From 372a948b8139c6583045b2cd91b6b91fcb2e5881 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 03:20:08 -0400 Subject: release notes for 0.9.12 --- WHATSNEW | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 8442ee75..a192f56d 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -958,3 +958,42 @@ minor conformance bugs fixed: arch-specific bugs fixed: - x86_64 sigsetjmp clobbered the signal mask rather than saving it - misaligned stack when calling ctors/dtors (crashing on x86_64) + + + +0.9.12 release notes + +new feastures: +- zoneinfo time zone support +- PIE support on all supported archs +- named sub-archs for endian and float ABI variants +- improved support for non-root installs of the dynamic linker +- ability to selectively build only performance-critical modules with -O3 +- simple buffer overflow detection in free/realloc +- inet_ntop now presents v4-mapped addresses in ::ffff:a.b.c.d form +- ldd now reports libc and the dynamic linker in its output + +compatibility: +- support for new init/fini array (needed for ctors/dtors on newer gcc) +- C++ ABI fully matches glibc/LSB, at least on x86 +- many added ABI compatibility symbols for using glibc-linked libs +- support for STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbol bindings (found in some C++ libs) +- macros/types for new Linux kernel features in headers + +bugs fixed: +- crashes in scanf on literal mismatches (regression from adding %m) +- dl_iterate_phdr was passing invalid phdr pointers to its callback +- getaddrinfo with null host and AF_UNSPEC was failing to report IPv6 +- integer overflows in date/time conversion code +- misinterpretation of pre-1930s dates as post-2038 on 32-bit archs +- make install failed to install bits headers if make was not run first +- shm_open was wrongly cancellable +- low- or no-impact heap corruption in memalign +- explicitly running the dynamic linker on PIE programs did not work +- missing macros and sysconf for some supported POSIX option groups +- missing close-on-exec flags for several internal fd uses + +arch-specific bugs: +- wrong SIG_ATOMIC_MIN/MAX macros on x86_64 +- erfcl was missing on archs where long double is same as double +- broken dynamic-model TLS in static-linked arm/mips/powerpc programs -- cgit v1.2.1