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This page lists recent CRIU releases.

With 2.x, we decided to make several technologies available as standalone projects (e.g. Compel) and release new stuff faster than once every 3 months (see release schedule).

v. 2.12

Tarball:	criu-2.12.tar.bz2
Version:	2.12 "Vulcanite Rook"
Released:	8 Mar 2017
GIT tag:	v2.12

New features

• C/R of
  • external TTYs (for Docker C/R)

Optimizations/improvements

• Sanitized the way the -v works

Fixes

• Checking features via RPC crashed
• Resting pipes in user-namespaces could fail on modern kernels
• Shutdown state for UNIX sockets could be lost on restore
• Dump of huge (over 2Gb) SysV shmem segments didn't work

v. 2.11.1

Tarball:	criu-2.11.1.tar.bz2
Version:	2.11.1
Released:	17 Feb 2017
GIT tag:	v2.11.1

Fixes

• Page server start via RPC was broken
• Fedora build didn't work
• Ppc64LE restorer switch crashed

v. 2.11

Tarball:	criu-2.11.tar.bz2
Version:	2.11 "Acrylic Bullfinch"
Released:	13 Feb 2017
GIT tag:	v2.11

New features

• Added "pre-resume" to action scripts
• New --status-fd option for better control of page server
• C/R
  • OFD file locks
  • RO root mount for mount namespaces

Optimizations/improvements

• More strict checks for extra CLI options
• Report errors when probing locks
• Restorer logs now contain timestamps

Fixes

• Regression: v2.10 was broken on ARM
• Use-after-free when restoring ghost directory
• Array out-of-bound access when restoring VETH device
• Page server exit code could be screwed up
• Clang over-optimized string.h routines resulting in random crashes
• Parasite failed to send FDs via socket on Alpine Linux
• Restore of huge file tables could get stuck
• Restore of epoll in epoll could fail
• Errno value could be lost when reporting failure to restore invisible files
• Dump of sched params didn't work on Alpine
• Restore of huge memory dumps (over 2G) failed
• Installation guessed /lib vs /lib64 with errors
• Migration between xsave and noxsave didn't work for wrong cpu feature being checked

v. 2.10

Tarball:	criu-2.10.tar.bz2
Version:	2.10 "Brass Waxwing"
Released:	16 Jan 2017
GIT tag:	v2.10

New features

• C/R of SOCK_PACKET sockets
• Libsoccr -- library for C/R of TCP sockets
  • Support for transitional states

Optimizations/improvements

• Logs cleaned up (removed bunch of useless, fixed '\n' in perrors)
• Action scripts errors are printed in logs
• Removed several iovec-s copying over the pagemap code
• Restore degraded linearly on Xen guests. Breakpoints disabled until solution

Fixes

• Py bindings fault on restore error delivery
• Fd leaked on file restore error path
• Fd leaked when restoring invisible files (gets closed with criu exit though)
• Link remap restore could fail on kernels 4.8 and higher
• Impossible to restore after restore error with link remap file in images
• When going daemon a descriptor could be leaked
• Custom setting of mmap_min_addr could make restore to fail
• Sending pages over UNIX socket could race and fail with EAGAIN
• Error getting ID of /proc/pid/ns/foo link not propagated and could result in bogus NS ID generated

v. 2.9

Tarball:	criu-2.9.tar.bz2
Version:	2.9 "Silk Tit"
Released:	12 Dec 2016
GIT tag:	v2.9

New features

• CRIU can now be built with clang on all supported architectures
• Ignore missing sysctls on restore with --weak-sysctl
• C/R overmounted mountpoints

Optimizations/improvements

• Batch restore of memory contents from pages.img files
• Link-remap type for invisible files is explicit in images
• Man page for CRIT

Fixes

• C/R with --empty-ns still handled iptables configuration
• SCM messages inside UNIX socket got lost after C/R (now dump aborted)
• Empty unixsk.img file appeared when dumping tasks without unix sockets
• Install procedure wasn't PEP-394 compliant
• CRIU blocking netfilter rules were added at the tail of the chain resulting in unlocked TCP connections
• Dump/Restore spurious failures when open() returned 0 descriptor
• When dumping shmem lots of zero pages were written into image files
• Ghost directory with more than zero ghost parents caused restore to fail
• Shared mount could escape to different group on restore

v. 2.8

Tarball:	criu-2.8.tar.bz2
Version:	2.8 "Bronze Siskin"
Released:	14 Nov 2016
GIT tag:	v2.8

