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diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 969f51d2..2336a34f 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -390,3 +390,38 @@ bug fixes: security: - avoid fd_set overflow in dns lookups + + + +0.8.5 release notes + +new features: +- stdio operations are now cancellable (only when low-level io happens) +- global ctor/dtor support in main program start code and shared libs +- dynamic linker support for PIE executables (but missing startup code) +- vfork support on x86_64 +- complete set of locale_t functions (all ignore the locale argument) +- provide define float_t and double_t in math.h +- lighter/faster cancellation cleanup handler register/unregister + +bug fixes: +- gcc wrapper now supports -shared, -nostdlib, -nostartfiles +- removed one wrongly-classified character from iswspace set (zwsp) +- fixed crashes in dns lookup on some errors, e.g. resolv.conf missing +- "make install" no longer tries to build shared libc if disabled +- ptrace argument handling bugs fixed +- work around visibility-hidden bugs in gcc 3.x +- fix thread-pointer-loss issue when it's initialized in signal handlers +- various minor typo/misc fixes in headers + +compatibility: +- glob behaves more like traditional implementations w.r.t. GLOB_MARK +- added legacy futimes, lutimes functions +- more compatibility macros in sys/param.h (nonstandard header) +- setfs[ug]id syscall wrappers (linux specific) +- fgetpwent function (nonstandard) +- utmp.h matches traditional version more closely +- caddr_t now matches glibc type (void * instead of long) +- dummy (always-fail) dlopen and dlsym functions for static linked programs +- [efg]cvt functions (previously posix, removed from standard) +- get_current_dir_name function (nonstandard) |