From: Andreas K. Hüttel Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 14:22:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: NEWS: add more major improvements for 2.40 X-Git-Tag: glibc-2.40~10 X-Git-Url: https://sourceware.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa455c3b5de21ee59b3e997f3b3f6ef3090e862a;p=glibc.git NEWS: add more major improvements for 2.40 Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3824815917..282243f75c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -30,13 +30,23 @@ Major new features: - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1. -* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, used to run a program +* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to be a security feature. -* On Linux, update epoll header to include epoll ioctl definitions and - related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9. +* On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions + and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9. + +* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building + programs with clang against the GNU C Library. + +* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64: + acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh + +* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance + of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable + x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: