X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=musl;a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=e78ce1e4772bccfef2e95c402ca46224703406a0;hp=cd1bd802c5e36473d6c3a0e8d3a05909b4a0dbe4;hb=f6fd351c703a2843959b3be83078d9dce33f30f3;hpb=0913560a3ffd4572d926b4f9bed3dbf3e6a1b3f0 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index cd1bd802..e78ce1e4 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ proportion of busybox that works with musl. -0.7.8 (pending release) - more bug fixes and compatibility improvements +0.7.8 - 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. @@ -183,3 +183,86 @@ byteswap.h. many small improvements to header/application compatibility, support for nonstandard macros, etc. + + + +0.7.9 release notes + +new pthread cancellation implementation: +- safe against resource-leak/side-effect-leak race conditions +- safe against interruption by signal handlers +- reduced bloat in all cancellable functions +- reduced bloat for blocking cancellation + +new interfaces implemented: +- realpath (limited functionality) +- wordexp (limited functionality) +- flock (nonstandard) +- forkpty (nonstandard) +- posix_fadvise +- posix_fallocate + +general bug fixes: +- syslog function failure to communicate with syslogd +- bug in siginfo_t definition if wait.h was included before signal.h +- incorrect struct definitions for most of sysv ipc +- pthread_exit/cancel on timer handler wrongly destroying the timer +- linux dup2 ebusy workaround +- obscure issues in non-threaded programs using some pthread functions +- getopt_long allowed mismatch in last char of option name +- incorrect parsing of obscure ip address forms +- initgroups not working reliably (uninitialized var) +- shadow pass treating empty expiry field as pass-expired-in-1970 +- bogus longjmp if pthread_exit was called from cancellation handlers + +x86_64-specific bug fixes: +- fcntl file locking +- thread stack alignment +- broken select timeouts due to incorrect timeval definition + + + +0.7.10 release notes + +new features: +- ipv6 numeric string parsing +- eventfd syscall wrappers + +optimizations: +- new qsort implementation using the smoothsort algorithm +- much smaller/faster sigset_t handling functions +- lowered spin count before futex wait in synchronization functions + +general bug fixes: +- incorrect floating point round-to-even behavior in printf +- major bugs in pthread barrier implementation +- off-by-one error in scanf %n results +- scanf failure to report EOF when scanning for literal text +- minor missing/incorrect prototype issues +- dependency on undefined call order in fclose + +compiler issue workarounds: +- incorrect inlining of variadic functions on recent gcc versions +- pcc preprocessor bug with recursive macro expansion + + + +0.7.11 release notes + +new features: +- integrated dynamic linker +- dynamic loading (dlopen/dlsym) (for dynamic-linked programs only) +- XSI search.h API +- POSIX message queues +- POSIX spawn interfaces +- BSD pseudo-random number generator API (random/srandom/initstate/etc.) +- floating point environment (limited usefulness due to gcc bugs) + +general bug fixes: +- possible crashes with wordexp due to uninitialized variable +- race condition in pthread_kill (also present and unfixed in glibc/nptl) +- pthread exit destructors called too late +- dangerous unbounded vla in glob +- brk/sbrk legacy functions mismatching legacy semantics +- wcsncpy dest buffer overflow +- strncat and wcsncat possible overflows due to double-termination