.06.19)

Added

  • Added unit tests

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that failed to track atoms that occur in BEAM LitT tables

Changed

  • Weakened the test for finding a start BEAM file such that it only requires that the ?BEAM_START_FLAG be set, for compatibility with ExAtomVM.

[0.4.0] (2022.05.21)

Added

  • Added erlfmt plugin and formatted code.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that prevented packbeam files that include priv files from being properly loaded.

[0.3.0] (2022.01.15)

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug in pulling in dependent BEAM files based on the atoms table

[0.2.0] (2021.04.03)

Added

  • Added support for deployment to hex

Fixed

  • Uncompressed literals table

[0.1.0] (2020.05.17)

  • Initial Release