[PATCH, COMMITTED] NEWS: Collect some more newsworthy items

Andreas K. Hüttel dilfridge@gentoo.org
Fri Jul 25 21:39:58 GMT 2025


Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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Here are some more items from the last development cycle that I found
worth mentioning. Committed, but feedback and corrections are of course
welcome.
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 NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c99e9d26ef..19cd294d6e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,22 @@ Major new features:
   information format which can be used by backtrace.  It requires
   binutils with a minimum version of 2.45.
 
+* Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the
+  MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create.
+
+* Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
+  been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif,
+  asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif.
+
+* The testsuite has been significantly extended to cover the
+  functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many
+  variants.
+
+* Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther
+  Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures.
+
+* Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added.
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to
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2.49.1



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