v0.9.0

This release continues support for Go 1.19 and the upcoming Go 1.20.

Noteworthy changes include:

• Randomize the magic number header in pclntab - #622
• Further reduce binary sizes with -tiny by 4% - #633
• Reduce the size overhead of all builds by 2% - #629
• Reduce the binary size overhead of -literals by 20% - #637
• Support assembly references to the current package name - #619
• Support package paths with periods in assembly - #621

Note that the first two changes are done by patching and rebuilding Go's linker.
While this adds complexity, it enables more link time obfuscation.

Thanks to @pagran and @lu4p for their contributions!

v0.8.0

This release drops support for Go 1.18, continues support for Go 1.19, and adds initial support for the upcoming Go 1.20.

Noteworthy changes include:

• GOGARBLE=* is now the default to obfuscate all packages - #594
• GOPRIVATE is no longer used, being deprecated in v0.5.0
• Obfuscate assembly source code filenames - #605
• Randomize the lengths of obfuscated names
• Support obfuscating time and syscall
• Avoid reflect method call panics if reflect is obfuscated

Thanks to @Azrotronik, @lu4p, and @capnspacehook for contributing to this release!

v0.7.2

This bugfix release continues support for Go 1.18 and 1.19 and features:

• Fix an edge case resulting in bad syntax due to comments - #573
• Avoid a panic involving generic code - #577
• Obfuscate Go names in assembly header files - #553
• Support garble reverse on packages using cgo or assembly - #555

v0.7.1

This bugfix release finishes support for Go 1.19 and features:

• Obfuscate all cgo filenames to not leak import paths
• Support obfuscating net and runtime/debug
• Don't leak temporary directories after obfuscating
• Fix an edge case resulting in broken import declarations
• Reduce allocations involved in obfuscating code

v0.7.0

This release drops support for Go 1.17, continues support for Go 1.18, and adds initial support for the upcoming Go 1.19.

Noteworthy changes include:

• Initial support for obfuscating generic code - #414
• Remove unused imports in -literals more reliably - #481
• Support obfuscating package paths ending with .go - #539
• Support installing garble in paths containing spaces - #544
• Avoid a panic when obfuscating variadic functions - #524
• Avoid a "refusing to list package" panic in garble test - #522
• Some module builds are now used as regression tests - #240

Thanks to @lu4p, @pagran, and @shellhazard for their contributions in this release!

v0.6.0

This release adds support for Go 1.18 while continuing support for Go 1.17.x. Note that building generic code isn't supported just yet.

Noteworthy changes include:

• Obfuscation is now fully deterministic with a fixed -seed - #449
• Improve support for type aliases to fix some build failures - #466
• Add support for quotes in -ldflags as per go help build - #492
• Fail if the current Go version is newer than what built garble - #269
• Various optimizations resulting in builds being up to 5% faster - #456

Thanks to @lu4p and @capnspacehook for their contributions in this release!

v0.5.1

This bugfix release features:

• Obfuscate exported names in main packages
• Fix build errors when using -literals with GOGARBLE=*
• Avoid breaking -ldflags=-X when -literals is used
• Avoid link errors when using -debugdir
• Speed up obfuscating the runtime package

v0.5.0

This release of Garble adds initial support for the upcoming Go 1.18, continues support for Go 1.17.x, and drops support for Go 1.16.x. Note that building generic code isn't supported just yet.

Two breaking changes are introduced:

• Deprecate the use of GOPRIVATE in favor of GOGARBLE (see #276)
• garble reverse now requires a main package argument

Noteworthy changes include:

• Improve detection of reflect usage even further
• Support obfuscating some more standard library packages
• Improve literal obfuscation by using constant folding
• Add the -debug flag to log details of the obfuscated build
• Ensure the runtime package is built in a reproducible way
• Obfuscate local variable names to prevent shadowing bugs
• Fix and test support for using garble on 32-bit hosts

v0.4.0

This release of Garble adds support for Go 1.17.x while maintaining support for
Go 1.16.x. A few other noteworthy changes are included:

• Support obfuscating literals in more edge cases with -literals
• Improve detection of reflect usage with standard library APIs
• Names exported for cgo are no longer obfuscated
• Avoid breaking consts using iota with -literals

Known bugs:

• obfuscating the entire standard library with GOPRIVATE=* is not well supported yet

v0.3.0

This release of Garble fixes a number of bugs and improves existing features,
while maintaining support for Go 1.16.x. Notably:

• Make builds reproducible even when cleaning GOCACHE
• Detecting types used with reflection is more reliable
• Cross builds with GOPRIVATE=* are now supported
• Support conversion between struct types from different packages
• Improve support for type aliases
• Function names used with go:linkname are now obfuscated
• garble reverse can now reverse field names and lone filenames

Known bugs:

• obfuscating the entire standard library with GOPRIVATE=* is not well supported yet

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