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@@ -780,3 +780,220 @@ bug fixes:
 - getaddrinfo failure with port "0"
 - dirname handling of trailing slash
 - vfork race in posix_spawn
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+
+
+0.9.8 release notes
+
+new features:
+- powerpc port
+- dl_iterate_phdr interface
+- added mips-specific syscalls
+- thread priority scheduling
+- C11 CMPLX macro in complex.h
+- x86 port io functions in sys/io.h
+
+compatibility:
+- improved headers for trace/debugging/machine-access
+- stub functions for unsupported thread-related functionality
+
+bug fixes:
+- numerous math bugs (mostly exception flags and excess-precision issues)
+- register clobber error in i386 vsyscall asm (did not affect most callers)
+- various incorrect definitions in mips headers
+- broken dlsym asm on mips
+- empty prefix handling in configure script (--prefix="")
+- ldso search path logic issues
+- lock handling for stdio memory streams at exit time
+- invalid SO_REUSEPORT definition in socket.h (not supported by Linux)
+- broken redirection attempt to /dev/null in configure script
+
+
+
+0.9.9 release notes
+
+new features:
+- tgamma implementation (no longer lgamma wrapper with low precision)
+- various gnu extensions: sigandset, sigorset, etc.
+- futimesat function (obsolete)
+- various linux syscalls: arch_prctl, personality, etc.
+
+optimizations:
+- hyperbolic, inverse hyperbolic, and inverse trig, bessel functions
+- is* comparison macros in math.h now expand inline properly
+
+library bugs fixed:
+- calling getenv from shared library ctors was broken
+- invalid read in mmap-serviced aligned_alloc/memalign (possible crash)
+- wrong errno result in fallback path of pipe2 
+- various math functions raising spurious exceptions
+- mmap errno value on invalid offsets
+- backwards alignment logic in strlcpy
+- integer overflows in bessel functions
+- large (up to 60ulp) error in erfcf
+- dlsym/dlclose crashing on invalid library handles
+- failure to handle arch variations for cloexec/nonblock flags
+- lio_listio wrong return value for LIO_WAIT mode
+- dladdr failure to resolve PLT addresses
+- time_t/struct tm conversion off-by-one-day in december
+- malloc corruption on nonstandard kernels with non-page-aligned brk
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- arm ctors/dtors were not working with recent gcc versions
+- arm and mips setjmp/longjmp wrongly saved/restored fenv state
+- loss of precision in i386/x86_64 expl
+
+header bugs fixed:
+- incorrect PRI/SCN macros in inttypes.h for some types
+- arm sys/user.h regressions
+- failure of offsetof() to be an integer constant expression
+- tgmath return value type problems
+
+header compatibility improvements:
+- _GNU_SOURCE now enables everything; _ALL_SOURCE also works
+- scsi/scsi.h and scsi/sg.h are now provided
+- additional MAP_* flags for mmap
+- additional F_* commands and flags for fcntl
+- additional socket option, IPPROTO_* values, and multicase macros
+- thread-related waitpid flags
+- EHWPOISON added to errno.h
+- additional macros for mount, swap, and reboot operations
+- expose additional link.h structures
+- always ensure sizeof(NULL)==sizeof(void *), even in c++
+- additional flags for poll, epoll, inotify, timerfd, timex, dlfcn
+- register names in signal.h/ucontext.h for x86
+- ipc.h ipc_perm nonstandard struct field name compatibility improve
+
+
+
+0.9.10 release notes
+
+new features:
+- getifaddrs 
+- pthread_getattr_np (widely used by garbage collectors)
+- mkostemps, mkostemp, mkstemps functions (mkostemp is future-POSIX)
+- strcasestr and strverscmp (previously stubs)
+
+improvements:
+- major performance improvements in mbtowc
+- avoid filling caller-provided thread stacks with large TLS
+- debloat unnecessary static buffers
+- robust posix_spawn based on CLONE_VM instead of vfork
+- new system() and popen() based on posix_spawn
+- better strerror strings
+- further emulation of atomic close-on-exec/nonblock options for old kernels
+- provide macro constants for new-ish kernel features
+
+compatibility:
+- several nonstandard but widely-available pwd/grp/shadow functions
+- program_invocation_[short_]name
+- re-added useconds_t type used by some programs
+- some legacy arpa headers
+- dn_skipname function (legacy resolver API)
+- additional ABI aliases for supporting glibc-linked libraries/binaries
+
+general bugs fixed:
+- stale locks and bogus munmap call when pthread_create fails
+- uninitialized argument to munmap when dynlink load_library fails
+- incorrect error returns in gethostby*_r
+- memory leak in gethostbyname family
+- blank ai_canonname in getaddrinfo for non-CNAME records
+- undefined HZ macro in scsi/sg.h
+- wrong return value for wmemmove on forward-copy
+- namespace conformance in strings.h
+- various utmp.h bugs
+- unnecessary DT_SONAME in libc.so caused problems on some systems
+- multiple bugs in syslog, some possibly dangerous
+- non-functional setpriority function
+- slight mishandling of 0xf5 byte in UTF-8 decoder
+- misaligned memory accesses in mbsrtowcs
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- crash in shared library loading on arm
+- missing __aeabi_atexit needed by arm eabi
+- wrong float_t definition on x86_64
+- 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