X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=c40850b41872dc5db662fa408cd5992ee74cc4ed;hb=8dba5486288e719ed290cccefcd932ed32756d7c;hp=8442ee7513aa6fafd432f80e25747c4ec82611f4;hpb=6688a778b0419eab32e715f269319248edee9da5;p=musl diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 8442ee75..c40850b4 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -958,3 +958,97 @@ minor conformance bugs fixed: 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 + + + +0.9.13 release notes + +new features: +- iconv support for EUC-KR and Big5 (including HKSCS) encodings +- field widths (POSIX 2008 feature) in strftime +- recursive rpath and $ORIGIN support in dynamic linker +- cpu affinity interfaces +- support for armhf (hardfloat) floating point environment (fenv) +- support for SSE fenv on i386 (for apps using -mfpmath=sse -msse2) +- strftime %s format (seconds since the epoch, future POSIX requirement) +- configure script now saves its command line as a comment in config.mak +- legacy functions valloc and euidaccess + +performance: +- optimized asm memcpy for arm +- optimized asm memset for i386 and x86_64 +- optimized C versions of memcpy and memset for all archs +- eliminated major spurious syscalls from posix_spawn +- some math asm for armhf (hardfloat) + +workarounds for: +- qemu-user's rt_sigaction syscall does not allow old to alias new +- qemu-user's madvise always succeeds (broke pthread_getattr_np) +- passing PT_INTERP to dlopen attempted to double-load libc +- gcc 4.8.x generating self-referential (infinite recursion) memcpy/memset +- linux's lack of support for fchdir, fchmod, fchown, fstat on O_PATH fds + +bugs fixed: +- failure to honor flags for fchmodat and faccessat (linux syscall api flaws) +- SIGEV_THREAD timer id corruption and race condition issues +- timer thread TLS incorrectly keeping values from previous expiry run +- ecvt/fcvt decimal position off-by-one +- in symbol-versioned libs, symbol resolved to oldest instead of newest +- posix_spawn not correctly reporting errno from exec failure +- "make install" was not atomic (overwrote files rather than replacing) +- integer overflows in strftime +- unset/empty TZ variable was mishandled +- strftime could crash if the struct tm did not have valid tm_zone field +- failure of fenv functions to handle invalid arguments (required by ISO C) +- failure of some math functions (C and i386 asm) to raise underflow flag +- broken dn_expand function (previously not used internally) +- race conditions with signals during fork +- incorrect access check in mktemp (obsolete function) +- unnecessary arbitrary limits on size of program headers in dynamic loader +- text formatting bugs in output of err.h functions + +arch-specific bugs: +- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) crashed on i386 +- breakage of arm crt code when libc is compiled as thumb +- arm/armhf (hardfloat) misidentified by configure +- ambiguity of wait (exit status) macros on mips with signal number 127 +- wrong value of _NSIG and SIGRTMAX on mips