X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=musl;a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=cd1bd802c5e36473d6c3a0e8d3a05909b4a0dbe4;hp=d4b4a0f2a3aa10042356f50851819a7f9782dda5;hb=0913560a3ffd4572d926b4f9bed3dbf3e6a1b3f0;hpb=fc27b96c7d9b2c82679508a57ac998d773f14f08 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index d4b4a0f2..cd1bd802 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -79,3 +79,107 @@ 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. + + + +0.7.8 (pending release) - more bug fixes and compatibility improvements + +fixed problems with ipv6 dns and address printing code that made ipv6 +support practically unusable, and some other getaddrinfo bugs. + +fixed broken sendmsg/recvmsg functions on x86_64 (caused by incorrect +msghdr structure). + +fixed broken sigsetjmp asm on x86_64. + +worked around a problem with input buffering on terminals reblocking +after getting a blank line, due to a bug in the linux readv syscall. + +various improvements to the "rsyscall" system used to implement +threaded setuid, setgid, etc. + +exiting/cancelling the a timer handler thread no longer kills the +timer. + +fixed incorrect trailing zeros on some %g conversions in printf. + +fixed buggy byte-swapping functions and moved them to inlines in +byteswap.h. + +many small improvements to header/application compatibility, support +for nonstandard macros, etc.