New features

• Ability to configure CRIU build
• Show statistics on the screen with --display-stats
• C/R of Mac-Vlan devices

Optimizations/improvements

• x86 can now be built with clang
• When dumping files useless garbage was sent with descriptors from parasite
• The clear_tid_address and regs are printed in hex with CRIT
• Big code rework for compel (part 1)
• Removed duplicate error messages from opening /proc files

Fixes

• Restoring cgroup NS could use old path prefix
• criu check crashed on btrfs mounts
• RO external mounts in userns couldn't be restored
• Unmounted on host binfmt_misc could cause dump to fail
• Off-by-one could cause criu crash when dumping shared / bind-mount
• Mount namespace' roots could have flags changed on restore
• Dying tasks could erroneously be tried to dump
• Swapped shared memory pages were not dumped
• Errno value can be sometimes spoiled by RPC
• Restore of netns with newer iproute2 tool could fail

Deprecated

• --ext-unix-sk, --veth-pair and --ext-mount-map, by --external

v. 2.7

Tarball:	criu-2.7.tar.bz2
Version:	2.7 "Rubber Owl"
Released:	17 Oct 2016
GIT tag:	v2.7

New features

• Option --cgroup-root now makes sense on dump too
• CLOCK_BOOTTIME timer supported

Optimizations/improvements

• Output of iptables command leaked into logs for no use
• Helper dev environment installation script for Debian
• Man-page updated and prettified :)

Fixes

• Unmounted binfmt_misc with rules wasn't dumped at all
• Malloc() error could result in crash
• Device cgroup restore could fail restoring empty record
• Some entries in device cgroups were restored twice
• Potential crash when dumping cgroup bindmounts
• Sign error caused dump to fail on btrfs partitions
• Shared mounts with the same mount path failed the dump
• Threads were restored with unshared FS (cwd and root)
• Shared memory changes tracking disabled (regression found)
• Restore of autofs can hang
• LSM profile propagation could be lost
• Mountpoint with lots of options blocked the dump (too small buffer for parsing)
• External slave mount (with external master) blocked the dump
• Mounts with STRICTATIME restored with others flags dropped

Deprecated

• No reg-file entry for TTYs

v. 2.6

Tarball:	criu-2.6.tar.bz2
Version:	2.6 "Paper Crane"
Released:	12 Sep 2016
GIT tag:	v2.6

New features

• Ability to leave process stopped after restore
• Memory changes tracking for anonymous shared memory
  • Shared memory images deduplication too, as a part of it
• Deprecation option/environment
• First error message is reported back via RPC
• C/R of
  • More IPCNS sysctls
  • xIDs of PTYs
  • TMEM on PPC64LE

Optimizations/improvements

• Use service FD for transport sockets on restore
• Ability to turn pagemap-cache off (some kernels are buggy)
• The criu --help text has become better

Fixes

• R/O-mounted root could block the dump
• Restore of cgroup.mm.oom_control could fail
• Cgroup fs bind mounts were detected with error
• Unaligned futex-es in parasite could cause dump to crash
• When compiled with gcc-4.9 parasite code crashed
• Failure to freeze cgroup didn't result in aborting of dump
• Wrong ns list was parsed when dumping userns (invisible since nesting works only for mntns)
• Non-inheritable non-tty as stdin caused shell-job restore to erroneously fail
• Error path in criu dedup could crash

Deprecated

• Per-pid rlimit, itimers and posix-timers
• Separate image for epoll tfds (target file descriptors)

v. 2.5

Tarball:	criu-2.5.tar.bz2
Version:	2.5 "Concrete Oriole"
Released:	15 Aug 2016
GIT tag:	v2.5

New features

• C/R
  • fs.mqueue.msg*_default sysctls
  • Unix sockets with overwritten paths
  • Link-remap files in removed directories

Optimizations/improvements

• Micro-optimization on namespace ID evaluation
• Restoring shared files uses one socket instead of per-fd ones
• More verbosity when refusing to dump a file descriptor

