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| -rw-r--r-- | VERSION | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | WHATSNEW | 40 |
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION index 23aa8390..0495c4a8 100644 --- a/VERSION +++ b/VERSION @@ -1 +1 @@ -1.2.2 +1.2.3 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index e1d01982..f9bb2482 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -2287,3 +2287,43 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed: - i386 __set_thread_area fallback for pre-2.6 kernels didn't work - missing O_LARGEFILE macro value on x86_64, x32, mips64 - unpredictable s390x breakage from failure to preserve call-saved registers + + + +1.2.3 release notes + +new features: +- qsort_r function (POSIX-future) +- pthread_getname_np extension function +- hard float on SPE FPU for powerpc-sf +- SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE exposed in unistd.h (Linux extensions) + +compatibility: +- free now preserves errno (POSIX-future requirement) +- setjmp is declared explicitly with returns_twice for non-GCC compilers +- macro version of isascii is no longer defined for C++ +- dynamic linker now tolerates zero-length LOAD segments +- epoll_[p]wait is now a cancellation point +- pwd/grp functions no longer fail on systems without AF_UNIX support +- POSIX TZ parsing is stricter to allow more names to fallback to files +- NULL is now defined as nullptr when used in C++11 or later +- gettext now accepts null pointer as argument + +bugs fixed: +- old regression in wcwidth of Hangul combining (vowel/final) letters +- duplocale used wrong malloc when malloc was replaced (1.2.2 regression) +- fmaf rounded wrong on archs without FE_TOWARDZERO (all softfloat archs) +- popen didn't honor requirement not to leak other popen pipe fds to child +- aligned_alloc and variants crashed on allocation failure +- dl_iterate_phdr reported incorrect module TLS pointers +- mishandling of some inputs in acoshf and expm1f and functions using them +- potentially wrong-sign zero in cproj functions at infinity +- multiple bugs in legacy function cuserid +- minor posix_spawn file actions API conformance issues +- pthread_setname_np fd leak +- out-of-bound read in zoneinfo handling with distant-past times +- out-of-tree builds lacked generated debug cfi for x86 asm + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- powerpc (32-bit) struct shmid_ds layout was wrong for some fields +- time64 struct layout was wrong in sound ioctl fallback (32-bit archs) |