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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1f56704135..2d8621af7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-12-12 -Copyright (C) 1992-2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2008-4-9 +Copyright (C) 1992-2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> @@ -10,6 +10,33 @@ Version 2.8 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN. * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8. + +* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati). + Implemented by Pravin Satpute. + +* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID + +* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf, + vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf. + Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. + +* Faster memset for x86-64. + Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu. + +* Faster memcpy on x86. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX). + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants. + Implemented by Stephen Munroe. Version 2.7 |