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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3956263b0e..1179f92b52 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ Version 2.22 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl). Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google). + +* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future + release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning. + Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead. + + This header was formerly part of SUSv2, but was deprecated in 1997 and + removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation + leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details. Version 2.21 |