capstone New organization for Capstone

We moved the original historical repo of Capstone from https://github.com/aquynh/capstone to an organization, where we can add more maintainers to the project, and push Capstone development forward.

Our new home is https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone

The imminent plan is to review & merge all the outstanding pull requests, and release version 5.0 based on the next branch soon.

Future development includes more often release and keep updating faster.

If you are willing to spend time to help the project, please contact us.

Nov 08 '21 02:11 aquynh

I'd be happy to help, in particular with "organization-level" items like the branching strategy in #1781. I maintain the Rust language bindings.

Nov 08 '21 02:11 tmfink

why it's not transferred but copied? it would be helpful if issues and PRs remain as it was. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

Nov 08 '21 04:11 icchy

Transfering repo is a good idea, i will try that!

Nov 08 '21 06:11 aquynh

Done, we moved to a new home, while retaining everything.

https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone

Nov 08 '21 15:11 aquynh

Hi @aquynh, we at @GrammaTech have been maintaining a fork https://github.com/GrammaTech/capstone/tree/next of capstone with some fixes. Some of these made it into the official capstone e.g. https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone/pull/1689 https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone/pull/1600, other are still waiting https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone/pull/1754. We would love to continue collaborating and contributing to the project more generally.

More recently, we started looking into updating the llvm tables, since we found some errors in the current ones. We had some difficulties simply updating the tables to a newer version of llvm (vertion 13), so for now we are just fixing the identified failures in the current tables https://github.com/GrammaTech/capstone/pull/7. Maybe with a some help, we can get to a point where we can contribute on that front too.

We are very excited to see the organization being created, and we are looking forward to collaborate!

Nov 09 '21 17:11 aeflores

Great, can you start with some description on what you want to submit?

Nov 10 '21 05:11 aquynh

I'd be happy to help, in particular with "organization-level" items like the branching strategy in #1781. I maintain the Rust language bindings.

thank you a lot, @tmfink! we are still trying to figure out how best to get valuable contributors like you involved, but unsure how yet. will let you know once we are ready

Nov 11 '21 15:11 aquynh

Is there any date planned for further rc or 5.0 releases?