X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=musl;a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=bfb45b8c24460dab316cc6ea7fa212f6976281e4;hp=6aca38803980250e1bc3b5a0b8c792acf725dbb4;hb=ef5507867b59d19f21437970e87b5d0415c07b2e;hpb=a57ac9bf64ba202bd94d1b81bddd93b850c7b9d6 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 6aca3880..bfb45b8c 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -863,3 +863,55 @@ header compatibility improvements: - additional flags for poll, epoll, inotify, timerfd, timex, dlfcn - register names in signal.h/ucontext.h for x86 - ipc.h ipc_perm nonstandard struct field name compatibility improve + + + +0.9.10 release notes + +new features: +- getifaddrs +- pthread_getattr_np (widely used by garbage collectors) +- mkostemps, mkostemp, mkstemps functions (mkostemp is future-POSIX) +- strcasestr and strverscmp (previously stubs) + +improvements: +- major performance improvements in mbtowc +- avoid filling caller-provided thread stacks with large TLS +- debloat unnecessary static buffers +- robust posix_spawn based on CLONE_VM instead of vfork +- new system() and popen() based on posix_spawn +- better strerror strings +- further emulation of atomic close-on-exec/nonblock options for old kernels +- provide macro constants for new-ish kernel features + +compatibility: +- several nonstandard but widely-available pwd/grp/shadow functions +- program_invocation_[short_]name +- re-added useconds_t type used by some programs +- some legacy arpa headers +- dn_skipname function (legacy resolver API) +- additional ABI aliases for supporting glibc-linked libraries/binaries + +general bugs fixed: +- stale locks and bogus munmap call when pthread_create fails +- uninitialized argument to munmap when dynlink load_library fails +- incorrect error returns in gethostby*_r +- memory leak in gethostbyname family +- blank ai_canonname in getaddrinfo for non-CNAME records +- undefined HZ macro in scsi/sg.h +- wrong return value for wmemmove on forward-copy +- namespace conformance in strings.h +- various utmp.h bugs +- unnecessary DT_SONAME in libc.so caused problems on some systems +- multiple bugs in syslog, some possibly dangerous +- non-functional setpriority function +- slight mishandling of 0xf5 byte in UTF-8 decoder +- misaligned memory accesses in mbsrtowcs + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- crash in shared library loading on arm +- missing __aeabi_atexit needed by arm eabi +- wrong float_t definition on x86_64 +- various low-impact type size/alignment mismatches in some headers +- epoll struct alignment wrong on non-x86[_64] archs +- broken pipe2 fallback code on mips with old kernels