2.10 done

Alfred M. Szmidt ams@gnu.org
Mon May 11 14:28:00 GMT 2009


   > As previously announced, I've bumped the version and tagged the
   > tree for the 2.10 release.  A few last minute changes (and
   > corrections for them) went in but overall the tree has been
   > stable for about two weeks.
   > 
   > The user-visible changes include:

     distributors that turned off the parallel IPv4-IPv6 lookup when
   including glibc-2.9 (I would say probably majority of them) might want
   to add a bullet-point omitted from NEWS (Ulrich might want to still add
   it too) about the most prominent issue with glibc-2.9, also covered on
   Ulrich's weblog:

     * DNS IPv4-IPv6 lookup changed back to parallel version; with
       broken DNS servers (the case e.g. for many ADSL users), you may
       experience long timeouts, once for each process (but eventually
       your request will be resolved) - the solution is to run nscd or
       put 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.

     (I will prepare a resolv.conf(5) patch soon, too.)

Could you prepare a patch for the offical documentation of glibc as
well?  Otherwise, users will not find this information.



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