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| -rw-r--r-- | VERSION | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | WHATSNEW | 60 |
2 files changed, 61 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION index 6d44d227..5d11b147 100644 --- a/VERSION +++ b/VERSION @@ -1 +1 @@ -0.9.14 +0.9.15 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index a51aeb5f..49289616 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -1082,3 +1082,63 @@ other improvements: - wait.h as a compatibility alias for sys/wait.h - various header improvements - support for runtime-variable page size on archs that need it (mainly mips) + + + +0.9.15 release notes + +new features: +- support for mixing IPv4 and v6 nameserver addresses in resolv.conf +- RFC 3678 multicast structures/macros in netinet/in.h +- putspent and fgetspent functions (shadow password API) +- timef function (obsolete, removed in POSIX 2008) +- fanotify syscalls (Linux-specific feature) +- semtimedop syscall (Linux-specific sysvipc extension) +- quotactl syscall and header (filesystem quotas support) +- drem and finite functions (obsolete BSD functions) +- getloadavg function (non-standard) +- herror function (non-standard and obsolete) +- libc.so now stores and prints its version information +- expose constants for new Linux features including O_TMPFILE +- implement FNM_LEADING_DIR option to fnmatch (GNU extension) +- posix_close function (accepted for inclusion in next POSIX issue) + +bugs fixed: +- buffer overflow in mbsrtowcs +- clobbering of gr_name in getgrnam_r and getgrgid_r +- execle ignoring the environment argument +- setenv crash on malloc failure +- out-of-bounds access in fnmatch with FNM_PATHNAME and certain patterns +- failure of malloc to set errno when failing to extend heap +- incorrect errno value from getcwd with zero size +- spurious failure in faccessat with AT_EACCESS flag with suid/sgid programs +- several fd leaks due to missing close-on-exec flag +- misspellings/typos in macro names in several headers +- incorrect failure return value in inet_pton +- various numeric ip address parsing and validation fixes +- namespace conformance issues in several headers +- minor header issues +- zombie processes left by faccessat with AT_EACCESS +- timezone file parser failing/crashing on 64-bit archs +- hang in localtime with near-overflowing time_t values on 64-bit archs +- timezone path search was only trying first path +- incorrect handling of excessive-length TZ environment strings +- timezone file loading was wrongly enforcing O_NOFOLLOW/rejecting symlinks +- iswspace was wrongly returning true for the null character +- various bugs in wordexp +- putgrent could write corrupt lines after write failures +- dn_expand misinterpreted in-packet offsets greater than 255 +- spurious strftime/wcsftime failure on len+1==bufsize case +- incorrect underflow flag in fma corner cases +- log*(0) wrongly returned +inf in downward-rounding mode +- failure of fchmod, fstat, fchdir, and fchown to produce EBADF + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- i386: failure of fesetround to set sse rounding mode +- i386: floating point limit constants misinterpreted due to excess precision +- powerpc: broken thread pointer access when compiled with clang +- microblaze: dynamic linker entry point code possibly clobbering argv + +strict conformance issues: +- NULL definition re-aligned with POSIX (requires (void *) cast) +- alignment of math.h is* comparison functions with C11 annex F requirements |