To: perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: perfctr-2.6.18 released

Version 2.6.18 of perfctr, the Linux performance monitoring
counters kernel extension, is now available at the usual
place: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/2.6/

Version 2.6.18, 2006-01-03
- Added perfctr_get_info() library API procedure, which allows
  users to acquire information about the system without needing
  a handle to an open perfctr (per-process or global) state.
- Rearranged structure marshalling descriptor declarations to
  increase code sharing for all supported architectures.
- Updated kernel support: 2.6.15, 2.6.14, 2.6.9-22.0.1 (RHEL4),
  2.6.5-7.201 (SuSE), 2.4.33-pre1, 2.4.32.

/ Mikael Pettersson