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crash-context

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Provides portable types containing target specific contextual information at the time of a crash

Last release 2 months ago
17 Jul 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 8 days to 1.5 years
Most releases are documented
notes for 13 of 16 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
5 years old
16 releases · first in 2022

Release timeline

16 releases since 2022

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Releases

0.8.017 Jul 20262 sources agree
PR#113 added support for loongarch64 getcontext .
Added

PR#113 added support for loongarch64 getcontext.

Changed

PR#190 moved this crate from https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling.
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Removed

PR#77 removed the dependency on winapi, all bindings are either part of minidump-writer or crash-context now.

Changed

PR#77 closed #67 by allowing the user to specify the MinidumpType flags when creating a minidump.

Fixed

PR#68 resolved #29 by ignoring the bening ESRCH error when detaching pthreads. Thanks @afranchuk!

PR#74 resolved #73 by ensuring the NT_GNU_BUILD_ID section had the proper correct GNU name before using it as the build identifier.

0.7.013 Jan 2026

PR#65 updated crash-context to 0.5, which has support for a custom capture_context to replace RtlCaptureContext on Windows, due to improper bindings a

Changed

PR#65 updated crash-context to 0.5, which has support for a custom capture_context to replace RtlCaptureContext on Windows, due to improper bindings and deficiencies, resolving #63.
PR#65 replaced most of the custom bindings from PR#60 with bindings from either crash-context or winapi.

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Added

PR#102 added support for RISCV64 getcontext.
PR#109 added support for s390x getcontext.

Changed

PR#111 updated MSRV to 1.85.0.

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0.6.03 Apr 2023

PR#60 removed the dependency on windows-sys due the massive version churn, resolving #58. This should allow projects to more easily integrate this cra

Changed

PR#60 removed the dependency on windows-sys due the massive version churn, resolving #58. This should allow projects to more easily integrate this crate into their project without introducing multiple versions of transitive dependencies.
PR#62 replaced MDExceptionCodeLinux with minidump_common::ExceptionCodeLinux.
PR#64 updated dependencies.

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Changed

PR#70 removed the winapi dependency in favor of embedded bindings to avoid dependencies.
PR#70 removed the asm implementations for Windows CPU context retrieval in favor of using RtlCaptureContext. This means that floating state is not captured, but is otherwise and improvement.

Added

PR#68 added capture context support for x86 Windows, but this change was supplanted in PR#70 to use RtlCaptureContext instead.

Fixed

PR#71 fixed the definition of mcontext_t for i686-unknow-linux. Thanks @afranchuk!

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0.5.017 Nov 2022

PR#53 made the mem_writer and dir_section modules public. Thanks @sage-msft!

Changed

PR#53 made the mem_writer and dir_section modules public. Thanks @sage-msft!
PR#55 bumped nix, minidump-common, minidump, minidump-processor and dump_syms. Thanks @sfackler!
PR#57 bumped windows-sys to 0.42.

Removed

PR#56 removed the writing of the HandleOperationListStream stream, as it was essentially untested and was of dubious usefulness.

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Added

PR#62 added a replacement implementation of RtlCaptureContext, and defines its own CONTEXT structure. This was needed due to both winapi and windows-sys incorrectly defining the CONTEXT and related structures on both x86_64 and aarch64 to not be correctly aligned, as well as RtlCaptureContext not actually capturing the floating point and vector state.

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0.4.021 Jul 2022

PR#50 updated minidump-common and crash-context.

Changed

PR#50 updated minidump-common and crash-context.

Fixed

PR#50 resolved #33 by encoding the full exception info in the exception_information field of the exception stream.
PR#50 resolved #34 by unwrapping EXC_CRASH exceptions to retrieve the wrapped exception.

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Added

PR#46 added support for unpacking EXC_RESOURCE exceptions on MacOS.
PR#47 added support for unpacking EXC_GUARD exceptions on MacOS.

Changed

PR#47 changed ExceptionInfo to use unsigned types for all of its fields. While these are declared as signed, in practice all usage of them is as unsigned integers.

Fixed

PR#47 fixed a potential issue with the IPC exception passing due to the structure's not being #[repr(C, packed(4))], and the receiving side not (properly) accounting for the trailer that is added by the kernel to every mach msg.

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0.3.023 May 2022

PR#42 resolved #41 by capping the VM read of task memory to avoid a syscall failure, as well as made it so that if an error does occur when reading th

Fixed

PR#42 resolved #41 by capping the VM read of task memory to avoid a syscall failure, as well as made it so that if an error does occur when reading the module's file path, the module is still written to the minidump, as the file path is less important than the UUID in terms of module identification.
PR#44 resolved #43 by correctly calculating the base address of each loaded module. The bug was inherited from Breakpad.
PR#44 and PR#45 resolved #37 by making the crash_context::CrashContext optional on MacOS and Windows, to make creating a minidump without necessarily having an actual crash more convenient for users.

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Added

First usable release of crash-context, crash-handler, sadness-generator, and minidumper crates.

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0.1.021 Apr 2022

Initial release, including basic support for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/musl and x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

Added

Initial release, including basic support for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/musl and x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

[Unreleased]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.13.0...HEAD [0.13.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.12.0...0.13.0 [0.12.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.11.0...0.12.0 [0.11.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.10.2...0.11.0 [0.10.2]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.10.1...0.10.2 [0.10.1]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.10.0...0.10.1 [0.10.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.9.0...0.10.0 [0.9.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.9...0.9.0 [0.8.9]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.8...0.8.9 [0.8.8]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.7...0.8.8 [0.8.7]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.6...0.8.7 [0.8.6]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.5...0.8.6 [0.8.5]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.4...0.8.5 [0.8.4]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.3...0.8.4 [0.8.3]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.2...0.8.3 [0.8.2]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.1...0.8.2 [0.8.1]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.8.0...0.8.1 [0.8.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.7.0...0.8.0 [0.7.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.6.0...0.7.0 [0.6.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.5.0...0.6.0 [0.5.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.4.0...0.5.0 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.3.1...0.4.0 [0.3.1]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.3.0...0.3.1 [0.3.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.2.1...0.3.0 [0.2.1]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.2.0...0.2.1 [0.2.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/0.1.0...0.2.0 [0.1.0]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/releases/tag/0.1.0

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Added

Initial pass of crash-context, Linux only

[Unreleased]: https://github.com/rust-minidump/minidump-writer/compare/crash-context-0.8.0...HEAD [0.8.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-context-0.7.0...crash-context-0.8.0 [0.7.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/{{tag_name}}...crash-context-0.7.0 [0.6.3]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-context-0.6.2...{{tag_name}} [0.6.2]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-context-0.6.1...crash-context-0.6.2 [0.6.1]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-context-0.6.0...crash-context-0.6.1 [0.6.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-context-0.5.1...crash-context-0.6.0 [0.5.1]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-context-0.5.0...crash-context-0.5.1 [0.5.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-context-0.4.0...crash-context-0.5.0 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/0.3.1...crash-context-0.4.0 [0.3.1]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/0.3.0...0.3.1 [0.3.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/compare/crash-handler-v0.1.0...0.3.0 [crash-handler-v0.1.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/releases/tag/crash-handler-v0.1.0 [sadness-generator-v0.1.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/releases/tag/sadness-generator-v0.1.0 [crash-context-v0.2.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/releases/tag/crash-context-v0.2.0 [crash-context-v0.1.0]: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/crash-handling/releases/tag/crash-context-v0.1.0

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