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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f73d3287c4..83b6a5e291 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,114 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2004-12-19 -Copyright (C) 1992-2002,2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-09-29 +Copyright (C) 1992-2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> using `glibc' in the "product" field. +Version 2.5 + +* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also + handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice. + +* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. + +* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate + option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results + of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some + site might have problems with the default behavior. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the + SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide + to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. + Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by + Ulrich Drepper. + +* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper. + +* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and + Ulrich Drepper. + +* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek. + +* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN, + or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME. + +Version 2.4 + +* More overflow detection functions. + +* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153, + IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba. + + More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097, + IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144, + IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517, + IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712, + IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed + by Masahide Washizawa. + +* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using + LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. + +* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no + longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels. + For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we + recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. + +* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream, + but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer. + +* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect. + +* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat, + futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, + renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. + +* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare, + inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch. + +* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess, + for compatibility with some other systems. + +* Timezone data updated to 2006b version. + +Version 2.3.6 + +* The following bugs are resolved with this release: + + 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961, + 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, + 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, + 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, + 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252, + 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534 + + Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. + +* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library. + +* Timezone data updated to 2005m version. + +Version 2.3.5 + +* The following bugs are resolved with this release: + + 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719, + 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, + 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776, + 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825 + + Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. + Version 2.3.4 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far. @@ -1484,7 +1588,8 @@ Version 1.04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 + Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the |