+kmod 32
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+
+ - Use any hash algo known by kernel/openssl instead of keep needing
+ to update the mapping
+
+ - Teach kmod to load modprobe.d/depmod.d configuration from ${prefix}/lib
+ and allow it to be overriden during build with --with-distconfdir=DIR
+
+ - Make kernel modules directory configurable. This allows distro to
+ make kmod use only files from /usr regardless of having a compat
+ symlink in place.
+
+ - Install kmod.pc containing the features selected at build time.
+
+ - Install all tools and symlinks by default. Previously kmod relied on
+ distro packaging to set up the symlinks in place like modprobe,
+ depmod, lsmod, etc. Now those symlinks are created by kmod itself
+ and they are always placed in $bindir.
+
+- Bug Fixes
+
+ - Fix warnings due to -Walloc-size
+
+- Others
+
+ - Drop python bindings. Those were not update in ages and not compatible
+ with latest python releases.
+
+ - Cleanup test infra, dropping what was not used anymore
+
+ - Drop experimental tools `kmod insert` / `kmod remove`. Building those
+ was protected by a configure option never set by distros. They also
+ didn't gain enough traction to replace the older interfaces via
+ modprobe/insmod/rmmod.
+
+kmod 31
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+
+ - Allow passing a path to modprobe so the module is loaded from
+ anywhere from the filesystem, but still handling the module
+ dependencies recorded in the indexes. This is mostly intended for kernel
+ developers to speedup testing their kernel modules without having to load the
+ dependencies manually or override the module in /usr/lib/modules/.
+ Now it's possible to do:
+
+ # modprobe ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
+
+ As long as the dependencies didn't change, this should do the right thing
+
+ - Use in-kernel decompression if available. This will check the runtime support
+ in the kernel for decompressing modules and use it through finit_module().
+ Previously kmod would fallback to the older init_module() when using
+ compressed modules since there wasn't a way to instruct the kernel to
+ uncompress it on load or check if the kernel supported it or not.
+ This requires a recent kernel (>= 6.4) to have that support and
+ in-kernel decompression properly working in the kernel.
+
+ - Make modprobe fallback to syslog when stderr is not available, as was
+ documented in the man page, but not implemented
+
+ - Better explaing `modprobe -r` and how it differentiates from rmmod
+
+ - depmod learned a `-o <dir>` option to allow using a separate output
+ directory. With this, it's possible to split the output files from
+ the ones used as input from the kernel build system
+
+ - Add compat with glibc >= 2.32.9000 that dropped __xstat
+
+ - Improve testsuite to stop skipping tests when sysconfdir is something
+ other than /etc
+
+ - Build system improvements and updates
+
+ - Change a few return codes from -ENOENT to -ENODATA to avoid confusing output
+ in depmod when the module itself lacks a particular ELF section due to e.g.
+ CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n in the kernel.
+
+
+- Bug Fixes
+
+ - Fix testsuite using uninitialized memory when testing module removal
+ with --wait
+
+ - Fix testsuite not correctly overriding the stat syscall on 32-bit
+ platforms. For most architectures this was harmless, but for MIPS it
+ was causing some tests to fail.
+
+ - Fix handling unknown signature algorithm
+
+ - Fix linking with a static liblzma, libzstd or zlib
+
+ - Fix memory leak when removing module holders
+
+ - Fix out-of-bounds access when using very long paths as argument to rmmod
+
+ - Fix warnings reported by UBSan
+
kmod 30
=======
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