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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5083f5eacf..65e9999cc3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ Major new features: Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: +* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built + as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis" + and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't + installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs + that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement + implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are + available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not + affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl + since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS. + * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it), @@ -115,11 +125,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe. -* The "files", "nis" and "nisplus" NSS modules no longer supports the - "key" database (used for secure RPC). The contents of the - /etc/publickey file will be ignored, regardless of the settings in - /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of storing RPC keys only supported - the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES flavor of secure RPC.) +* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for + secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored, + regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of + storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES + flavor of secure RPC.) Changes to build and runtime requirements: |