Fixes

• Restore could fail on openat() with ENXIO when multiple mnt namespaces get restored
• The criu exec action got broken
• Link-remap and ghost files remained on FS after restore failure
• TCP window could remain clamped after restore resulting in connection lockup/slowdown
• Dump could stuck when injecting a parasite
• The --timeout option wasn't taken into account when freezing tasks using freezecg
• Race in freezeing/seizing could result in lost tasks
• Memory leaks here and there on error paths
• Double free in xvstrcat (crash)
• VDSO length was mis-calculated
• Symlink on --root path could make restore erroneously fail
• Potential memory corruption on reading mntns images
• When restoring on systems with low pid_max limit restore could fail
• RO-protected SysV shmem segments could be restored with PROT_EXEC
• File mode of mapped file was evaluated with errors
• Restore of cgroups' mem.swappines and ..use_hierarchy blocked sub-groups creation
• Impossible to restore cgoup mem.swappines default value
• Zombies living in orphan sessions/groups failed the restore

v. 2.4

Tarball:	criu-2.4.tar.bz2
Version:	2.4 "Marble Lark"
Released:	11 Jul 2016
GIT tag:	v2.4

New features

• Generate core from images
• Ability to forcibly drop half-open TCP connections on C/R
• Ability to specify cgroup ctls to dump via API
• Opened/mapped files' mode is compared between dump and restore times
• C/R of
  • AutoFS mountpoints
  • New cgroups (perf_event, net_cls, net_prio and pids)
  • Memcgroup optional properties
  • Devices cgroup

Optimizations/improvements

• Pagemap image entries are cached in memory

Fixes

• Configured kmem cgroup limit restore failed
• Mem cgroup oom_control
• Cgroup's pids.max was not C/R-ed
• Failure to write cgroup property was ignored
• No init PID in pre-dump action script
• Sigactions inheritance didn't work on ARM
• Opened "/proc" dir blocked the dump
• Working with iptables was racy
• Sibling mounts detection error on dump
• Devconf accept_redirects devconf could be restored with errors
• "All" devconfs could be overridden by "Default"
• Name-less unix sockets got auto-bound
• Mode was lost for PTY device file on restore
• Newer protobuf compilers didn't recognize PB files
• External mounts could be remounted with MS_PRIVATE
• Build fail on Alpine Linux

Deprecated/removed

• Per-pid file locks images
• Per-pid fdinfo images
• Ancient pagemap/pages images

v. 2.3

Tarball:	criu-2.3.tar.bz2
Version:	2.3 "Wooden Duck"
Released:	14 Jun 2016
GIT tag:	v2.3

New features

• Ability not to show payload for some objects in CRIT
• Pidfile is written at the end of restore
• Ability to join existing namespaces on restore
• C/R of
  • Data sitting in TTYs
  • Partially write-protected SysVIPC segments
  • Debugfs and tracefs mounts
  • Overmounted tmpfs
  • IPv6 devconf sysctls
  • External block devices
  • Unix sockets with mismatched shutdown state

Optimizations/improvements

• Relaxed calculation of AIO ring size
• Tree-based search of tasks by real pid
• Less mem-to-mem copies on restore
• Saner devconf image format
• More verbose explanation of why task cannot be seized
• PID is printed in PIE logs

Fixes

• Too many mmap-ed files blocked the dump
• Potential memory corruption when working with IPv6 sockets
• Overmounted bind mounts could cause restore to fail
• Overmounted bind mounts could result in badly restored mount tree
• Incomplete restoration of RO bind mounts options

Deprecated/removed

• Greedy mode of pagemap (non-root) caused dump to fail (disabled)

v. 2.2

Tarball:	criu-2.2.tar.bz2
Version:	2.2 "Carbon Nightingale"
Released:	16 May 2016
GIT tag:	v2.2

New features

• Uninstall action in Makfilefile
• "Post-resume" added to action scripts
• Root task's PID in environment for action scripts
• C/R of
  • Devconfs drop_gratuitous_arp and drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast
• * Serial ttys

Optimizations/improvements

• Lighter link-remaps restore on newer kernels

Fixes

• Race when restoring userns vs setting ns' maps
• Tasks with zero fds failed the dump
• Restore of TCP recv queue could fail due to kernel mem alloc constraints
• No errors were written to logs when launching helper (tar/iptables) app in userns restore
• User-mode dumped no memory pages sometimes
• Bind mounts considered not as bind sometimes
• Two mounts in the same directory blocked the dump
• Off-by in on /dev/tty{1,63} dumping
• Forking of cgroupns task was done with screwed clone flags

