X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=e1d01982a2ac66a25b64cb550e00e30df71a9822;hb=7be59733d71ada3a32a98622507399253f1d5e48;hp=f9879bd5f5626472150804e9cfcdff00014c6ea0;hpb=ea9525c8bcf6170df59364c4bcd616de1acf8703;p=musl diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index f9879bd5..e1d01982 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -2164,3 +2164,126 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed: - riscv64 atomics had broken asm constraints (missing earlyclobber flag) - arm clone() was broken when compiled as thumb if start function returned - mipsr6 setjmp/longjmp did not preserve fpu register state correctly + + + +1.2.0 release notes + +new features: +- time_t is now 64-bit on all archs (not just 64-bit archs) +- character type & case mapping data updated to Unicode 12.1.0 +- header-level support for new linux features in 5.3 and 5.4 + +performance: +- new O(1) wchar_t case mapping implementation +- i386 now uses C math code for exp, faster than old asm +- mips math asm + +compatibility & conformance: +- endian.h now aims to conform to future POSIX definition +- support older compilers that don't accept powerpc math asm constraints +- fdpic code in ldso was incompatible with valid optimizations in gcc 9+ +- RLIMIT_RTTIME was missing from sys/resource.h + +bugs fixed: +- wcwidth wrongly returned 0 for most of planes 4 and up +- missing case mapping between U+03F3 and U+037F +- wrong cacosh results for arguments with negative imaginary part +- wrong catanf/catanl results for various classes of arguments +- wrong return value for ungetc with argument outside [0,UCHAR_MAX] +- posix_openpt with no ptys available produced wrong errno + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- sigcontext/regset definition mistakes & omissions on m68k, powerpc64 +- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) crashed on riscv64 +- sh2 dynamic linker was broken since 1.1.21 (crash in stage 2b) +- arm dynamic linker chose wrong tls/atomic variants since 1.1.21 +- some math library functions returned excess precision on i386 +- unconfirmed regression in fchmodat AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW on mips* + + + +1.2.1 release notes + +major changes: +- new malloc implementation (mallocng & overhauled bump allocator) + +new features: +- DNS queries via res_* now set AD flag, report zone signedness (DNSSEC) +- PTHREAD_NULL macro (POSIX-future) + +performance: +- optimized memcpy and memset for aarch64 +- optimized memcpy for arm now supports big endian +- optimized x86_64 remquol +- improved strerror without linear search + +bugs fixed: +- lock-skipping for processes that returned to single-threaded was wrong +- AF_UNSPEC dns lookups mishandled single failure in paired A+AAAA +- res_send and res_query returned wrong value on errors from nameserver +- corrupted sysvipc timestamps on 32-bit archs with old kernels +- incorrect parsing of timezone offsets after overly-long zone name +- clock_adjtime was broken on 32-bit archs (time64) +- pthread_kill as not async-signal-safe +- pthread_cancel was not async-cancel-safe +- large-ulp errors in various math functions in non-default rounding modes + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- arm clock_gettime was broken on some hw due to bad time64 vdso +- m68k sqrtl lacked long double precision +- mips* syscall mechanism regressions on older kernels +- mips* had negated error codes for some syscalls (kernel bug) +- mips* SIGEMT was wrongly called SIGSTKFLT +- sh fesetround didn't work correctly on sh + + + +1.2.2 release notes + +major changes: +- child restrictions lifted after fork of multithreaded parent + +new features: +- _Fork function (POSIX-future) +- reallocarray function (extension from OpenBSD, now widespread) +- gettid function (kernel tid as supported concept) +- SIGEV_THREAD_ID sigevent API (Linux extension) +- tcgetwinsize and tcsetwinsize functions (POSIX-future) + +performance: +- faster software sqrt on archs without native sqrt instruction + +compatibility: +- realpath no longer depends on procfs availability & accuracy +- time zone parser now always prefers 64-bit tables if present +- crypt_blowfish now supports $2b$ prefix +- res_query now reports errors via h_errno +- set*id and setrlimit are now safe in vforked/cloned child +- setgroups now applies to all threads +- dlopen debugger notification is improved, should work with lldb +- setrlimit no longer needs __synccall broadcast on linux 2.6.36+ +- faccessat with AT_EACCESS no longer needs child process on linux 5.8+ + +bugs fixed: +- buffer overflow and infinite loop errors in wcsnrtombs (CVE-2020-28928) +- sem_close unmapped still-referenced semaphores +- fork of process with active aio could deadlock or crash paren +- pthread_cond_wait was broken with priority-inheritance mutex +- getgrouplist wrongly failed when nscd reported an empty list +- abort could leak modified SIGABRT disposition to fork or posix_spawn child +- regression with mallocng: malloc_usable_size(0) crashed +- readlink wrongly gave EINVAL on zero length dest buffer +- sqrtl was severely inaccurate (not correctly rounded) on ldquad archs +- assert failure wrongly flushed stdio (possible deadlock) +- MUSL_LOCPATH search was broken with multiple components +- missing newline in herror output +- possible deadlock in pthread_exit with pshared mutex or barrier usage +- pthread_mutexattr_getprotocol didn't read back protocol +- v4l2 ioctl translation for pre-time64 kernels didn't work + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- x86_64 longjmp failed to handle 0 argument reliably +- i386 __set_thread_area fallback for pre-2.6 kernels didn't work +- missing O_LARGEFILE macro value on x86_64, x32, mips64 +- unpredictable s390x breakage from failure to preserve call-saved registers