Version 0.9.1

July 27, 2016

We are thrilling to announce a stable release, version 0.9.1, of Keystone Engine!

Full source code & precompiled binaries are available in the download section.
A Github repo for Keystone is ready at https://github.com/keystone-engine/keystone.
See documentation for how to compile and install Keystone.
Learn quick from this tutorial on how to program with Keystone in C & Python.

This version fixes some important bugs inside the core of Keystone (especially X86 assembler), added some new bindings & made some minor improvements, without breaking compatibility. All users of Keystone are encouraged to upgrade to v0.9.1.

NOTE: Keystone is now available on PyPi in keystone-engine package. This package includes the core, Cmake is required to build the shared library. Then Python users can easily install Keystone with:

$ sudo pip install keystone-engine

See below for the changelog.

Core & tool

Fix a segfault in kstool (on missing assembly input).
kstool now allows to specify instruction address.
Build Mac libraries in universal format by default.
Add “lib32” option to cross-compile to 32-bit *nix (on 64-bit system).
Add “lib_only” option to only build libraries (skip kstool).
New bindings: Haskell & OCaml.

X86

Fix instructions: LJMP, LCALL, CDQE, SHR, SHL, SAR, SAL, LOOP, LOOPE, LOOPNE.
Better handling a lot of tricky input caught by assert() before.
Better support for Nasm syntax.

Arm

Fix BLX instruction.

Python binding

Better Python3 support.
Expose @stat_count in KsError class when ks_asm() returns with error. See sample code in bindings/python/sample_asm_count.py

Go binding

Fix Go binding for 32-bit