[PATCH] NEWS: mention more recent developments

Andreas K. Hüttel dilfridge@gentoo.org
Mon Jul 20 08:23:32 GMT 2026


Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
---
 NEWS | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ed83b27356..30637df766 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Version 2.44
 
 Major new features:
 
+* Support for reading system-wide tunables from /etc/tunables.conf has
+  been added.
+
 * A new tunable, glibc.elf.thp, is added to map read-only segments with
   Transparent Huge Pages (THP) if THP is not disabled in the kernel.  When
   glibc.elf.thp is set to 1, malloc uses the actual kernel THP mode
@@ -22,10 +25,13 @@ Major new features:
   been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular cosh, sinh, and
   tanh.
 
-* The SVID handling for cosh and sinh were moved to compat symbols, allowing
-  improvements in performance.
+* Many additional improvements to existing functions have been synchronized
+  from the CORE-MATH project.
 
-* New locale added: hrx_BR (Hunsrik language spoken in Brazil).
+* assert is now supported as a variadic macro for C++26.
+
+* The SVID handling for cosh and sinh was moved to compat symbols, allowing
+  improvements in performance.
 
 * Static PIE is now supported for arm-*-linux-gnueabi.  It requires toolchain
   support to correctly set the expected linker options.
@@ -37,8 +43,24 @@ Major new features:
   status via the prctl syscall.  This prevents disabling or corrupting the
   GCS shadow stack during runtime.
 
+* On AArch64 targets, log, exp, sin, cas, sinh, cosh, asinh, acosh, atanh
+  single and double precision special cases have been vectorized for SVE and
+  AdvSIMD, and vector variants of powr have been added.
+
+* On RISC-V targets, vector extension optimized variants of memcmp, memccpy,
+  memchr, memcpy, memmove, stpncpy, strcmp, strchr, strcpy, strncmp, strncpy,
+  strlen, and strrchr have been added.
+
+* On PowerPC, memchr optimized for power10 has been re-added.
+
+* Support for LoongArch32 has been added.
+
 * Pre-built ld.so.cache files can be installed with ldconfig.
 
+* Unicode support has been updated to version 17.0.0.
+
+* A new locale has been added: hrx_BR (Hunsrik language spoken in Brazil).
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * Although malloc and related functions currently return pointers
-- 
2.54.0



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