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glibc 2.14


I've tagged the tree for the 2.14 release.  Quite a lot of changes
went into the tree in the last weeks but I hope the result is still
stable.  The list of user visible changes includes:

Version 2.14

* The following bugs are resolved with this release:

  386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
  11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
  11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11869, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
  11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
  12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
  12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
  12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
  12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
  12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
  12795, 12811, 12813, 12814

* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted.  Old programs keep working
  but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
  Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
  The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.

  Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
  programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
  removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
  syncfs, setns, sendmmsg

* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
  yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU

* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774

* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
  from the default implementation in the next version.  The design never
  worked ever since the introduction of threads.  Even programs which do
  not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.


Thanks to the following for patches:

Aharon Robbins
Alan Modra
Andreas Krebbel
Andreas Schwab
Bruno Haible
Emil Wojak
Eric Blake
Filipe David Manana
H.J. Lu
Harsha Jagasia
Jakub Jelinek
Jiri Olsa
Jonathan Nieder
Kevin Bortis
Maciej Babinski
Martin von Gagern
Mike Frysinger
Nathan Sidwell
Paul Pluzhnikov
Petr Baudis
Piotr Bury
pravin.d.s@gmail.com
Reuben Thomas
Richard Sandiford
Roland McGrath
Ryan S. Arnold
Samuel Thibault


I expect that the 2.15 tree will be open very soon.  The release will
be, as usual, in about 6 months.


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