garble/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Unreleased

This release of Garble fixes a number of bugs and improves existing features, while maintaining support for Go 1.16.x. Notably:

• Make builds reproducible even when cleaning GOCACHE
• Detecting types used with reflection is more reliable
• Cross builds with GOPRIVATE=* are now supported
• Support conversion between struct types from different packages
• Improve support for type aliases
• Function names used with go:linkname are now obfuscated
• garble reverse can now reverse field names and lone filenames

Known bugs:

• obfuscating the entire standard library with GOPRIVATE=* is not well supported yet

0.2.0 - 2021-04-08

This release of Garble drops support for Go 1.15.x, which is necessary for some of the enhancements below:

• New: garble test allows running Go tests built with obfuscation
• New: garble reverse allows de-obfuscating output like stack traces
• Names of functions implemented in assembly are now obfuscated
• GOPRIVATE=* now works with packages like crypto/tls and embed
• garble build can now be used with many main packages at once
• -literals is more robust and now works on all of std

The README is also overhauled to be more helpful to first-time users.

Known bugs:

• obfuscating the entire standard library with GOPRIVATE=* is not well supported yet

0.1.0 - 2021-03-05

This is the first release of Garble. It supports Go 1.15.x and 1.16.x.

It ships all the major features that have worked for the past year, including:

• Obfuscation of all names, except methods and reflect targets
• Obfuscation of package import paths and position information
• Stripping of build and module information
• Support for Go modules
• Reproducible and cacheable builds
• Stripping of extra information via -tiny
• Literal obfuscation via -literals

Known bugs:

• obfuscating the standard library with GOPRIVATE=* is not well supported yet
• garble test is temporarily disabled, as it is currently broken