I have tagged and tarballed a 0.1 release of Sparse, now available from: sha1sum: 9e0a4d5abb8e8a4be4cf8d9fe632c69dbec3e242 As discussed in , I've taken maintainership of sparse. Thanks to Linus Torvalds for his previous maintainership. As a result, this release comes from my sparse Git repository. You can obtain the latest version of sparse directly from my Git repository with the command: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/sparse.git You can also browse the Git repository via gitweb, at This release corresponds to the Git tag "0.1", signed by my GPG key, with key ID D0FE7AFB. In the sparse Git repository, you can verify this tag with the command: git verify-tag 0.1 I've chosen to use a versioning system similar to the current system used for the Linux kernel, with s/2\.6/0/. The major number (0 for this release) will change only with major architectural changes to Sparse. The minor number (1 for this release) represents the normal release number; thus, the next release will have version 0.2. If a need arises to make bugfixes to a released version of sparse, the bugfix versions will use a third, micro number; for example, a bugfix release for 0.1 would use the version number 0.1.1. (I considered the idea of using the old Linux versioning system, with the odd/even unstable/stable convention for the second number, but I believe that git feature branches should satisfy any need for an "unstable" tree.) In addition to all the work in the previous Sparse repository (pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git), this release includes the following changes: Adam DiCarlo (1): Add type information to enum mismatch warning Al Viro (2): added a bunch of gcc builtins switch to hash-based get_one_special() Josh Triplett (15): "Initializer entry defined twice" should not trigger with zero-size fields Fix incorrect symbol in comment on #endif for multiple-inclusion guard Add -Wno-uninitialized graph: Show position in basic block nodes bb_terminated: Use boundary values rather than specific opcodes Turn on -Wcontext by default Merge branch 'fix-defined-twice-error-on-empty-struct' into staging Merge branch 'graph' into staging merge branch 'more-warning-flags' into staging and fix conflicts merge branch 'no-semantic-h' into staging and fix conflicts Merge branch 'Wcontext-default' into staging Add test cases to validation/context.c for the Linux __cond_lock macro Merge branch 'context-test-cases-for-cond-lock' into josh Rename test case bad-assignement.c to bad-assignment.c, fixing the typo. Stop building and installing libsparse.so Josh Triplett and Pavel Roskin (1): Recognize and ignore __alias__ and __visibility__ Pavel Roskin (4): Compile sparse executable under it's own name, not as "check" Add support for __builtin_strpbrk() Typo fixes Install cgcc on "make install", refactor installation code Known issue with this release: * Sparse does not produce the expected set of warnings for several of the validation programs, included in the sparse source in the directory validation/ . Some scripts should provoke warnings but don't, and others provoke warnings they shouldn't. I've also put up a sparse website, at . This site will include news and updates about sparse (including release announcements), information on obtaining sparse, and documentation about sparse. This new website uses ikiwiki , by Joey Hess, and the ikiwiki Git backend. I plan to move the underlying Git repository to kernel.org as soon as I get ikiwiki and its dependencies installed on master.kernel.org. - Josh Triplett