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diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index d422df42..5600991c 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -282,3 +282,46 @@ bug fixes: - workaround for bugs in linux mprotect syscall - thread-safety for random() functions - various minor issues + + + +0.8.0 release notes (in progress) + +new features: +- chinese and japanese legacy charset support in iconv +- zero-syscall clock_gettime support (dynamic-linked x86_64 only) +- futex-based locking for stdio (previously used spinlocks) +- LD_PRELOAD and RTLD_NEXT support in dynamic linker +- strptime (mostly working but incomplete) +- posix aio (mostly working but not entirely conformant) +- memory streams (fmemopen, open_memstream, ...) +- stub/dummy implementations for various useless legacy functions +- if_nameindex + +security hardening: +- setuid, etc. should not longer be able to "partially fail" with threads +- ensure suid programs start with fd 0,1,2 open +- improved openpty/forkpty failure checks + +threads/synchronization bug fixes: +- dangerous spurious wakeup in pthread_join lead to early return +- race condition enabling async cancellation (delayed/lost cancellation) +- destruction/unmapping race conditions in semaphores, mutexes, rwlocks +- recursive rwlock_rdlock deadlock when a writer is waiting +- race condition in sigqueue with fork +- timer expiration thread exit wasn't running dtors +- timer threads weren't blocking signals +- close was wrongly cancellable after succeeding on some devices +- robust mutex list was not reset on fork + +general bug fixes: +- incorrect logic in fread (spurious blocking; crash on write-only files) +- many corner cases and overflow cases for strtol-family functions +- various printf integer formatting issues with flags/width/precision +- incorrect iconv return value on failure +- broken FD_* macros on 64-bit targets +- clock function returning wrong value (real time not cpu time) +- siglongjmp signal mask clobbering (off-by-one pointer error) +- dynamic linker weak symbol resolution issues +- fdopendir failure to set errno +- various minor header fixes |