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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 58cf1dab68..cadc40262f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ Major new features: supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1. +* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of + essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary + configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory + in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories + may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory + with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in + that directory. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs |