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-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  28 March 1996
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  22 June 1996
 
 Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU C library bug reports to bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu.
 
-Version 1.10
+Version 2.0
 
 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default.  To enable them you
   must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Version 1.10
 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
   operate on directory trees.  This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
 
-* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.3 release.
+* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.4-T3B release.
 
 * The new function `malloc_find_object_address' finds the starting address
   of a malloc'd block, given any address within the block.  This can be
@@ -151,9 +151,18 @@ Version 1.10
 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
 
 * David Mosberger-Tang has ported the C library to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux).
+  Richard Henderson contributed the dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
 
 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
-  support multiple languages, for use with his new package GNU gettext.
+  support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
+  his new package GNU gettext.  Translation volunteers have contributed
+  catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
+
+* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
+  program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
+  creates.  (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
+  <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
+  programs already written to use it.)
 
 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
   constants.
@@ -192,6 +201,15 @@ Version 1.10
 
 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
   number of characters for the null terminator.
+
+* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
+
+* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
+  provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
+  strings.
+
+* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
+  and writing the utmp file.
 
 Version 1.09