X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=44ebd72358e696887ba347c211e98edfd6472f0e;hb=a113434cd68ce30642c4995b1caadcd084be6f09;hp=d4b4a0f2a3aa10042356f50851819a7f9782dda5;hpb=fc27b96c7d9b2c82679508a57ac998d773f14f08;p=musl diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index d4b4a0f2..44ebd723 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -79,3 +79,69 @@ implemented flockfile, wprintf, and robust mutex functions. fixed stack corruption bug in times(), minor header bugs, and some error return value bugs in thread interfaces. + + + +0.7.5 - new features, major optimization, and robustness + +implemented POSIX timers. + +optimized and simplified many thread-related functions. + +eliminated resource leak races in thread cancellation. (almost all +existing implementations, including glibc, have these leaks.) + +overhauled stdio implementation to take advantage of readv/writev for +reduced syscall load, and improved stdio's handling of error status. + +added syscall header and interface for applications to use and +greatly simplified internal system for making syscalls. + +strangthened tmpnam/tempnam/tmpfile filename generation and made the +straight C functions not depend on POSIX symbols. + +fixed pthread cancellation ABI on i386 to match the LSB/glibc ABI + +better double-free handling in malloc + +various minor bug fixes + + + +0.7.6 - major bug fixes + +fixed rare but serious under-allocation bug in malloc. + +fixed signedness bug in strchr that prevented finding high bytes. + +fixed serious parsing bugs in strtold. + +fixed statvfs syscall (it was always failing with EINVAL). + +fixed race condition in set*id() functions with threads (possible +deadlock). further audit still needed though. + +fseek no longer sets the stream error flag on failed seeks (this was +wrong and broke some programs, notably GNU m4). + +nl_langinfo is no longer a dummy function. (the functionality was +previously implemented but accidentally left unused). + +various small fixes have been made to the implementations and +prototypes for nonstandard and obsolete functions + + + +next release - more bug fixes + +fixed floating point formatting and rounding bugs in printf. + +fixed broken %N$ positional argument specifiers in printf. + +fixed misaligned read/overread bug in strchr which could lead to +crashes scanning tiny strings at the end of a page when the next page +is not readable, or on archs (not yet supported) that forbid +misaligned reads. + +added many compatibility and system-level interfaces, increasing the +proportion of busybox that works with musl.