X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=musl;a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=b0c319afae86305d0551d6d442995c539811dae6;hp=652176d8c2e508c1a8d456089a9b22925774dac2;hb=dd762cf6e5886ed297886a19a2e2ffd49157a786;hpb=53de960d6f12480a041b7b8cbf65cd1d3f3f9b23 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 652176d8..b0c319af 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -706,3 +706,77 @@ bug fixes: - extremely rare/obscure race condition with robust mutexes - crypt now never returns null (most programs don't check, then crash) - missing xattr remove functions + + + +0.9.5 release notes + +compatibility and headers: +- POSIX+XSI+BSD features enabled by default with no macros defined +- most programs can now be built without adding -D_GNU_SOURCE +- added C99 restrict keyword where required in all prototypes +- greater C89 compatibility +- cleaner, more-compatible public syscall.h +- many other header fixes +- support for compiling musl with clang/llvm + +new features: +- sha 256/512 password hash functions in crypt +- GNU hash support in dynamic linker +- partial C11 coverage +- dladdr function added +- dynamic linker reports all errors instead of exiting on first error +- syscall wrappers added for most remaining linux syscalls +- provide POSIX O_SEARCH open mode using linux O_PATH + +bug fixes: +- most atexit functions were being skipped when exiting +- some BSD functions were not being exposed under _BSD_SOURCE +- issues loading ssp-protected DSO into non-ssp program with dlopen + +debloating: +- eliminate .eh_frame (10-15% loaded size bloat) +- optimal inline syscall asm for ARM and MIPS +- no longer force -O3 for shared libs + + + +0.9.6 release notes + +bug fixes: +- serious breakage in definition of O_ACCMODE mask (missing a bit) + +new features: +- O_EXEC open mode +- md5 crypt hash function + + + +0.9.7 release notes + +new features: +- thread-local storage (__thread/_Thread_local) +- microblaze port +- getopt option parsing reset support +- vsyscall (sysenter, etc.) support on i386 (faster syscalls) +- memmem function (GNU extension) +- mips fenv support +- accept "nan(n-char-sequence)" in strtod/scanf family functions +- configure now supports compiling with pcc + +quality and correctness improvements: +- close-on-exec flag for all library-internal file descriptors +- cancellation-safety and corner-case overhaul in shm_open/sem_open +- close EINTR vs EINPROGRESS issue +- mark binaries as not requiring executable stack +- better gdb compatibility in dynamic linker +- support recursive dlopen (dlopen called from constructors) +- posix_spawn/system/popen no longer momentarily double commit charge +- all stdio functions wait for locks + +bug fixes: +- broken sysvipc *ctl functions on 64-bit archs +- broken shmdt on some archs +- getaddrinfo failure with port "0" +- dirname handling of trailing slash +- vfork race in posix_spawn