[PATCH 6/6] Add NEWS item for gconv-modules.d change

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@sourceware.org
Thu Jun 10 11:18:53 GMT 2021


---
 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1bf3daa502..605d53b256 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ Major new features:
   __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
   defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
 
+* Configuration files for iconv converter modules have moved from the single
+  gconv-modules file to a directory gconv-modules.d containing multiple
+  configuration files with names ending with .conf.  The configuration parser
+  continues to also support parsing the gconv-modules file in $GCONV_PATH for
+  backward compatibility.
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
-- 
2.31.1



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