Deprecated/removed

• Greedy mode of pagemap dumping (on some kernels we do not support user-mode)
• Removed the --namespaces option

v. 2.1

Tarball:	criu-2.1.tar.bz2
Version:	2.1 "Steel Lapwing"
Released:	11 Apr 2016
GIT tag:	v2.1

New features

• Checking now classifies features to important/extra/experimental
• Ability to bring some disk files into images. See $source/scripts/tmp-files.sh
• C/R of
  • Completed AIO requests
  • Fallback gre and gretap net devices

Optimizations/improvements

• Code coverage collecting now works
• Use native rtnl library for netlink messages processing
• Using --output - now results in stdout as log, not a file with the name "-"
• Signals are printed by names in logs

Fixes

• Make tar generated tarbal with bad name
• CG restore code lacked rollback in some places
• Error code from raw syscalls was treated with errors resulting in wrong criu check reports
• Dumping task with HUGE amount of file descriptors failed
• Task could be stopped after pre-dump if respective option was used
• A /proc/pid directory from dead process conflicting with a new alive one could cause dump to fail
• Zombie from alien session/process group caused restore to fail
• CGroup fs was wrongly mounted in CGNS on restore
• Irmap scan was mis-checking devices numbers
• Use-after-free in irmap scan
• Btrfs bindmounts detection was mistaken due to 'subvol=' options met
• Propagation of mountpoint's shared groups was lost for propagated mounts
• Unaligned allocations of restore shared memory could result in codedumps when used by futexes
• Temporary mountpoints could result in spurious propagations
• When aborting the dump criu could crash on use-after-free objects
• Locking the network could stuck doing the DNS resolve
• Several build fixes

Deprecated/removed

• The images from criu prior to 0.4 are deprecated
• The --namespaces option makes no sense and is also deprecated
• The --ms option for check action is deprecated

v. 2.0

Tarball:	criu-2.0.tar.bz2
Version:	2.0
Released:	7 Mar 2016
GIT tag:	v2.0

New features

• New code layout for sub-projects (e.g. Compel)
• Unprivileged dump
• Dump/check cpuinfo support for PPC
• Explorers for CRIT
• Added "post-setup-namespaces" to action scripts
• Added timeout for dump procedure (5 sec by default)
• Ability to override LSM profile on restore with CLI/RPC option
• External bind mounts can be fs-root mounts too
• Skip netns' internals on dump and restore (for Docker integration)
• Advanced support for external files
  • External TTYs
• C/R for
  • Mode and uid/gid of cgroup files and dirs
  • Freeze cgroup state (frozen/thawed)
  • Task's loginuid and oom score
  • Per-thread credentials
  • Filter mode of seccomp
  • Ghost file in removed directory
  • Ghost files lutimes
  • Binfmt-misc FS contents
  • Netfilter conntracks and expectations
  • Multi-headed cgroups
  • CGroup namespaces (no nesting)

Optimizations/improvements

• Align parasite stack on 16 bits for correctness
• Compilation with native libc syscall wrappers and helpers
• Parasite code injection done via memfd system call
• Make vaddr to pfn conversion with one less syscall
• CRIT shows device numbers in "maj:min" manner
• CRIT shows mmap's status in verbose
• Docker files for builds on all supported arches

Fixes

• Absent readlink syscall on ARM (use readlinkat instead) could cause dump to fail
• Wrong argument to timer_create system call could cause restore to crash
• Extra tasks in freeze cgroup caused dump to fail/hand/crash
• Unaligned restore-time object allocations caused lock operations to fail
• Opened /proc/pid dir of dead task failed the dump
• Unaligned stacks caused criu to fail on aarch64
• Changed device numbers on restore side could cause random failures
• Fixes in mount points sharing/slavery/propagation restore
• Race between mntns creation and fds closing in different tasks could cause restore to fail
• Hard kernel limit on TCP repair recv queue restore could cause big queue restore to fail
• Unconnected dgram UNIX socket with data lost packets on restore
• CRIT didn't show IPC objects
• CRIT didn't convert IP addresses in images
• Logs from PIE code contained corrupted addresses and sizes
• Not loaded netfilter modules could cause dump/restore to stuck on dumping netlink socket
• Shared external mounts were restored with error

Security

• User-mode
• When checking for namespaces' CRIU entered userns with host creds

Deprecated/removed

• Completely removed 'show' action. Use CRIT instead.

Older releases

• 1.x
• 0.x