v2024.04.01

This release updates XED according to Intel's latest APX spec (Rev-04), April 2024.

It includes:

• Remove promoted SHA and KeyLocker EVEX instructions
• Encoding update for URDMSR/UWRMSR
• Addition of missing CPUID sensitivity for promoted POPCNT EVEX instruction
• Update the handling of EVEX.U and reinterpretation to X4

General:

• Enable a secured build using a new --security-level mfile.py knob (1->Medium, 2->High, 3->Highest).
  The default level is 1 (will be raised to 2 in a future release)
  Please expect performance degradation with level 3.
• Drop the ICC/ICL build options using mfile.py

Added:

• AMX: Support the restriction of illegal register combination (Solves #303)
• Disassembler: Print sequential registers using "+(N-1)" notation
• Add ENC2 support for Intel APX architecture (TBD: REX2 for EGPR support)
• Add ENC2 support for KOP instructions

Fixed:

• ISA definition fixes (APX/MOVDIR64B missing operands, Fix CPUID for SYS{ENTER,EXIT}, fix MMX extensions)
• RFLAGS: Fix width definition and wrong duplicated operands for several instructions (Solves #320)
• Fix CPL definition for ENQCMDS (Solves #311)
• Fix CPL definition for LGDT (Solves #312)
• Fix CPL definition for VMCALL (Solves #313)
• Several bug fixes and improvements for the ENC2 library.
  For a list of unsupported IFORMS, please check the enc2_unsupported_ref.json file.
• Fix build with the clang built of llvm-project trunk (Solves #315)

Modified:

• Improve Python code quality (Solves #314, Solves #317)

We express our gratitude to all members of the XED community for their valuable contributions.

Full Changelog: v2023.12.19...v2024.04.01