From 60a4783ed4bd0496f7eb31f9b7eb2ad10df46677 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:32:42 -0400 Subject: release 1.1.5 --- VERSION | 2 +- WHATSNEW | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION index 65087b4f..e25d8d9f 100644 --- a/VERSION +++ b/VERSION @@ -1 +1 @@ -1.1.4 +1.1.5 diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 869eb0dc..2a7e74c7 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -1330,3 +1330,41 @@ arch-specific bugs fixed: - broken struct stat st_dev field on big endian mips - broken asm register constraints in atomics on powerpc - missing barriers in atomics on mips, powerpc, microblaze, and sh + + + +1.1.5 release notes + +new features: +- full C11 coverage (threads, UTF-16/32 API, timespec_get, etc.) +- malloc_usable_size function (nonstandard) +- support for new F_OFD_* fcntl operations (linux 3.15, POSIX-future) +- new _DEFAULT_SOURCE feature test macro to request default profile + +performance: +- private-futex support +- redesigned cond var implementation with major performance improvement +- tweaked spinning in userspace before performing futex waits + +bugs fixed: +- failure of dn_expand to null-terminate name for crafted DNS packets +- corruption of cond var mutex state when switching mutexes +- use of uninitialized memory with application-provided thread stacks +- false ownership of orphaned mutexes due to tid reuse +- possible failure-to-wake for robust mutexes on owner death +- subtle errors in robust mutex unrecoverable status handling +- missing memory/compiler barrier spinning to obtain locks +- wrong behavior in various zero-length stdio operations +- buffer overflow in swab with odd argument +- incorrect sequence generation in the rand48 family of prng functions +- missing cancellation check in non-wait paths of sem_wait, pthread_join +- missing barrier in pthread_once fast path +- memory leak in regexec when input contains illegal sequence +- various parser bugs in regcomp +- wrong return value on overflow in some strtoul-family functions +- broken CPU_EQUAL macro in sched.h +- dlerror not working in static-linked programs +- mishandling of negative non-whole-hour TZ offsets +- incorrect case mappings for U+00DF +- namespace pollution via accidentally-non-static function named "dummy" +- missing __fpclassifyl and __signbitl definitions for ld64 archs -- cgit v1.2.1