-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2003-3-15
-Copyright (C) 1992-2002,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2007-4-25
+Copyright (C) 1992-2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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+Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
+using `glibc' in the "product" field.
+\f
+Version 2.6
+
+* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
+
+* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
+
+* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+\f
+Version 2.5
+
+* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
+ handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
+
+* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
+
+* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
+ option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
+ of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
+ site might have problems with the default behavior.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
+ SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
+ to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
+ Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
+ Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
+
+* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
+ or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
+\f
+Version 2.4
+
+* More overflow detection functions.
+
+* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
+ IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
+
+ More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
+ IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
+ IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
+ IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
+ IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
+ by Masahide Washizawa.
+
+* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
+ LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
+ longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
+ For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
+ recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
+
+* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
+ but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
+
+* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
+
+* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
+ futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
+ renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
+
+* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
+ inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
+
+* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
+ for compatibility with some other systems.
+
+* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
+\f
+Version 2.3.6
+
+* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
+
+ 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
+ 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
+ 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
+ 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
+ 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
+ 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
+
+ Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
+
+* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
+
+* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
+\f
+Version 2.3.5
+
+* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
+
+ 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
+ 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
+ 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
+ 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
+
+ Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
+\f
+Version 2.3.4
+
+* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
+ For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
+ Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
+
+* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
+ efficiently.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
+ compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
+ handling data.
+
+* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
+ it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
+ the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
+ lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
+ namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
+ like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
+ linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
+ were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
+ Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
+ Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
+ have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
+ the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
+ These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
+ that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
\f
Version 2.3.3
* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
+
+* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
+ Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
+
+* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
+ Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
+ by Roland McGrath.
+
+* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
+ and Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
+ RFC 3484.
\f
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