[COMMITTED] NEWS: add more major improvements for 2.40
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Sat Jul 20 14:23:46 GMT 2024
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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Further suggestions and corrections welcome...
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NEWS | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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:
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2.44.2
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