LiveKd Changelog

What's new in LiveKd 5.63

May 8, 2020
  • This update fixes a regression with enumerating and dumping Hyper-V partitions on recent versions of Windows 10.

New in LiveKd 5.40 (Mar 11, 2015)

  • This update to Livekd now includes ‘live dump’ support for generating fast-snapshot crash-consistent kernel dump files using support introduced in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

New in LiveKd 5.31 (Dec 20, 2013)

  • This release fixes a debugger help library search bug and fixes a bug in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 mirror dump support.

New in LiveKd 5.3 (Oct 20, 2012)

  • now supports Windows 8

New in LiveKd 5.2 (May 15, 2012)

  • Now includes an option that has it generate a fully-consistent kernel dump file of a running system.

New in LiveKd 5.1 (Feb 17, 2012)

  • Now supports newer Intel processors that implement the XSAVE instruction.

New in LiveKd 5.0 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • LiveKd, a tool that enables live kernel debugging of Windows systems, can now debug and generate kernel dump files of Hyper-V Windows virtual machines from the parent partition without having to boot the target virtual machine in debug mode.

New in LiveKd 4.0 (Apr 29, 2010)

  • This major update to LiveKd, a utility that enables a local read-only kernel debugging of an on-line system, supports > 64 processors, includes numerous reliability enhancements, and new switch, -o, that generates a live kernel dump without having to launch a kernel debugger (thanks to Ken Johnson).

New in LiveKd 3.13 (Mar 3, 2010)

  • This version of LiveKd has better detection of the Debugging Tools package installation and launches the debugger in a mode that skips the unnecessary root-cause analysis of the virtual dump file.

New in LiveKd 3.12 (Nov 4, 2009)

  • This release fixes compatibility with 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

New in LiveKd 3.1 (Oct 2, 2009)

  • This update to LiveKd, a tool that enables you to perform local kernel debugging using the Windbg tool, adds support for systems with more than 4GB of RAM and now works on x64 systems even when they aren’t booted in debugging mode.