X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=WHATSNEW;h=327a7d11016a5d80af5c87710cc1bc24f73d93dd;hb=ebc87349fef4f460abc3991c58f38d76c309bc6b;hp=bfb45b8c24460dab316cc6ea7fa212f6976281e4;hpb=7bec92e793d4b8a349796848cf43c7329b0f2ed0;p=musl diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index bfb45b8c..327a7d11 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -915,3 +915,85 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed: - various low-impact type size/alignment mismatches in some headers - epoll struct alignment wrong on non-x86[_64] archs - broken pipe2 fallback code on mips with old kernels + + + +0.9.11 release notes + +new features: +- %m allocation modifier for scanf +- week number and ISO week-based-year functionality in strftime +- per-process and per-thread cputime clocks +- ethernet address conversion interfaces +- legacy classful ipv4 network address interfaces +- minimal dlinfo function (nonstandard) + +other improvements: +- dynamic linker path file can now use newlines to separate paths +- math optimizations for archs with extended precision (i386) +- musl-gcc wrapper now exposes gcc's intrinsic headers +- quality of rand and rand_r pseudo-random sequences +- support for large device minor numbers (greater than 8 bits) +- various header conformance and compatibility fixes + +directly user-visible bugs fixed: +- scanf losing characters on unbuffered streams and fmemopen streams +- failure of mbsrtowcs to record stop position when dest is full +- failure of iconv to convert to legacy codepages +- non-working pthread_[sg]etschedparam functions (wrong syscall arguments) + +other potentially-serious bugs fixed: +- resource leaks in sem_open +- various bugs in thread exit synchronization +- invalid access in aio notification after aiocb free/reuse +- synchronization in dynamic linker when new thread dlopens during ctors +- lack of error handling for failure to read dynamic linker path file +- creation by mmap or shmget of objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX + +minor conformance bugs fixed: +- overflow handling for the clock function +- workaround for incorrect exceptions in fma due to compiler bugs +- workaround wrong kernel type for sem_nsems field in struct semid_ds + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- x86_64 sigsetjmp clobbered the signal mask rather than saving it +- misaligned stack when calling ctors/dtors (crashing on x86_64) + + + +0.9.12 release notes + +new features: +- zoneinfo time zone support +- PIE support on all supported archs +- named sub-archs for endian and float ABI variants +- improved support for non-root installs of the dynamic linker +- ability to selectively build only performance-critical modules with -O3 +- simple buffer overflow detection in free/realloc +- inet_ntop now presents v4-mapped addresses in ::ffff:a.b.c.d form +- ldd now reports libc and the dynamic linker in its output + +compatibility: +- support for new init/fini array (needed for ctors/dtors on newer gcc) +- C++ ABI fully matches glibc/LSB, at least on x86 +- many added ABI compatibility symbols for using glibc-linked libs +- support for STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbol bindings (found in some C++ libs) +- macros/types for new Linux kernel features in headers + +bugs fixed: +- crashes in scanf on literal mismatches (regression from adding %m) +- dl_iterate_phdr was passing invalid phdr pointers to its callback +- getaddrinfo with null host and AF_UNSPEC was failing to report IPv6 +- integer overflows in date/time conversion code +- misinterpretation of pre-1930s dates as post-2038 on 32-bit archs +- make install failed to install bits headers if make was not run first +- shm_open was wrongly cancellable +- low- or no-impact heap corruption in memalign +- explicitly running the dynamic linker on PIE programs did not work +- missing macros and sysconf for some supported POSIX option groups +- missing close-on-exec flags for several internal fd uses + +arch-specific bugs: +- wrong SIG_ATOMIC_MIN/MAX macros on x86_64 +- erfcl was missing on archs where long double is same as double +- broken dynamic-model TLS in static-linked arm/mips/powerpc programs