From bd1f6eba8ca41994e7b7aefbe1513bd1b24f1279 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:00:02 -0400 Subject: release notes for 0.7.6 bugfix release --- WHATSNEW | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW') diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 55817aa9..2767e981 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -105,3 +105,27 @@ fixed pthread cancellation ABI on i386 to match the LSB/glibc ABI better double-free handling in malloc various minor bug fixes + + + +0.7.6 - major bug fixes + +fixed rare but serious under-allocation bug in malloc. + +fixed signedness bug in strchr that prevented finding high bytes. + +fixed serious parsing bugs in strtold. + +fixed statvfs syscall (it was always failing with EINVAL). + +fixed race condition in set*id() functions with threads (possible +deadlock). further audit still needed though. + +fseek no longer sets the stream error flag on failed seeks (this was +wrong and broke some programs, notably GNU m4). + +nl_langinfo is no longer a dummy function. (the functionality was +previously implemented but accidentally left unused). + +various small fixes have been made to the implementations and +prototypes for nonstandard and obsolete functions -- cgit v1.2.1