release notes for next bugfix release

[musl] / WHATSNEW

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@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ implemented POSIX timers.
 
 optimized and simplified many thread-related functions.
 
-eliminated resource leak races in thread cancellation.
+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.
@@ -104,3 +105,41 @@ 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.
+