[PATCH] aarch64: update NEWS for 2.43 release
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Tue Jan 13 13:21:40 GMT 2026
On 1/13/26 5:34 AM, Yury Khrustalev wrote:
> ---
> OK for release 2.43?
LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
> ---
> NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 0568441385..f5bd385bbc 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ Major new features:
> openat and provides a superset of its functionality. It is supported only
> in LFS mode and it is a cancellable entrypoint.
>
> +* On AArch64, support for 2MB transparent huge pages is enabled by default
> + in malloc (similar to setting glibc.malloc.hugetlb=1 tunable).
> +
> +* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
> + (SME), the clone() system call wrapper will disable the ZA state of SME.
> +
> +* On AArch64 targets supporting the Branch Target Identification (BTI)
> + extension, it is possible to enforce that all binaries in the process
> + support BTI using the glibc.cpu.aarch64_bti tunable.
> +
> +* On AArch64 Linux targets supporting at least one of the branch protection
> + extensions (e.g. Branch Target Identification or Guarded Control Stack), it
> + is possible to use LD_DEBUG=security to make dynamic linker show warning
> + messages about loaded binaries that do not support the corresponding
> + security feature.
> +
> Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>
> * Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
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