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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d648c45a63..95cddc7e7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,13 +26,17 @@ Version 2.2 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. -* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.2-5 which supports - threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger and Adam D. Bradley. +* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports + threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, + and Mark Kettenis. This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. + The reoslver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport + protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. + * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). |