X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=musl;a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=a33476b413ca3aec2c237ef074cb402b8a4eece8;hp=519b77871a992f4db0320a9cd577c9a0f2d0f490;hb=d4fbebe18d2d063069b1505d357a1ff3b5ca0ab8;hpb=9f50b77d2ba154ba0d8cbccea94af1f7b902fd1a diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 519b7787..a33476b4 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -70,3 +70,87 @@ improved musl-gcc compiler wrapper. implemented many small missing functions here and there, minor header fixes, etc. + + + +0.7.1 - improvements to completeness, bug fixes + +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 + + + +0.7.7 - more bug fixes and program-compatibility improvements + +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. + +fixed breakage of statvfs on x86_64 + +fixed crash in getmntent_r + +fixed bug in POSIX timers created with NULL sigevent argument + +improved semaphore performance, and sem_wait is now interruptable by +signals, as required by POSIX. + +added many compatibility and system-level interfaces, increasing the +proportion of busybox that works with musl.