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| -rw-r--r-- | VERSION | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | WHATSNEW | 69 |
2 files changed, 70 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION index 0495c4a8..e8ea05db 100644 --- a/VERSION +++ b/VERSION @@ -1 +1 @@ -1.2.3 +1.2.4 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index f9bb2482..c5c8c9f4 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -2327,3 +2327,72 @@ bugs fixed: 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) + + + +1.2.4 release notes + +new features: +- large dns record lookups via tcp fallback +- new getaddrinfo EAI_NODATA result to distinguish NODATA/NxDomain +- support for new RELR compressed format for relative relocations +- sysconf keys for querying signal stack size requirements +- real vfork on riscv64 + +performance: +- mallocng no longer uses MADV_FREE (high performance cost, little gain) +- vdso clock_gettime is supported once again on 32-bit arm + +compatibility: +- gethostbyname family now distinguishes NO_DATA from HOST_NOT_FOUND +- res_send now works with caller-provided edns0 queries +- arpa/nameser.h RR types list is now up-to-date +- previously-missing POSIX confstr keys have been added +- mntent interfaces now accept missing fields +- alt signal stack, if any, is now used for internal signals +- the LFS64 macros are no longer exposed without _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE +- memmem (POSIX-future) is now exposed in default feature profile +- pthread_atfork now admits calls from an application-provided malloc +- debugger tracking of shared libraries now works on MIPS PIE binaries +- sendmsg now supports up to SCM_MAX_FD fds in SCM_RIGHTS messages + +bugs fixed: +- gethostbyname[2]_r wrongly returned nonzero (error) on negative result +- parallel v4/v6 address queries could fail on query id collisions +- spurious getaddrinfo/AI_ADDRCONFIG failures due to errno clobbering +- dns search domains ending in dot (including lone dot) broke lookups +- ipv6 servers in resolv.conf broke lookups on systems with v6 disabled +- systems with bindv6only failed to query both v4 and v6 nameservers +- res_mkquery mishandled consecutive final dots in name +- res_send could malfunction for very small answer buffer sizes +- resolver dns backend accepted answers with wrong (A vs AAAA) RR type +- getservbyport_r returned junk or ENOENT (vs ERANGE) on buffer size errors +- dns result parsing of malformed responses could process uninitialized data +- freopen didn't reset stream orientation (byte/wide) & encoding rule +- fwprintf didn't print most fields on open_wmemstream FILEs +- wide printf %lc ignored field width +- wide printf erroneously processed %n after encoding errors +- use of wide printf %9$ argument slot overflowed undersized buffer +- swprintf malfunctioned on nul character in output +- strverscmp ordered digit sequences vs nondigits incorrectly +- timer_create/SIGEV_THREAD failure leaked the thread +- semaphores were subject to missed-wake under certain usage patterns +- several possible rare deadlocks with lock handling at thread exit +- several possible rare deadlocks with aio and multithreaded fork +- dynamic linker relro processing was broken on archs w/variable pagesize +- async cancellation could run cancellation handlers in invalid context +- pthread_detach was wrongly a cancellation point in rare race code path +- use-after-close/double-close errors in mq_notify error paths +- mq_notify event thread wrongly ran with signals unmasked +- wcs{,n}cmp, wmemcmp returned wrong results when difference overflowed +- accept4, pipe2, and dup3 handled unknown flags wrong in fallback cases +- CPU_SETSIZE macro had wrong unit +- select fallback for pre-time64 kernels truncated timeout (vs clamping) + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- x32 new socketcalls took fallback path due to pointer sign extension +- x32 wait4 didn't fill rusage structure (time64 regression) +- x32 semtimedop mismatched timespec ABI with kernel (time64 regression) +- sigaction signal mask was bogus on or1k, microblaze, mips, and riscv +- powerpc-sf longjmp asm clobbered value argument +- or1k poll function passed timeout to syscall in wrong form |